Damn Internet!!

You never know what you will find on the Internet. In doing some very generic net surfing a couple of weeks ago led me to a web page I had never heard of. Heck I couldn't even read it since it wasn't in English. But this is what I saw with a caption that had 4 letters in a certain order I understood instantly, WGHP:

Most if not all of you do not recognize this picture and that is OK, really. But I recognize it since I see a similar sight all of the time. It is a distant pik of our towers. I then see another picture taken from a moving vehicle of a group shot of ALL of the towers down our way. Further investigation shows the site is in German and has pictures of ALL of the big towers used by radio and TV stations in the market.

I run the site through Google translator and see this site is done by an individual and he has gotten public information about all of the towers. On his site he has chronicled mostly European broadcast sites and the only American sites are here in the Triad. I don't see a name but there is an email address so I send him an email inquiring who is he and why is he taking pictures of our towers.

Several days go by and then I receive a very nice email from a Walter Brummer from Austria. He is a mechanical engineer who enjoys towers and his company has business here in the Triad and on one trip he was coming from Charlotte and took a side trip and wound up going by all of the towers south of town. On a return trip he went to the towers and took pictures of all of them and documented how the USA does broadcasting.

He had some incorrect information about some of the towers so I corrected him and then invited him to contact me on his next trip to the Triad. He thanked me for the corrections and said on one of his next trips, one in December and then another in January or February, he would try and look me up. Who knows, I may have found a new friend. This damn Internet!!