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Question Anyone modeled or have high level TV antenna towers on their layout? - Ideas and advice on modeling or finding high TV towers for HO
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Offline Larry  
#1 Posted : 08 February 2013 07:00:20(UTC)
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Larry

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Growing up there were a number of very high red and white television antenna towers not far from my childhood home. In fact, the area is referred to by pilots and air traffic controllers as "TV alley". These giants had very slow blinking red lights in accordance with FAA rules to warn aircraft of their height and location. They also had guy-wires that stretched long distances.

Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/...F..._tower_guy_wires.JPG

Has anyone modeled these towers either individually or from a company? I believe Faller has done a little of this in HO scale.

While growing up, I always found the slow blinking red hazard warning lights to be ironically calming and of course reliable. It was always interesting to look at them to find the fog or cloud level. I think it would be very possible to model such with plastic pieces and LEDs.

Thanks!

Larry
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Online hxmiesa  
#2 Posted : 08 February 2013 10:36:55(UTC)
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hxmiesa

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Originally Posted by: Larry Go to Quoted Post
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/...F..._tower_guy_wires.JPG


Link doesnt work for me...
Best regards
Henrik Hoexbroe ("The Dane In Spain")
http://hoexbroe.tripod.com
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User is suspended until 24/11/2846 07:19:16(UTC) Bigdaddynz  
#3 Posted : 08 February 2013 10:41:54(UTC)
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Bigdaddynz

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I'm assuming Larry means this one:

UserPostedImage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-wire
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Offline GSRR  
#4 Posted : 08 February 2013 17:53:42(UTC)
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GSRR

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Do a search on this.


Busch 5965 sendemast



and this as an extra.

Faller 130966

http://www.ajckids.com/products/Faller/130966









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Offline Larry  
#5 Posted : 08 February 2013 20:00:29(UTC)
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Larry

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GREAT!

Thanks for the excellent help including with getting the pic to show up.

Larry
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Offline Western Pacific  
#6 Posted : 08 February 2013 20:59:41(UTC)
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Western Pacific

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When I was a young boy I lived in a block of flats and had a clear view of the TV and radio masts at Nacka, just across the water from my home town, the water being the inlet to Stockholm. These masts serve the Stockholm region with TV and radio signals and they have been modernized several times during my lifetime.

I have no plans to make models of them. A photo may explain why:

Nackamasterna

These two masts are 299 metres tall, in other words in H0 they would be approximately 3.44 m and the floor to ceiling height of my train room is around 2.3 m.

As a side note, I don't get my TV signals from there. I live in and own a house being part of a townhouse development from the mid 1960-ies and the home owners association has installed cable from one company back in 1989 and I have had "fibre to the home" installed last year from a telephone company in order to get faster Internet and cheaper fixed line telephone (over IP) and it turned out to be even cheaper to get a "triple play" subscription including digital TV from the telephone company. I get roughly the same channels on both cables, but the digital picture quality is better and I get some HD channels.
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