Here is a case where getting two for the price of one is not a good deal. In July of 2006, a Chinook helicopter
struck the 1000-foot transmission tower for television station
WFXL, in Albany, GA. The tower had to come down because it posed a risk to the
WALB tower standing next to it. Experts were called in. The
WFXL guy wire charges went off as planned (visible in the video) and things were going well... until a wire from
the collapsing antenna got tangled on the WALB tower guy wire. Well, that's one way to take care of the
competition.
Demolition of the WFXL Tower... 2 for the price of 1
Check out this video of ice
falling from a 1,600-foot tower in Oklahoma...
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in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide
me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing
my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet)
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