New WMTV-15 and WBUW-57 Tower

1 - 5/28/04 - 12:46 You can see a tower rigger about halfway down the tower. In this view the new tower is behind the old tower.	2 - 6/01/04 - 16:30 Done for the day, the tower riggers descend.	3 - 6/01/04 - 16:30 Enlarged view.
4 - 6/05/04 - 15:23 Working on a Saturday. The current tower is about 1000' in height. These views are southwest of the towers.	5 - 6/05/04 - 15:24 A new section was just placed on the tower.	6 - 6/05/04 - 15:24 You can see tower riggers in the center of the enlarged view.
7 - 6/05/04 - 15:30 You can see two of the riggers on the tower.	8 - 6/05/04 - 15:44 They are working on shifting the crane.	9 - 6/05/04 - 15:44 You can see one of them on the right, working on the crane, in this enlarged view.
10 - 6/05/04 - 15:50 The crane has been lifted to the new position.	11 - 6/05/04 - 16:28 They lift two (assembled into one) of the wave guides.	12 - 6/05/04 - 16:30 You can see it to the right of the crane.
13 - 6/05/04 - 16:32 One of the tower riggers climbs on top of the wave guide.	14 - 6/05/04 - 16:32 Enlarged view.	15 - 6/05/04 - 16:34 The wave guide is swung around, with the rigger still on top of it.
16 - 6/05/04 - 16:34 Enlarged view.	17 - 6/05/04 - 16:36 The wave guide is swung into the tower and joined to the top of the existing wave guide.	18 - 6/05/04 - 16:36 Enlarged view.
19 - 6/05/04 - 16:47 The views are closer and from the northeast side of the towers.	20 - 6/05/04 - 17:13 A new section is being lifted into place.	21 - 6/05/04 - 17:16 Halfway up the tower.
22 - 6/05/04 - 17:19 Just short of the crane.	23 - 6/05/04 - 17:21 As the section moves to the top of the crane, it can be heard scraping the side of the crane.	24 - 6/05/04 - 17:21 Enlarged view.
25 - 6/05/04 - 17:23 The riggers move the hoist cable so that the section can be swung around.	26 - 6/05/04 - 17:23 Blowup view.	27 - 6/05/04 - 17:27 The section is being swung around.
28 - 6/05/04 - 17:27 Blowup view.	29 - 6/05/04 - 17:28 The section is aligned to the tower, one foot at a time.	30 - 6/05/04 - 17:28 Blowup view.
31 - 6/05/04 - 17:29 You can see one of the tower riggers working on the first footing.	32 - 6/05/04 - 17:29 Blowup view.	33 - 6/05/04 - 17:37 The section is now in place.
34 - 6/05/04 - 17:37 Blowup view.	35 - 6/06/04 - 13:44 The finale stack of sections.	36 - 6/06/04 - 13:45 Another section being lifted into place.
37 - 6/06/04 - 13:45 Blowup view.	38 - 6/06/04 - 13:46 The finale stack of sections, from the other side.	39 - 6/06/04 - 13:46 The last piece in this area is marked #59, though 60 is the last section before the T-bar.
40 - 6/06/04 - 13:47 A stack of the cross pieces that have to be added between each section.	41 - 6/06/04 - 13:48 Some of the rolls of antenna feeder cable for radio stations, etc. Notice that the one of the right is for the FBI.	42 - 6/06/04 - 13:49 Stack of misc. hardware. There always has to be stacks of the small stuff.
43 - 6/06/04 - 13:50 The construction yard.	44 - 6/06/04 - 13:51 The latest section is in place.	45 - 6/06/04 - 13:51 Blowup view. Notice the location where the guy wires will be attached. Look carefully and you can see a couple of the tower riggers.
46 - 6/06/04 - 13:58 You can see one of the tower riggers looking over the top, which is about 920 feet up at that point.	47 - 6/06/04 - 13:58 Blowup view.	48 - 6/06/04 - 14:06 View of one of the upper guy wire anchor posts.
49 - 6/06/04 - 14:08 Closer view.	50 - 6/06/04 - 14:08 Looking toward the towers from the guy wire ground location.	51 - 6/06/04 - 14:13 Look carefully and you can see the base of the new tower.
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

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