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Technical Topics => Equipment => Topic started by: PirateSWL on February 13, 2017, 2225 UTC
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Today we had extremely high winds here in New York. Unfortunately one of WRKL's Antenna Towers collapsed during the storm. The tower had been leaning a little bit for the past several months after one of the guy wires snapped. No one was injured in the collapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRKL & http://wrkl.org/
(http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u361/PirateSWL/image_zpswbghbjka.jpeg)
(http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u361/PirateSWL/image_zpsilf5lf98.jpeg)
(http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u361/PirateSWL/image_zpsdmpnsblm.jpeg)
(http://wrkl.org/images/towers.jpg)
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It looks as if they've let the maintenance go for a long time. There is a second tower that doesn't look long for this world either.
The station has run ethnic/polish format (I'll spare you the jokes) and in my experience, the ethnic guys usually don't maintain stuff very well.
Sad.
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