This is a list of all the measurements I have made in Brandon FL, the
"evidence" points strongly to the TV towers in Riverview. I believe
that something changed there in early August there to create all of
this awful mind-rattling low frequency noise.

Jolted awake (AGAIN) Aug 31, 2009 at 2:20 AM, so I jumped out of bed
to do some more readings. Whoopee.
I was barely asleep anyway, since it rumbles most of the day/night
when I am home, and hurts my ears a great deal of the time!
After being driven to distraction by this noise/vibration that people
(that cannot perceive it) tell me is not there,
I am trying to catalog all the data I have on it:
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These are some of the locations that I have taken readings, always in
the middle of the night/early morning, because the sound is masked by
the sounds of cars/trucks, I cannot hear it during the day with all
the noise.
(And you can stand in the middle of the street at 4 AM in the morning
here too, with caution.)

Sample Location 01 (church parking lot near intersection of Bell
Shoals and Brooker Road)
27°54'32.61"N 82°16'9.92"W
190 degrees South-Southwest

Sample Location 02 (Brooker Rd, halfway between Lithia Pinecrest Road
and Valrico, on side of road)
27°54'29.33"N 82°15'16.11"W
195 degrees South-Southwest

Sample Location 03 (Intersection of Lithia Pinecrest Road & Valrico
Road)
(I went to this location because I suspected a nearby cell tower, but
at the time I checked, the sound was definitely coming from the south-
southwest, not the nearby tower, although the nearby tower did make a
subtle humming noise)
27°54'14.52"N 82°15'10.26"W
205 degrees South-Southwest

Aforementioned cell tower near Lithia Pinecrest Road and Valrico Rd
(I will mention this later too)
27°54'19.12"N  82°15'18.09"W
owner: HILBRANDS WILLIAM H AND BEA C, probably leases tower land to
cell phone company.

Sample Location 04 (Past towers on Boyette Road)
27°50'7.56"N 82°15'3.76"W
310 degrees North-Northwest

Sample Location 05 (intersection of Fishhawk Boulevard & an unfinished
road, between Boyette Rd and Osprey Ridge Drive)
27°51'12.09"N 82°15'26.48"W
245 degrees West-Southwest
(I can see the towers from here, but the sound appears slightly to the
right of them! I believe it is bouncing off a building under
construction)

Sample Location 06 (Insurance Agent Parking lot corner of Bryan and
Bloomingdale Rds)
27°53'39.03"N 82°16'39.78"W
180 degrees due South



(I believe that the very low frequency sound bounces off/around the
surrounding trees and terrain, skewing the sound direction perception.
This same effect occurred in the past, when I heard the power plant
noise.
But as long as I followed the "trend", I found it.
Sadly, I think that the signal strength has increased, further
allowing me to follow the trail.
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(The towers are located south of the intersection of Boyette Road and
Fishhawk boulevard, you cannot miss them. There are a lot more than
the 4 I mapped here.)
tower01
27°50'56.11"N 82°15'48.23"W
owner: TIITF/DEPT OF EDUCATION
(TIITF = Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund)

tower02
27°50'51.56"N 82°15'49.48"W
owner: FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC

(On Google Earth, Towers 1 and 2 are labelled WUSF-FM, WUSF-TV, and
WEDU)

tower03
27°50'32.83"N 82°15'45.02"W
owner: MEDIA GENERAL OPERATIONS INC, TAMPA BAY TELEVISION INC

tower04
27°50'26.33"N 82°15'46.83"W
owner: MEDIA GENERAL OPERATIONS INC, TAMPA BAY TELEVISION INC

(On Google Earth, Tower 3 is labelled WTTA-TV, WFLA-TV, WFTS-TV, WFTT-
DT
Tower 4 is not labeled.)


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After I got home, I heard the sound from the Northwest too! :-O
Maybe these large towers are communicating with smaller cells
receivers/transmitters at newly allocated frequencies/power levels??
I get the feeling, (especially at the cell tower at Valrico Rd and
Lithia Pinecrest Road), that these are related.

My best guess is that it is some sort of digital signal transmission
in bursts.
The power of the signal heats the air, the heated air changes air
pressure quickly (sound), the very low frequency sound travels, slams
into structures, and now you have vibration. If the power is high
enough, you get long distance transmission of very low frequencies (5
Hz- 15Hz or something like that, I wish that I could record it?)

Could it be the HDTV signal itself, I do not think so, because it is
louder at night,
and the sound is almost identical to the northern sound. (maybe there
is another big tower northward that I didn't locate.)
Some sort of digital burst transmission method, why all off a sudden
did it get so bad???
Maybe the post-HDTV conversion reallocated some of the radio
frequencies (after the June end-of-analog-TV.)

But that does not explain the earlier sound/vibration, maybe they were
testing it??
I need to find out if something was added to one of those towers!
Tower 3 appears to have the some sort of triangular structure on top..
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Summary:
1) July 30, 2008 vibration detected, continued (and increased) until
late December 2008, then sound added and vibration worsened.

2) Late December 2008 until early August 2009, determined to be NEAR
I-4 & McIntosh Road, north Brandon.

3) Early August 2009 sound/vibration direction completely changed, and
worsened.
(up until Aug 2009, it did not hurt my ears this bad, I don't think.)

Determined to be near Fishhawk and Boyette boulevard, towers 1-4,
maybe tower01 or tower02, but not 100% certain.
(Tower 03 appears to have a cell-tower-like structure on the top, but
this (Google Earth) appears to be old data.)

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Previous Location (North Brandon) (Late July 2008 to August 2009)
I never heard the directional quality sound but I could feel it up
here!
When I first heard felt it, I thought that it was water pumps pushing
water down Lithia Pinecrest Road through a water main.
Then when the sound started in December, I thought it was a factory!
But when I realized that factories do not get up and move, I knew it
was something else!
Since it apparently stopped from the northern source (in early
August), all I have are some of the nearby towers.
While I cannot hear this anymore, maybe it is relevant, why would it
change direction, and yet sound the same??

Some sort of lower power transmission tests maybe back then, because
it is louder/vibrates more now from the south!
Below are suspected sources, but since they are (relatively) quiet
now, I do not know for sure.

northern celltower 01 (near MacIntosh & I-4)
28° 2'2.30"N 82°14'43.74"W
owner: CROWN CASTLE GT COMPANY LLC

6 radio towers
(These towers are labelled WLCC-AM (by Wikipedia), does AM radio use
more than one antenna?_
28° 1'30.85"N 82°16'59.82"W
owner: MINORITY MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL INC

northern cell tower 02
28° 1'28.03"N 82°15'18.44"W
owner: HICKMAN MERLE L, probably leases tower land to cell phone
company.

northern cell tower 03
28° 1'28.72"N 82°16'23.30"W
owner: SBA PROPERTIES INC

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None of this is something I wanted to do, traipsing around in the
middle of the night, but this phenomena has severely invaded my
personal space, and I feel compelled to investigate it, if this
technology is being deployed across America, certainly I am not the
only one that will tortured by it.
It may be newer technology, it may be older technology at a higher
power or different frequency, but it is not as harmless as some people
think. I feel sorry for the people that live in the shadow of these
towers, they may not perceive it, but it is affecting them too.
And I do not know why I can only hear the sound in a particular slice
of Brandon, probably the higher elevations.
I am VERY tired right now, I hope this is coherent.

P.S. does anyone know of a relatively inexpensive recorder/microphone
that could capture very low frequencies?

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