New WMTV-15 and WBUW-57 Tower

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508 - 8/22/04 - 20:03	509 - 8/22/04 - 21:47	510 - 8/22/04 - 21:48 Cropped view.
511 - 8/22/04 - 22:00	512 - 8/29/04 - 20:13	513 - 8/29/04 - 20:14 Cropped view.
514 - 8/29/04 - 20:16	515 - 8/29/04 - 20:16 Cropped view.	516 - 8/29/04 - 20:21
517 - 8/29/04 - 20:41	518 - 8/29/04 - 20:45	519 - 8/29/04 - 20:48
520 - 8/29/04 - 20:49	521 - 8/29/04 - 20:58	522 - 8/29/04 - 20:59
523 - 8/29/04 - 21:00	524 - 8/29/04 - 21:01	525 - 9/03/04 - 21:35 Cropped view. A beam has been placed between the old tower and the new. You can see one of the crew on the beam, which is 3.5" wide.
526 - 9/03/04 - 22:08 You can see tower crew and supplies being lifted to the level of the beam. Why is the beam there? It is to support the old tower when it is being taken down. When the guy wires on the old tower are removed, the tower needs support.	527 - 9/03/04 - 22:09 Cropped view. Beau believes that was him on the beam during the time I was shooting these images.	528 - 9/03/04 - 22:09 Cropped view. John is the other rigger on the tower at the time.
529 - 9/03/04 - 22:10 Cropped view.	530 - 9/03/04 - 22:13 Cropped view. Beau is walking back to the old tower after going over to the new.	531 - 9/03/04 - 22:13 Cropped view. You can see Beau on the old tower, as well as John.
532 - 9/04/04 - 21:15 Cropped view. Another view of the support beam. The beam will be lowered as the tower is taken apart.	533 - 9/04/04 - 21:16	534 - 9/04/04 - 21:16
535 - 9/04/04 - 21:17	536 - 9/04/04 - 21:18	537 - 9/04/04 - 21:19
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541 - 9/04/04 - 21:38	542 - 9/04/04 - 21:39	543 - 9/04/04 - 21:41
544 - 9/04/04 - 21:52	545 - 9/04/04 - 22:00 All three of the top guy wires were disconnected from the ground anchor points.	546 - 9/04/04 - 22:01 They will be temporarily moved to a lower level tomorrow. Then the first pieces of the old tower will be taken down.
547 - 9/04/04 - 22:03 These images are of the leg C guy wire.	548 - 9/04/04 - 22:12	549 - 9/04/04 - 22:14
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