[aprssig] WX and Wind and mountain tops...

[Chris Rose]

A friend of mine works with a developer who bought
some of these properties.  They are removing the old
feed horns and projector antennas off the towers to
mount new systems on and lease the space to new
businesses.  They are in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Chris 
KB8UIH


--- "Bogdan, Rick" <rbogdan at ursinus.edu> wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> Have you ever visited this site?
> http://www.drgibson.com/towers/
> 
> We looked into wind power when we bought this house
> 5 years ago, but after a
> on-line survey it would take almost 15+ years before
> any payback would be
> seen.  So, we have gone this route, replace the 20
> year old appliances, oil
> furnace, with the most efficient equipment
> available.  The payback was seen
> almost immediately. For an example we went with a
> tank less (on demand)
> propane hot water heater, which has cut our oil
> consumption by almost 1/2.
> 
> A little off topic, sri.
> 
> 
> Rick ka1udx
> http://wepages.ursinus.edu/ka1udx
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Bruninga [mailto:bruninga at usna.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:19 PM
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Subject: [aprssig] WX and Wind and mountain tops...
> 
> Squirrels chewed through my entire APRS WX station
> stuff years ago, and so I
> am pondering whether to re-weather or.... not? 
> 
> Since my current interest is beating the 72%
> electric rate hike looming this
> summer due to deregulation, I have been looking at
> the cost of wind
> generators.
> Interesting to note that a 400W wind generator is
> only about twice ($599)
> what a new WX station costs... 
> 
> I'm considering  spending my $$$ on getting back
> some pennies rather than
> just watch the wind go by...  Just wish I lived
> somewhere where there was
> more wind....
> ARGH....  Oh well...
> 
> Or more sun..... or more running water...
> anything...
> 
> Oh, this weekend, hiking a mountain trail in West
> Virginia came across a
> HUGE microwave site with concrete building and huge
> tower that was all
> cleaned up and really looking spiffy...  looking
> more closely there were
> for-sale signs from a local real-estate agent. 
> Offering:
> 
> 5 acres of mountain top land, concrete building,
> 10,000 KW diesel generator
> 115 foot tower (suitable for building an entire
> house on top
> with a 360' view)... etc....   Oh well...
> 
> But the sign had a big SOLD across it... so I didnt
> jot down the number.
> But now I wish I had called to see what it sold
> for....
> 
> I had made a post a few years ago here about how
> American Tower was selling
> of hundreds of old microwave sites since that are
> now obsolete with all the
> fiberoptics...  so if you like the hermit life style
> and like high places,
> and dont mind living in the middle of nowhere...
> look around..
> 
> The American Tower site no longer has a for-sale
> list.  So I guess
> real-estate speculators have picked up most of them
> and are now re-selling
> at higher prices...
> 
> Bob, WB4APR
> 
>