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Old 07-11-2023, 06:53 AM
kf4rca kf4rca is offline
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There's a modern glass elevator at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in downtown Atlanta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1LDAK4r4I
There's a rotating restaurant at the top called the Sundial. But I understand they turned off the rotating after a serious accident.
Our station had a microwave relay on the top (2 GHz in and 13 GHz out) for ENG uses. Other stations had equipment there too.
From time to time we had to reset the controller up there and it was an odyssey to go there. It was so busy in the daytime, you might wait an hour to get an elevator. And then there was the nightmare of parking.
So our guys would go down there in the middle of the night when it wasn't quite so busy.
An added little bit of excitement was if you had to get on the roof. There was so much RF up there that when you opened the hatch, it would pull a 2 inch arc! But I never felt anything.
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