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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Gerhard Hickl <[email protected]>
> Subject: LF: MF-Antennas taken down in Austria
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010, 21:28
> Hello group!
>
> I know, it's a little bit "off topic" but if anyone is
> interested:
>
> 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
> 600kW.
>
> 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".
>
> The site name of the two antennas is "Bisamberg" or maybe
> "Vienna,
> Bisamberg" and if someone is interested, please search on
> the web.
>
> There are a lot of infos and even the video of destroying
> the antennas
> by explosions today.
>
> 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
>
> OE3GHB
>
> Gerhard
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