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    Well they sure aged well!

    Speaking of the roof, here's a pic from my church in NYC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N2NH View Post
    Well they sure aged well!

    Speaking of the roof, here's a pic from my church in NYC.

    Must be a pretty big church.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    Must be a pretty big church.

    Not OF my church, FROM my church. It was on the 40th floor and on a clear winters day you could see well into Rockland County...

    Not quite the roof, but a few floors below and much warmer. The neighbors were making a lot of noise putting up that new World Trade Center.
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    I wonder what would happen if someone were to clip a feedline to a tower on the GWB and tune up....
    Encrypt everything. Even if you have nothing to hide. It increases the noise floor.

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    He'd end up talking to Rich Little posing as the ghost of George Washington.

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    Peter: What?
    Quagmire: Peter, that's not Ronald Reagan. That's Rich Little! [to the ham radio] You're Rich Little!
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    Rich Little: [imitating Johnny Carson] Ah, well, uh, you know, Ed, the kids say you gotta go viral to promote yourself these days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by N2NH View Post

    Not OF my church, FROM my church. It was on the 40th floor and on a clear winters day you could see well into Rockland County...

    Not quite the roof, but a few floors below and much warmer. The neighbors were making a lot of noise putting up that new World Trade Center.
    I don't quite understand. I take it that the "church" is not an actual conventional church building but is part of a large building in which a floor of the building is used as a church.

    In the early 90's I used to work on the 34th floor of the building on the corner of 57th street and 3rd ave. I really liked that job. And it was great. What a view. Except on rainy days when we were literally in the clouds. And I used to get some awesome vhf/uhf coverage from up there.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    I don't quite understand. I take it that the "church" is not an actual conventional church building but is part of a large building in which a floor of the building is used as a church.

    In the early 90's I used to work on the 34th floor of the building on the corner of 57th street and 3rd ave. I really liked that job. And it was great. What a view. Except on rainy days when we were literally in the clouds. And I used to get some awesome vhf/uhf coverage from up there.
    The Church was on the 40th Floor of 250 Greenwich St. Nice views but you didn't notice that after the first visit. The message was that compelling. Wasn't a week that went by that I didn't learn something. That's what church should be like. They were also open to all. One of three things I miss about NYC is going to that church. The other two are Greek Moussaka and Fish & Chips.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W7XF View Post
    I wonder what would happen if someone were to clip a feedline to a tower on the GWB and tune up....
    The paint would probably mess up the SWR. OTOH, on the bigger suspension bridges like the GWB and the VZ, the towers are about 800 feet up and the base is grounded in Salt Water. Word is a ham working on the VZ talked to DC on 2 meter FM from the top of the tower with a HT.
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    Bridge towers are vertical real estate. You'd be surprised how many antennas and equipment rooms there are on the gee dub including a long story about what happened to a long neglected 2M repeater run amok that took years to find. Oh and please don't call it the GWB... most of us would like to forget... Mister Stupid.
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    Last time I crossed the GWB the toll was $35. Couldn't believe it.
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