Breaking: Troop H lost it's tower

[scannerowner]

42.4 is still working for me...

 

[rabidmoose57]

Troop H

Still getting a good signal here in town on 42.400....any word on when the new tower at HQ goes up,or if it goes up at all?

 

[talkpair]

The loss of reception was pilot error on my end.

Looks like the replacement tower will go up for bids, according to the article in the St Joe Post.

Storm Topples MSHP Tower | St. Joseph Post

 

[iamhere300]

It is not like this is a "new" thing for MO HIPO. No different than the Troop G tower collapse a few years back. No big financial catastrophe etc. Just doing business.

 

[FireMedic36]

Work to begin on new tower soon

Work is to begin on the new 320' self support tower in the next month or two - should be finished by the end of summer.

 

[talkpair]

Someone should make one of those time-lapse videos of the new tower going up.

 

[FireMedic36]

I'll see what I can do...

 

[FireMedic36]

Breaking ground on the new tower next Tuesday, 7-17-2012.

 

[FireMedic36]

Tower is going up! Sorry, couldn't arrange a time-lapse video...

 

[talkpair]

Tower is going up! Sorry, couldn't arrange a time-lapse video...

Not a problem.

I wonder if the plan is to move 42.4 back home to the new tower ?

 

[kb0nhx]

Yes, 42.400 will be back there ASAP - and at > 2kw! MoSWIN what??

 

[scannerowner]

Will it be linked with other MOSWIN Sites? Odd!!

 

[FireMedic36]

Yes, 42.400 will be relocated back to the new tower...

 

[talkpair]

Yes, 42.400 will be back there ASAP - and at > 2kw!

cool....I'll watch for the 'glow' just above the western horizon.

 

[Thunderbolt]

When the Michigan State Police took down a similar low band (42 Mhz) tower down at MSP HQ a few years ago, it took about three days of riggers, steeplejacks and a monster mobile crane to take it down. That one was a hot tower originally, setting on insulators...I was sorry to see it go..(hmm I'll have to look for my pics)..

Are you talking about the transmitter tower in Okemos, Michigan that had 2kw transmitters on 37.10, 42.58, 155.37, and 155.865 MHz?

73's

Ron

 

[FireMedic36]

Tower was topped out yesterday, 8/20/12. 320' at the top...

 

[nd5y]

Is it the same type as the old tower?

 

[FireMedic36]

No, the old tower was 4-legged completely angle steel tower. The new tower is a 3-legged solid round steel tower.

 

[nd5y]

Yeah I remember the old one real well. Back when I was in grade school about 40 years ago I lived near Ashland & Gene Field about 3/4 mile SW of there. I think sometime in the late 80's or so they rearranged the antennas and had all but one pointing NE. That may have been before they had the fill-in transmitters.

 

[talkpair]

No, the old tower was 4-legged completely angle steel tower.

It kinda reminds me of the lookout towers I used to climb on vacations in southern Missouri as a kid.....except the lookout towers had stairs, but didn't have the flashy paint job.

Yeah I remember the old one real well. Back when I was in grade school about 40 years ago I lived near Ashland & Gene Field about 3/4 mile SW of there. I think sometime in the late 80's or so they rearranged the antennas and had all but one pointing NE.

Tom:
Here's some pics I found a while back when I was looking for something else:
Radio Towers of St Joseph Mo
I don't know how old the pictures are, so there may have been changes made since then.

There's even some pics of the KQTV tower before its height was reduced.