Re: 1200 in Meffa

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 08:00 AM 11/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Since we're on the topics of towers in Meffa...question for the techies:
>
>Aren't tower lights supposed to be on 24/7?  One afternoon, while killing
>time to pick up my daughter from pre-school, I noticed that the tower lights
>on one of the sticks behind the Wellington Plaza weren't on.  Later on, when
>it became very cloudy...the lights came on.  Is that through light sensors,
>or are they affected by the station changing to a night time pattern?
>
Hasn't been true for as long as I've been a radio freak, which dates back to
the 40s. Photocells are very old technology. Stations use them to sense the
ambient light level and switch on the tower lights when it gets dark outside
for whatever reason.

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