{"id":1161,"date":"2009-02-02T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T02:14:13","slug":"sutro-tower-now-has-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/sutro-tower-now-has-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutro Tower now has a website!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/files\/flickr\/2967847926_8ab3744b3a_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_8235-42\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sutro_Tower\">Sutro Tower<\/a>, the 3-pronged behemoth that sits on a hilltop in the geographical center of San Francisco, now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sutrotower.com\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The coolest part about the site, other than the <a href=\"http:\/\/sutrotower.com\/about.html\">listing of what radio and TV stations originate from the tower<\/a> and the status of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sutrotower.com\/conversion.html\">DTV conversion<\/a>, is this graphical representation of what antennas are currently operating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sutrotower.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sutrotower.com\/common\/images\/status-1text.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lower level auxiliary antennas are activated when the main antennas on top are being serviced, causing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sutro.org\/\">all sorts of problems<\/a> for nearby residents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sutrotower.com\/\">SUTRO TOWER &#8211; Official Site of Sutro Tower, Inc.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sutro Tower, the 3-pronged behemoth that sits on a hilltop in the geographical center of San Francisco, now has a website. The coolest part about the site, other than the listing of what radio and TV stations originate from the tower and the status of the DTV conversion, is this graphical representation of what antennas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/sutro-tower-now-has-a-website\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sutro Tower now has a website!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,164,51],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emi","tag-rf","tag-san-francisco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-iJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1988,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/sutro-tower-no-longer-transmitting-analog-television\/","url_meta":{"origin":1161,"position":0},"title":"Sutro Tower no longer transmitting analog television","author":"Jeff","date":"June 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of the nationwide DTV transition, on Friday, June 12th, Sutro Tower ceased all analog television transmissions by powering down the three main analog TV antennas atop San Francisco's iconic three-legged broadcast radio tower. 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