Dan’s Pulpit April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Dan’s Pulpit April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Dan’s Pulpit April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Dan’s Pulpit April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Dan’s Pulpit April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Balanced Rocks April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Balanced Rocks April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Balanced Rocks April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Balanced Rocks April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Balanced Rocks April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Balanced Rocks April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Balanced Rocks April 22, 2014T. Gardner

Dave and MattDan’s Pulpit

My feelings as a scientist are that this test as a measure of tower visibility is badly flawed. It is designed to measure the amount of line sight of coverage or contact a radio tower will have with a receiver and its overall reception area, not the visibility and aesthetic effects such a tower will have on a landscape. To measure tower visibility and aesthetic affect the balloons would need to be the size of the top of the radio tower and have streamers the width of the radio towers every 2 feet of tether. Additionally, this would need to be done not only during the day, but at night to measure the tower visibility and aesthetic affect when the tower lights are most visible. Basically, a 3 foot diameter balloon represents perhaps 5% of the actual tower dimensions and does not include the lights and other key factors in making a tower of this type visible across a landscape.