WRNI

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

I rarely see any postings on this list from Rhode Island 
correspondents. If anyone from the Ocean State 
(expecially someone from the northwest part of 
Providence or thereabouts) is lurking, I have a question.

WRNI 1290 has apparently been running 10 kW at night for 
quite a few months. If I remember correctly, the new 
night pattern and power require one of the array's three 
towers to be about 30 ft from its nearest neighbor, 
which is still used in the day array and has to stay 
where it has always been. As far as I know, the towers 
are guy supported and are just under 200' high. Putting 
two guy-supported towers so close to each other, though 
not impossible, sounds tricky (guy wires crossing very 
close to each other, etc).

At first I thought that the idea was to get the night 
array working at 10 kW and then apply for 10 kW-D using 
the same three towers as are in the new night array. 
But, apparently, that isn't what will happen (or isn't 
what has already happened). WRNI has been granted a CP 
for 10 kW-D using the original three towers. So can 
anyone tell us whether the WRNI site now has four 
towers, two of which are very close together? If so, did 
construction of the fourth tower make it necessary to 
take down the nearby existing tower and construct a 
replacement having guy anchors at points different from 
those used for the original tower?

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