{"id":3159,"date":"2011-06-27T19:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T23:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-04-30T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T15:26:57","slug":"so-you-call-this-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/so-you-call-this-work\/","title":{"rendered":"So, you call this work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A trip to the WSPK<\/a> transmitter site on a pleasant day, or, one could say, another day at the “office.”  Tower painting season is here, I’ll post some more about that later.  This is a nice set of pictures from the top of Mt. Beacon<\/a>, in Beacon, NY<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hudson<\/a>
Hudson Valley looking north from Mt. Beacon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

South Mount  Beacon with the old fire tower:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mount<\/a>
Mount Beacon looking south at the old fire tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tower farm; two TV stations, Media Flow, one radio station, three translators, several cell carriers, one paging company, some government two-way gear, and a few microwave relays. \u00a0The 320-foot guyed tower in the center holds the main (top) and backup (bottom) antennas for WSPK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mount<\/a>
Mount Beacon Tower Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tower climbers ascending a 320-foot tower. \u00a0This picture (and all the others as well) was taken with my HTC smartphone camera, proving the old adage, sometimes it is better to be lucky than good:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tower<\/a>
Tower workers on 320 foot guyed tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

View from the ATC site at the very top of North Mount Beacon of the tower workers painting the top of the tower:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tower<\/a>
Tower workers painting torque arms on 320 foot guyed tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another view from the ground:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tower<\/a>
Tower workers on Mt Beacon tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All in all, not a bad day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A trip to the WSPK transmitter site on a pleasant day, or, one could say, another day at the “office.”  Tower painting season is here, I’ll post some more about that later.  This is a nice set of pictures from the top of Mt. Beacon, in Beacon, NY. South Mount  Beacon with the old fire … Continue reading So, you call this work?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60,19],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fm-tower","tag-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11779,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}