Re: A Group of Towers in Acton

[Jibguy@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/16/00 5:45:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Greetings:
    I was curious about those 13 towers too, so one day about 7 years ago, I 
walked that area, enteringfrom a residential neighborhood behind the towers, 
and walked around.  Towers are about 140' tall, resemble AM towers, but also 
some elements of short-wave broadcasting.  From what I've heard, those are 
low frequency AM (perhaps 350 kHz) (possibly)-government emergency-use 
towers.  However, I did not see any "US Property - No Trespassing" signs 
anywhere around.  -    While we're on the topic, about 8 miles SE of 
Manchester are three 140' (or so) towers in a row off of a busy north-south 
road, not far from the airport.  Look very much like AM-station towers but 
they are obviously not, since we all know which towers belong to which 
stations up there.
----jibguy (Bob Bittner) 

psherman@ma.ultranet.com writes:
<< 
 There is a cluster of of perhaps 15-20 short (unlit) towers near the
 Acton/Concord line, between Rtes. 2 and 2A just west of the Concord rotary.
 They have horizontal wires strung between them, so my first thought was that
 they might be shortwave towers, but there are no shortwave broadcasters in
 this area. They are in and amongst a grove of fir trees, too, which is
 unusual. Does anyone know anything about them?
  >>