I've noticed the same thing at my work place. We have a 400FT tower painted in
the red/white configuration. At night it has red lights and then switches to
white strobes during the day.
73, Stew K3ND
--- On Wed, 4/21/10, Larry Burke <wi5a@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> From: Larry Burke <wi5a@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Lighting
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 8:50 PM
> You may have just answered one of the
> great mysteries of my morning commute.
> Recently a 2000 foot commercial tower was erected not too
> far from where I
> live. It has BOTH flashing red lights and strobes, but they
> do not run at
> the same time. At daybreak the reds go off and the strobes
> go on. At dusk,
> the opposite takes place. Two other nearby 2000 footers
> have strobes on
> 24/7. None of these towers is painted red/white. So it
> sounds like it's
> legal to run strobes during the day but not red lights....
> and strobes are
> required during the day if there is no red/white painting?
>
>
> This still does not answer the question why the new tower
> has two lighting
> systems. Why not just run strobes all the time and not
> bother with red
> lights at all?
>
> Larry K5RK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of D Calder
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:30 PM
> To: 'Tower and HF antenna construction topics.'
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Lighting
>
> Not legal. You can't leave them on all the time. I'm
> assuming these are red
> only incandescent at night
> and this tower is painted red/white for daytime?
>
>
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