Dishes In Anchorage

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Dishes In Anchorage

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Check out this webcam, if you will:

http://www.acsyellowpages.com/webcam.htm (you can get a 1280x960 if you click on the picture, but it's not necessary)

Sure, there appears to be an FM on that not-particularly-tall building on the right, but I'm much more curious about those dishes in the bottom of the picture.

The website says the camera is pointing north, but, after more time than I care to admit, I've determined that it's pointing a little west of north and that the dishes belong to Anchorage Fox station KTBY. The two dishes pointing toward the camera are actually pointed straight southeast, which is easily understandable.

My question is about the third...the one pointed straight northwest. What's that one likely doing?
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Listening in to conversations in the building?
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Big windstorm, loose bolts.
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Arp2 wrote:Sure, there appears to be an FM on that not-particularly-tall building on the right, but I'm much more curious about those dishes in the bottom of the picture.
Judging by the R-L maps, 100kw will get you about 30 miles in that terrain, very asymmetrically.

That mountain shot is awesome. Reminds me of how Mt. Rainier towers over Seattle from about 60 miles away...
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K-Rock wrote:That mountain shot is awesome.
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I got wired out over the silliness of red and white obstruction marking paint on that 50 foot radio tower until I realized it was (maybe) a railroad crossing gate.

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