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Platform Closeup from the ground
This is a distant (1/4 mile) shot of the platform at 805ft. You can see our cabinet on the right side of the photo. This will be the future home of the Riverview Site.
Date: 12/08/2009
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Equipment Cabinet
The list of what is in the cabinet is long, click on the photo for a full explaination.
Date: 12/08/2009
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Watch the first step....
The elevator that goes up the tower is about the size of a phone booth. When you get to your destination, you have a "small" step to climb over to reach the platform.
Date: 12/08/2009
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NI4CE-11 Weather Station
This weather station is at 50ft on the icebridge. The icebridge at this site is a huge superstructure that's purpose is to prevent falling debree (or ice up north) from damaging the feed lines leaving the building on their way to the base of the tower.
Date: 12/08/2009
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The backside of the cabinet...
This photo shows the back of the power supply. The 26ah battery to the left on the bottom is to hold the system up while the generator starts. The box on the right is the 24v power supply for the cabinet environmental controls.
Date: 12/08/2009
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Bringing it all in the cabinet...
When you are on a tower such as this one, you have to do quality work matching what the commercial guys will do. This just shows the detail in just getting coax into the cabinet. For size reference - the coax is 1/2" hardline - the leg of the tower
Date: 12/08/2009
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ATC Broadcast Tower - Riverview
This is a perspective shot of the Riverview ATC broadcast tower. This tower has a elevator that goes to the top! The face of the tower is 12 feet wide.
Date: 12/08/2009
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We are here.....
a know when you go into a mall they have the "you are here" markings on the map. Well here is the "2pm shadow" of the tower. You'll note where we are similarlly <grin>.
Date: 12/08/2009
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Lower 70cm UHF Antenna
This is the lower 70cm UHF antenna. This is our transmit antenna for UHF. A TX/RX combiner system allows us to run the 442.550 analog and 442.425 D-Star digital voice repeaters on the same set of antennas.
Date: 12/08/2009
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220 Link Antenna
This is the 1.25 meter VHF 220mhz linking antenna aimed at Pebbledale.
Date: 12/08/2009
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Upper 2 meter VHF and 70cm UHF Antennas
This is a view showing the west side of the tower, you can see the 2 meter antenna on the left that runs the NI4CE-12 APRS Digipeater and the upper of the two 70cm UHF repeater antennas, this one being for receive.
Date: 12/08/2009
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View of Downtown Tampa
From 805ft, on a clear day, as this was, you can clearly see Downtown and beyond.
Date: 12/08/2009
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