Andrew Johnson-Schmit aka Coyote Radio finally went live this evening at 1610 on the AM radio dial. My way of congratulating Andrew -- a Celebration of Antennas. Can't think of a better time or reason to post the antenna pictures I've been collecting. Just wish I'd been there when he added one more on the top of The Raven building.
The radio station is just the beginning of the realization of an 8-year long dream of Andrew's. But I'll let Angie, his wife, tell you all about it
here and
here.
As you can see, I've been collecting antenna pictures from all over: Mt. Elden north of Flagstaff ... Tower Mountain down by Crown King ... Yarnell Hill, plus a lot of local broadcast electronics below. Unfortunately, I haven't been near the arrays up on Mt. Francis for many years.
These heavy-duty antennas overlook Willow Creek Road.
The fellow above and those drum-like thingies below are downtown resident. If I had an idea of their function (beyond propagating electronic waves), I'd include it here. I just like their other worldly appearance, especially the mountaintop arrays.
And I haven't been down in the desert where, I read, the ubiquitous cell phone tower comes disguised as a sahuaro cactus or palm tree. My mother has lived to nearly 104, in good mental/physical shape after years with my father's 10-meter radio ham arrays -- so I really don't worry about RF radiation like the guy I'm
linking to here simply because he has several great pictures of cellphone tower camouflage. Further:
Wayne's World has an excellent article on the natural history of cell phone trees.
Andrew Johnson-Schmit aka Coyote Radio finally went live this evening at 1610 on the AM radio dial. My way of congratulating Andrew -- a Celebration of Antennas. Can't think of a better time or reason to post the antenna pictures I've been collecting. Just wish I'd been there when he added one more on the top of The Raven building.
The radio station is just the beginning of the realization of an 8-year long dream of Andrew's. But I'll let Angie, his wife, tell you all about it here and here.
As you can see, I've been collecting antenna pictures from all over: Mt. Elden north of Flagstaff ... Tower Mountain down by Crown King ... Yarnell Hill, plus a lot of local broadcast electronics below. Unfortunately, I haven't been near the arrays up on Mt. Francis for many years.
These heavy-duty antennas overlook Willow Creek Road.
The fellow above and those drum-like thingies below are downtown resident. If I had an idea of their function (beyond propagating electronic waves), I'd include it here. I just like their other worldly appearance, especially the mountaintop arrays.
And I haven't been down in the desert where, I read, the ubiquitous cell phone tower comes disguised as a sahuaro cactus or palm tree. My mother has lived to nearly 104, in good mental/physical shape after years with my father's 10-meter radio ham arrays -- so I really don't worry about RF radiation like the guy I'm linking to here simply because he has several great pictures of cellphone tower camouflage. Further: Wayne's World has an excellent article on the natural history of cell phone trees.
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