GREAT STEEL TOWER
PIONEER AMERICAN STATION. A new antenna being erected for the pioneer broadcasting station of America, WGY, of Schenectady, has some novel features.
It is a steel tower weighing a hundred tons which will be balanced on a single porcelain insulator, and 13 miles of copper strip will be used as an earth, buried in strips radiating from the base of the tower. A flashing red beacon is being placed at the top. It will be switched on and off automatically by means of a photocell according to the state of the light,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 5
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95GREAT STEEL TOWER Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 5
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