Due to NCAA regulations requiring equal numbers of sports scholarships for
women as men many universities have done away with football all together.
Their stadiums sit idle for as many as 50 or more weekends a year. I know
this is the case for most of the Missouri Valley Conference Schools.
When I was an undergrad at Wichita State those light poles looked like
incredible antenna mounts. The stadium now hosts less than four events a
year.
Does anyone know how much those 100 foot plus un-guyed poles would cost?
The structures at WSU look similar to the giant poles you see at interstate
interchanges only they seem much heavier.
73,
Joe kk0sd
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve W2ML
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 7:49 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Stadiums as Tower/Contest Locations
> Roger K8RI)
>
> I wonder, if properly approached, stadium management would allow
hams/contesters
> to set up semi permanent, or perhaps permanent towers/antennas or to use
existing
> tall structures at the stadiums for antennas and contest operations?
If you are talking about stadia that host the NFL or other professional
sports,
keep in mind that 70,000 - 90,000 people are there for sporting events on
the
same weekends that contests are held.
I passed this concept past the people who run Giants stadium at the
Meadowlands in
New Jersey and host 5 professional sports teams during the year. They
thought
I was joking.
College stadia may be a possibility, but they, too, make a great deal of
money on
football during the fall contest season.
While the towers and lighting grids look wonderful for ham antennas, if it
doesn't
make money for the venue, the chance of getting in to use the place for
contesting
rests solely on the coincidence of a ham being in a management or key
position at
the venue.
Many places I visited, when I was traveling with Monday Night Football,
would have
made wonderful anchors for long wires/dipoles, but all the hams on the crew
could
do was dream about it.
Of course, TowerTalk rule #1 applies here.... YMMV.
-73- Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML
President, North Jersey DX Association
Game Day Frequency Coordinator, New York Jets
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