<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>About the only connection I can make between WLW's Blaw-Knox Tower and Quad Videotape recording is that the term Quad could be applied to the number of faces on the tower.</div><div><br></div><div>Making my way today from Columbia, MO through Louisville, KY and then north through Cincinatti toward Latrobe, PA, I had to pass through Mason, OH on I-71.</div><div><br></div><div>The WLW Blaw-Knox is very easy to spot from the freeway, and I had to check it out.</div><div><br></div><div>Turns out it was worthwhile, as riggers are in the process of replacing the 747 foot tower's guy wires. I spent about 45 minutes walking along the fence shooting pictures of the site, tower, some of the process. </div><div><br></div><div>I'll post some pix as soon as I have time, and try to print a few for perusal during our Quad Videotape Group Annual Dinner at AMIA, this Tuesday night, Nov. 2. Also of other B-K towers at WBT-AM, Charlotte, NC, that are also uniquely visible from a Charlotte freeway near the airport.</div><div><br></div><div>At WLW, the guy wire project seems to be in the early stages. While I was watching, it looked like they were connecting sections for and hoisting the first guy to be replaced, so others wanting to more thoroughly document the process appear to have several days in which to do so. It would be interesting to know whether other guy wire replacements have been done since the tower was erected in 1933.</div><div><br></div><div>WLW, 700, Cincinnati, was once licensed to use 500KW of power for normal operation. </div><div>Details on Jim Hawkins' website, here: <a href="http://hawkins.pair.com/wlw.shtml">http://hawkins.pair.com/wlw.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>Details about Blaw-Knox towers is here: <a href="http://hawkins.pair.com/blaw-knox.html">http://hawkins.pair.com/blaw-knox.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>