TV Broadcast Towers & Transmitters (photos, vids)

[stampeder]

Our coverage of the Lyon Mountain TV tower collapse of WCFE PBS HD (which serves Southern Quebec/Montreal regions) begins here:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=51210

in post #153:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?p=537428

[HDTV101]

I found this on YouTube... wow what I tall tower it is.

[john33]

Lived near that tower for years. Its perched near the edge of the niagara escarpment - so the camera views almost rival the CN Tower !

[mille]

i was wondering if OTA digital technologies are more "fragile" than the old analog one ( transmitters , control rooms , etc ) ?

do we have to expect technical problems after the transition ( feb 09 ) ?

[stampeder]

From everyone I've ever spoken to in the TV station transmitter business the feeling is that the new digital equipment is so much smaller and does not need the big air and water cooling of the analogue transmitters or the electrical power either. The ATSC standard is still very new so many people are having to learn the latest technologies. The PSIP standard is terribly hard for newcomers to learn, so that has been one of the really tough parts about the transition.

I hope that we can get some comments here from our members who are actually out there every day trying to get all this working.

[Billsmith]

The new CICT Global Calgary tower is under construction beside the old one on the Old Banff Coach Road:

[Billsmith]

The new CICT Global Calgary tower is under construction beside the old one on the Old Banff Coach Road:

[PrinceLH]

I was down to the United States, in the Watertown, NY, area this weekend. Since many of you folks, have picked up the three Watertown stations, when the summer ducting season was happening, here is the gift. Pictures of the actual towers for you to see where it was coming from.


WWNY Transmitter.


The top of the tower, looking south. Notice the channel 7 VHF antenna at the top and just below it, on the west side, notice the new WNYF channel 35 Low power antenna.



WWTI, channel 50(21), near Copenhagan, NY.



Something to get you guys up near Ottawa and the west end of Lake Ontario to contemplate over the winter months, as we wait for DXing time again.

[PrinceLH]

A couple more Pic's.


Channel 7 and 35, from a distance, looking east, on Champion Hill, near Carthage.



WWTI, channel 50(21), near Copenhagan, NY. The tower is less than a 1/4 mile from WPBS, in the background, looking west.


WPBS channel 16(41) near Copenhagan, NY, looking southwest.

[Wharfe]

thanks for these!! I love tower pics

[PrinceLH]

Decided to go away and see the changing of the colours, in the Adirondack Mountains. Since I was driving through the area, I decided to get pictures of those towers. The Watertown locals are in a unique area, when it comes to ducting. All are near the Adirondack's, on small mountains and close enough to Lake Ontario to make a difference. Many in the Ottawa Valley and the Golden Horseshoe have had the pleasure of picking up these stations on good DX days. These channels are about 82 miles from me, here in Belleville, Ontario, and they are as rock solid, as any other U.S. locals that I can receive. If they only had an NBC affiliate, it would be perfect.

[stampeder]

Shot from the CN Tower lower deck, one or both of these antennas belong to OMNI TV in Toronto, and the building is First Canadian Place:



Home to these present and future OMNI stations:

ON 	Toronto 	OP	44	CJMT-DT 	INDE 	433856	792254	314.3	15000	650.00	 
ON 	Toronto 	AL      44	CJMT-PT 	 	433856	792254	303.7	1000000	650.00	 
ON 	Toronto 	OP	69	CJMT-TV 	INDE 	433856	792254	314.3	500000	800.00	Z
ON 	Toronto 	OP	64	CFMT-DT 	INDE 	433856	792254	314.3	15000	770.00

[Tom.F.1]

Nice shot. 47 is at CN tower, not first Canadian place.
The rest of the antennas are FM's. CBC and Rogers.

[stampeder]

Here's another shot of them taken from the upper observation deck, but the plexiglass windows on the CN Tower combined with the image resizing and jpeg compression kills a lot of the detail:

[Wharfe]

Here are a couple of the CJON (NTV) tower in Newfoundland. Sorry for the poor quality. I also have some of the CBC tower but they're not worth posting, not very good views. I've explored all kinds of tower sites but only ever had my camera phone along to take pics.