Looking for HO Radio station towers

[Deane Johnson]

If you wanted to make a tower out of metal, you could find an old RF signal generator and actually use it to autentically broadcast a signal from from the tower.  Simply connect the "hot lead" from the signal generator to the tower, and the other lead to ground and you're a radio station owner.

If you had to use plastic for the tower, I should think you might be able to run a thin wire up the center and let it be the antenna.  Not quite as authentic as using the actual tower for the radiator.

You could record record music and voice, giving your layout a set of call letters, run ads for your local model businesses, etc., and feed it through the RF signal generator.   Have an AM radio playing in the room with programming from your layout radio station.

We're talking AM here, not FM.  FM is a different breed of cat.

[gdelmoro]

Thanks Maxman,

I like the Bush tower but I think I can build it for a lot less.

[gdelmoro]

Little Timmy

Several year's ago, I made 3 Flatcar load's of Radio antenna's.

Try using this...

https://plastruct.com/product-category/structural-shapes/open-web-trusses/

Other than scratch-bashing them yourself, I dont see any other way of getting them. I dont believe there are any kit's of radio tower's.

I do recall that Lionel made a ready to use tower of some sort.....

 

These are great! Thanks.  I model HO so I don’t think the Lionel would have worked anyway.

[maxman]

Some images: https://www.google.com/search?q=ho+scale+radio+tower&client=firefox-b-1-ab&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjsfqcnNnaAhXst1kKHaYjDpgQsAQIJg&biw=1323&bih=693

A Busch item: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Busch-Transmitter-Mast-With-Red-Blinking-LEDs-5965-HO-Scale/152980782986?epid=2254908446&hash=item239e5d7f8a:g:914AAOxyOalTZVne

A BLMA item: https://www.amazon.com/blma-models-scale-radio-antennas/dp/b000z5wfj4

Build it yourself video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r271UYWgPc0

 

[BigDaddy]

Like locos and rolling stock, vintage is always better.

 

[RR_Mel]

Train Cat makes brass etched towers as well as great signals.

 

The owners wife passed and I’m not sure if he’s there at this time.  His kits are outstanding quality and detail.

 

http://www.traincat2.com/

 

Check the menu on the left side of his web sight “Radio Towers”.

 

I made my own radio tower about 20 years ago from brass ladder stock.

 

 

Here is a link to my blog about my radio tower.

 

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_23.html

 

 

 

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

 

[Little Timmy]

Several year's ago, I made 3 Flatcar load's of Radio antenna's.

Try using this...

https://plastruct.com/product-category/structural-shapes/open-web-trusses/

Other than scratch-bashing them yourself, I dont see any other way of getting them. I dont believe there are any kit's of radio tower's.

I do recall that Lionel made a ready to use tower of some sort.....

[gdelmoro]

Hi I would like to install a three tower radio station like we have here in NJ like the WABC AM station.  I can’t find any models.  Any ideas?