Nope. Thats untrue. You can elect to strobe the tower during the day, and use either the white strobe or red lights during night, and NOT have to paint the tower, even if over 200 feet.
Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] tower lighting >I use to build communications towers for a living, and what you say about > the strobe is true. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bryan Scott > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:30 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] tower lighting > > Rick Harnish wrote: >> My understanding (no research done) is that if there are strobe lights >> installed, the towers do not have to be painted red/white. Therefore, > many >> tower companies are installing strobes to cut down on maintenance > (painting) >> of their towers. A night/day system which incorporates strobes during >> the >> day and red lights at night should be adequate since no one can see the >> red/white paint at night anyways. > > Over a certain height they have to be painted, no matter what (according > to our local AM tower tech). I think it's around 200 feet. > > -- Bryan > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
