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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Michael, just a ballpark. What does one of those babies cost?
Obviously putting up one in the middle of nowhere costs more, but most of them go up in the middle of no-where. I doubt there are many in downtown Chicago.  |
Today's dollars, 5-6 mil a pop. Depends on the amount of RF electronics as well. Single HPAs can easily cost a buck twenty five to a quarter mil. each.
You'd be surprised. 9M (half the size of those babies) go up on the tops of scrapers easy peasy.
Anyone driving through Rapid City has probably seen that antenna that I was riding.
Funny story,, The very next day after that picture was taken, I had an old boy drive up to the site, get out of his truck just to tell me through the chain link that if he ever saw that thing pointed at his house (he lived across the freeway and up the hillside) he was going to start putting holes in it with his Model 94!
I told him "Yessir!" and kept on working!
