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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:16:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: ALAN MELIA <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: LF: MF-Antennas taken down in Austria
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Hi Gerhard, yes maybe vandalism but you check out the cost of maintaining=
 and insuring towers like that today and you will see why they had to come=
 down....the same reason as the 250m towers at GBR Rugby were felled.

Alan G3NYK


--- On Wed, 24/2/10, Gerhard Hickl <gerhard.hickl@aon.at> wrote:

> From: Gerhard Hickl <gerhard.hickl@aon.at>
> Subject: LF: MF-Antennas taken down in Austria
> To: "rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org" <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010, 21:28
> Hello group!
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> I know, it's a little bit "off topic" but if anyone is
> interested:
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> Today two big MF-Antennas (585kc and 1674kc) located very
> closely to
> Vienna had been taken down. The smaller tower was 120m high
> and the
> other about 265m. The latter was the highest man-made
> object in Austria
> until today 14:00z. The power of the transmitters was up to
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> I don't know about other countries but at least in Austria
> MF is "dead"
> since several years. If you talk to younger people, they
> hardly know
> what you mean by "MF".
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> The site name of the two antennas is "Bisamberg" or maybe
> "Vienna,
> Bisamberg" and if someone is interested, please search on
> the web.
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> There are a lot of infos and even the video of destroying
> the antennas
> by explosions today.
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> I don't appreciate this senseless act of destruction and in
> my opinion
> in was a wrong decision by the responsible people. But, as
> always,
> nobody asked me.
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> Cheers and 73
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> OE3GHB
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> Gerhard
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