According to the below website, the (now-demolished) R&D tower for this
Omega system was in Forrestport, NY and was just a few miles from me. I
didn't know what it was at the time (assumed military, of course) but I
had driven along a country backroad to within about 300 feet of the
base. The road went past the tower, under some of the guys. That was
one big monster - a thing of beauty :)
I'm curious; the local TV coverage of its demolition was "gee-whiz" but
said little about the uses of the "Omega" system. Since it was Navy
funded, I assume long-range, low-frequency (submarine?) communications?
Anyone know?
Mike N2MG
> -----Original Message-----
> From: N3GPU [SMTP:pelliott@flash.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 11:23 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Demolition Site
>
>
> Intersting discussion & pictures of a tower demolition (this one done
> on
> purpose) -- 1201 foot, 310 ton radio tower on a ceramic base insulator
> in
> Argentina. Go to:
>
> http://www.controlled-demolition.com/cdi.html
>
> and under the 1998 press releases click on the link for the Omega
> Tower,
> Trelew, Argentina.
>
> Paul N3GPU
> N3GPU Web Pages http://www.flash.net/~pelliott
>
>
>
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