After many many months I FINALLY have a tower and antenna for my new station!  If you’ve been following the story, I recently received a building for this station as well.  It’s good to finally see some tangible progress.  I can’t wait to have the station constructed and on the air after almost 3 years of hurdles!  I hadn’t expected the shipment to arrive TODAY but gladly drove up to the site to receive it.  While I was waiting for the truck to arrive, I took some photos of the site.

The site is currently covered in thermal tarps held down with tires.  Here are the three piers that the tower will attach to.  One is seen with bolts slightly sticking out from beneath the tarps.

The foundation for our 12x20x9 building…Our pole mount for the satellite dish is temporarily sitting in the middle of the concrete pad but will be secured to its proper location once things begin getting assembled on site.

We actually have power service on site now too!  Everything is in place for the building and tower to be put on site early next year…

It’s here!  One semi truck loaded with tower, antenna and transmission line…

Electronics Research Inc (ERI) supplied all components for the project.
They are a highly respected name in broadcast towers and antennas.

That’s a LOT of steel!  And this is only a 145′ tower…

125′ of 1 5/8″ Heliax transmission line, including connnectors

Eight antenna bays and various related hardware…

A forklift will be required to offload the tower components…They’re HEAVY!
RSC out of Scottbluff, Nebraska happily obliged.

It’s quite the dance unloading this stuff!  Two semis and a forklift on site…

Tim from RSC masterfully maneuvers the forklift to offload one of the tower sections…Charlie from ERI looks on with a watchful eye…

Two of the lower sections on the ground and ready to be stacked at a later date…

The upper sections of the tower…Note the wood to keep the sections from freezing to the ground…

One tower on the ground and waiting to be assembled…

Loading the Heliax into the construction trailer for storage on site…

Nice and secure in the construction trailer, waiting the day when it will be strung up the tower!

Tim and Charlie offload the antenna bays from the truck for storage in the trailer.  These bays aren’t terribly heavy but the boxes make them extremely bulky.  The trailer was JUST large enough to store all eight of them along with the transmission line and associated hardware.