The Most UGLY TV Tower in the WORLD!

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For more than six decades, these towers have been a subject of wonder and controversy for the residents of this city. Despite their towering presence, many locals remain clueless about their actual function, often confusing them.
In this video we unveil the hidden history of them, reveal what's inside them, and discover what the future holds for these fascinating landmarks, the radio/TV towers that have caused a stir in the community for years!
First Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania/Luke Tscharke
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@RingwayManchester Год назад

Absolutely brilliant video Hayden and a great Avenue you’ve gone down here. Loved it

@LB0FI Год назад

I can almost pinpoint the inspiration here.

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Thanks Lewis! Glad you enjoyed it

@andz23 Год назад

The good thing about big transmission towers in Germany is that almost all of them have a lot of hamradio services (e.g. repeater, digipeater or HAMNET links) e.g. DB0TVM. This is due to a law after WWII that all public financed transmission towers have to support hamradio.

@vk4vip День назад

As someone who works for Broadcast Australia in VK4, it is quite cool to see a little short doco on the Mount Wellington Site

@HamRadioDX День назад

Awesome mate! I've visited that site over 10 years ago. Been trying to gain access for about the same length of time, but hard to get in the door. We have an amateur repeater located across the road (but having the 2nd site would allow us to fix some problems we have there).

@CentralCoastAmateurRadioClub Год назад

What a cracking video! The perfect balance of high level information as well as detailed on certain topics. Well done!

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it thanks!

@lowrybrock8272 Год назад

Thank you for the really interesting video. We have a problem with NIMBYs here in the states too. That stands for Not In My Back Yard. They seem to really like the services the towers bring but don’t want to SEE the towers. I really enjoy seeing videos about towers and transmitters. Your video reminded me of a Ringway Manchester video, well researched and well presented. I enjoy seeing tower videos from other countries and see how they place broadcast and other antennas. Cheers from Florida. Really enjoy your channel. 73 from K4RUR.

@DrJatzCrackers Год назад

Nice video Hayden. Thanks for some of the inside shots. I had been hoping to get a tour of either of these two sites but haven't so far. An ex-Telstra tech once told me that the original PMG tower at one point wasn't correctly bolted to the slab/ground. Wind causing oscillations in the tower had loosened bolts which held the tower to the ground/slab, one bolt completely undone and the other very loose. I don't know how true that story was but given the wind the mountain gets, it really wouldn't surprise me. Would love to see a video on the Mt Barrow facilities or even the Ralphs Bay MW site, with their histories, etc. Would also love to understand the engineering behind how the TVT-6 engineers got TV to the west coast back in the day (when it was identified on air as TVT-6!) Keep up the great work Hayden. Love seeing stuff in my home town.

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Thanks Rob! Yes if this video is successful I might look at Mt Barrow

@nikpresservk3ba779 Год назад

Excellent video, Hayden. Top job!!

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it Nik 👍

@tech160s Год назад

Great video Hayden!!

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Thanks glad you enjoyed it

@Tank6883 Год назад

Really enjoyed this video, Hayden. Thanks.

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it thanks for watching 👍

@K5YVY Год назад

Great work Hayden, enjoy it 👍

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Thanks 👍

@leftymuller Год назад

The Tower on the right is the WIN tower, the one of the Left is the BA tower both at Mt wellington Hobart Tasmania

@philtuckerm0dpk212 Год назад

Great video. Thanks for making it.

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@VK7DBX Год назад

Great video 😊

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Thanks! 😊

@Wayne_VK3ECS Год назад

Great video as always Hayden. Back in the "Good Old Analogue Days 😊" my partner & I used to have a house on the Victorian mornington peninsula right on Western Port Bay & in the right conditions Chnl 9 Hobart used to wipe out Chnl 9 from Mt. Dandenong in Melbourne's East some times for hours at a time. I beleive that there are several commercial links from atop of Arthurs Seat to Mt. Wellington in Hobart. Thanks Hayden & keep up the great work. Rgs Wayne VK3ECS.

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Thanks Wayne! Yeah I’m always interested in hearing about those old tropo stories. Mt Barrow in the north is obviously the one that gets heard the most with Mt Wellington only occasionally. Once I was staying in Ararat and I happened to tune to 100.9 in Hobart and could hear it clear as a bell from the car! I also worked several VHF repeaters in Tassie from there too

@shanehean1 Год назад

It would have been Ch9 from Launceston, not Ch6 from Hobart!

@Wayne_VK3ECS Год назад

Thanks Hayden@@HamRadioDX my son ( knows you Tim VK1TTY ) regularly worked Tassie 2M repeaters from his previous place in Sale I might have to take a drive upto Arthurs Seat one day & try my luck at getting into Tassie. In the mean time keep up the great work& look forward to your next video. Rgs Wayne VK3ECS.

@jameski5oeb668 Год назад

Neat video!

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Thanks James

@LB0FI Год назад

Awesome, and interesting, even though I have no connection to the area. Well done!

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@demolitiondavedrillandblast Год назад

Hi Hayden (David VK3KCX) I have some more footage of the old tower be demolished somewhere, taken by a friend that worked on the project.

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Cool that would be great to see David!

@temporarilyoffline Год назад

Pretty neat!

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Very!

@the_mad_swimbaiter455 Год назад

I'm from the usa but found this fascinating

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Thanks mate

@dougtaylor7724 Год назад

It’s a protected area UNLESS the government wants a tower.

@CamVK3SWL Год назад

I was recently in Tasmania and went to Mt Wellington and tried to make some contacts on 2m and 70cm with my handheld, it's pretty much a no RF zone at all, repeaters are hard to crack and there is interference galore everywhere which make it hard to hear anything at all! I did get great pictures of the towers though!

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Actually, it’s improved recently.. I was up there doing some work on our amateur radio repeater and we had just put a new antenna up, plugged in the 705… worked a treat, worked lots of people around town and repeaters up north. If you have a Baofeng or something with a super wide front end then yeah it’s toast

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Oops I forgot to clarify why it’s improved. They stopped transmitting on Band I VHF, so less noise on 6m and I think switched off some UHF transmitters too

@CamVK3SWL Год назад

Thanks for the info! I was up there on the 10th of January and tried the repeater with my Baofeng that that was listed on repeaterbook as being up on the mountain. When I finally got to speak to some locals on some repeaters around Hobart I was informed the repeater was down for a few years. Great to hear that you are working on it Hayden!

@HamRadioDX Год назад

Cool, yeah been off for maybe 9 months or so. We also decided to move it from UHF to VHF, so that’s going to be interesting. If you go back on my channel a few videos ago, I show the repeater being modified on my workbench

@Ardren Год назад

Great video. "...would like to see them removed when there is an alternative technology that means they're not necessary." - There are *lots* of things I'd like to be removed when they are no longer necessary too 🙂

@45auto Год назад

My thoughts have been provoked. Interesting stuff, Hayden.

@davidcoupe8097 Год назад

They have no idea some people where all there Radio, TV, NBN and Mobile Phone comes from. We had afire in the in Warrnambool and took out phone and internet a few years ago and it was like going back in the dark age. Unable to get money out of the bank. No point of sale EFT. Mobile's phone came back after a few days. Mt Clay Portland has multiple towers on it. Main Tower ABC, SBS, and the Commercial Stations Radio and TV. I have to go there for BIA. to wind down the power on the FM Radios when the riggers are climbing the tower. Will be back there again some time this year for 5G install. Plus any call outs for BAI.

@richarde735 Год назад

Tampon Tower 🙄

@Brandon-h2z Год назад

Kind of unexpected how tyrannical Australia is.

@HamRadioDX Год назад

I wouldn’t say tyrannical… just opinionated

@pieterdutoit9642 Год назад

AAHHMMMM hand held radios is bad stuff no filtering and no shielding the best get messed up every where AAAGGGG (boofeng ) mostly all hand helds do have that problem even the best ,73 Pieter

@nesbo7578 Год назад

And, of course, we know the ugliest tower of them all…

@HamRadioDX Год назад

😂

@dave6501 Год назад

Thank-you for the video. Unfortunately we have millennials here too. They want everything but do nothing; and Yes that means having paid nothing think they own the Galaxy "oh that tower knock it down i don't like it..." Not knowing what it's for or how it works or who's using it. Yes they want "their" internet, but everyone else can go to blazes. Keep the towers the services they provide are needed and actually important to society. We need TV, radio, and communications; some of which is free over the air legal transmissions. Thank-you for your good public service.

@tristanmills4948 Год назад

Unfortunately we have boomers too. They want to keep everything from their children and think they own the galaxy. Not caring that they destroyed everything which gave them their wealth, and their millennial children are the first generation to have less wealth than their parents. All the while complaining about things which irritate them like radio towers (it was the 90s when complaints started remember), mobile phone masks, and whatever the right wing press tells them.