The strange thing about that antenna is that it is not really up that
high. It does look like an HF log though. Maybe the employees had a
ham radio club there.

Ever see the 100 or so foot high tower a guy has in his 30 ft x 30 ft
backyard near 11mile road and Schoenerr? The tower base must cover
half the yard. Would cut down on grass mowing.

Jim

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:59:38 -0400, (RM MS) wrote:

Anybody here from southeast Michigan? On Van Dyke near 15 mile Rd.,
there is an Ameritech Building on the east side of Van Dyke. It has a
HUGE rotatable beam, probably log-periodic and all-band. I am guessing
the main boom is over 60 feet long. Has anybody else seen it? I wonder
what they would be using a HF antenna for? It looks a lot like the
antenna near Bethany OH, if that is any help. I am also guessing this
antenna is out of use nowadays. I used to monitor High Seas phone
traffic, but never realized there may be a receiving station in our
vicinity. Also used to hear Great Lakes phone services on HF and got one
of their very last verifications around 7 years ago, them telling me
they were being supplanted by cell and satellite services. Possibly this
was part of a similar network.