New WMTV-15 and WBUW-57 Tower

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52 - 6/06/04 - 14:15 Ground crew. But notice the edge on view of one of the sections. There isn't much space to crawl around in. It must have been a bitch building the first tower, which is even smaller.	53 - 6/06/04 - 14:18 Another view of the latest section now fully in place. Looks like there is a tower rigger on the crane.	54 - 6/06/04 - 14:23 A closer view of the base of the new tower. Taken at a point to the left of the truck in image #43.
55 - 6/06/04 - 14:25 Wave guides.	56 - 6/06/04 - 14:26 One of the tower riggers getting the crane ready to lift to the next location.	57 - 6/06/04 - 14:26 Blowup view.
58 - 6/13/04 - 12:55 Wire rope (guy wire) spools used for the latest install.	59 - 6/13/04 - 12:56 More sections in another section of the lot, 50 and 47.	60 - 6/13/04 - 12:58 New guy wired is attached to the anchor post.
61 - 6/13/04 - 13:00 Looking toward the truck used to "pull" the guy wire.	62 - 6/13/04 - 13:01 Looking up the guy wires toward the tower.	63 - 6/13/04 - 13:02 Closeup view of the truck.
64 - 6/13/04 - 13:04 Closeup of the guy wire spool.	65 - 6/15/04 - 17:52 Tower rigger on the crane.	66 - 6/15/04 - 17:52 Blowup view.
67 - 6/15/04 - 18:05 Coming down for lunch?	68 - 6/15/04 - 18:05 Blowup view.	69 - 6/15/04 - 22:46 Getting ready to come down after a long day. The tower is now about 1010' in height.
70 - 6/15/04 - 22:46 Blowup view.	71 - 6/15/04 - 22:47 Another shot of getting hooked up for the ride down.	72 - 6/15/04 - 22:47 Blowup view.
73 - 6/15/04 - 22:48 Coming on down.	74 - 6/15/04 - 22:49 Blowup view. Notice the three waveguides within the structure.	75 - 6/15/04 - 22:49 Still coming on down.
76 - 6/15/04 - 22:46 Blowup view.	77 - 6/15/04 - 22:55 The Tower riggers, who are (left to right): Stacey B., John W., Jason H., David B., Jake H. and Nathan R. Jake is the newbie, as this is his first tower job.	78 - 6/15/04 - 22:57 New tower from near the footing.
79 - 6/15/04 - 22:58 Relaxing after a day's work, eating chocolate chip cookies.	80 - 6/15/04 - 23:01 The rig that controls the crane and hoisting equipment/riggers.	81 - 6/15/04 - 23:04 The next spool of guy wire, already laid out on the ground. Two more sections to go up and then they wait for the guy wire pins.
82 - 6/15/04 - 23:05 The previously installed guy wires have now been torqued.	83 - 6/15/04 - 23:06 View of the tightened guy wires.	84 - 6/17/04 - 18:08 The new tower now towers over the old tower, at about 1050'.
85 - 6/17/04 - 23:17 Nice view of one of the newly installed guy wires. The pins came in in the morning. Three of the riggers are heading out, back to Arkansas.	86 - 6/17/04 - 23:21 Among all of the other guy wires, you can make out the shiny new, slack, guy wires. There are six sections (120') left to be stacked on the tower.	87 - 6/17/04 - 23:22 If you look carefully, you can see a couple of the slack guy wires. Once they are tightened by the three remaining guys, there will be some down time until next Wednesday, as they are waiting for more bolts and crossmembers.
88 - 6/18/04 - 17:54 They have started torquing the guy wires. This was shot during lunch.	89 - 6/18/04 - 17:55 View of the slack guy wire.	90 - 6/18/04 - 17:56 Another view. Not exactly a nice day.
91 - 6/20/04 - 18:47 Beautiful day. The sun is just right so that the top three guys wires can easily be seen.	92 - 6/20/04 - 18:50 Pieces that will go on top of the tower arrived the same day they were installing the guy wires. See image 111 for details as to where these pieces will go.	93 - 6/20/04 - 18:51 More pieces that will be used to make the T-bar.
94 - 6/20/04 - 18:52 Still more pieces.	95 - 6/20/04 - 18:52 The last of the pieces.	96 - 6/20/04 - 18:54 All three guys wires are now torqued, finished on the 18th. Notice the picnicers on top of the wire spool. Little League baseball games were happening at this time.
97 - 6/20/04 - 18:55 Looking up the guy wires. The picnicers are now done.	98 - 6/20/04 - 18:56 Closeup view of the guy wires going toward the tower.	99 - 6/22/04 - 18:21 By noon local time, two more sections were added. Supposidly three of the riggers aren't due back until tomorrow. Didn't get a chance to go over and check.
Notes: There are up to six riggers working up in the tower. The very bottom section is 16' and is one foot AGL. The next six sections at the bottom are about 26.667'. Each remaining section is 20'. The T-bar is 11'. Currently scheduled date for antenna sticks to be installed: 8/1/04. The antennas will be hoisted into place. One of the copper signal feeders will carry channel 15. The other copper feeder will carry a combined 19 and 32 (DTV). The waveguide will carry channel 57. Original images are 2560x1920 - TIFF (5 Mpixel) Starting with the 6/15/04 images, they are 3264x2448 - TIFF (8 Mpixel) Enlarged views are 720x540 cuts Blowup views are 360x270 cuts enlarged to 720x540 The EXIF value for the time the shots were taken is CST, not CDT Starting with the 6/15/04 images, the EXIF value for the time the shots were taken is GMT