TWiRT 54 - Empire Smoke

A BlackBerry app that's - cool?  Seems so.  And what, exactly, caused a failure and burnout on the Empire State Building early this week?  Chris Tobin explains what's going on where King Kong played.

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York, W2TRR
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

TWiRT is sponsored by Axia Audio.  Over 2,000 IP-Audio consoles on-air worldwide.

One of many elements of the Alford FM antenna on the Empire State Building. Photo by Doc Searls

Most of the ESB antennas are shown here including FM, TV, and other services. Photo by Doc Searls

Show notes:

Changing the beacon on the Empire State Building

Photos and info about the FM transmission facilities on the Empire State Building

Old information about antennas on the Empire State Building.  A photo of a small portion of the Alford FM antenna is shown in one photo.

From Doc Searls, a collection of photos of the antennas on ESB.

Electronics Research, Inc. (ERI) - the company that designed, built, and is repairing the burnout of the FM Master Antenna on ESB.

Chris Tarr's Pick of the Week: HistoricalAerials.com

Chris Tobin's Pick of the Week:  TuneIn Radio app for BlackBerry

Kirk Harnack's Pick of the Week: Port Forwarding Tutorials and Info

Download the show here...

TWiRT 54 - Empire Smoke

Update on Friday, October 22, 2010 at 11:26PM by Webmaster

Mike Fitzpatrick posts some terrific photos of the Empire State Building's tower and antennas, as well as the FM RF infrastructure inside the ESB.

Comments

[Matthew Sibson]

You can see how the tower light shot came together here: http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2009/05/26/getting-high/

[Mike Fitzpatrick]

The shot of the Tom working on the antenna, looking down "from above" on the ESB, was shot by Vincent Laforet, who was unharnessed during the photograph. It was taken in January 2000. The other worker with Tom Silliman was ERI technician Deke Johnson.
A really good quality version of the photo is here:

The photoblog about it, is here:

--Mike

[Mike Fitzpatrick]

The shot of the Tom working on the antenna, looking down "from above" on the ESB, was shot by Vincent Laforet, who was unharnessed during the photograph. It was taken in January 2000. The other worker with Tom Silliman was ERI technician Deke Johnson.
A really good quality version of the photo is here:
laforetvisuals
The photoblog about it, is here:
laforetblog
--Mike
(Corrected HTML coding in this post, hence the dup. ~ Mike)