Is Alternative Lighting the Answer to Tower-Related Avian Deaths?
With towers being blamed for as many as 50 million birds deaths annually, Joelle Gehring, Ph.D., a biologist with the Michigan Natural Features Inventory in Lansing, MI, and other conservation groups are set on resolving the problem, according to the Christian Science Monitor.  MORE

Falling Towers Make Big Noise in California
A single point failure caused the new KFI tower to fall March 15 in La Mirada, CA, according to the Orange County Register. While nobody was killed on the tower, one worker was knocked from the construction platform when the structure fell. MORE

Cell Towers -- Afghan Carriers Face Catch 22
Since the Taliban attacked 10 cell towers in Afghanistan causing $2 million in damage, four major mobile phone companies began cutting nighttime service across the southern part of the country, according to the Associated Press. As a result, a quarter million customers, who have no other telephones, have expressed their anger.  MORE

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Microwave Frequency Counters
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