I am very pleased to see this thread. My wife is a huge baseball fan. So, being
a dutiful husband, I regularly accompany her to ballparks. And while she's
cheering on her favorite players, I often plot how the various light standards
would make wonderful supports for wire arrays. This thread has given me comfort
in the knowledge that I'm not the only one with daydreams...
de k0myw
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From: n8de@thepoint.net
>
> As a professional educator and coach, I looked into that when I was
> employed at a school that had four beautifully placed pair of light
> towers on a football field that ran from NE to SW .. ideal for a 4-el
> 80m wire beam on Europe!
>
> My request was simply that I wished to be allowed to use the stadium
> light standards for international communications and was willing to
> sign a waiver of liability. The "Director of Operations" was amenable
> to the idea, especially after I offered to donate a modest to the
> 'athletic fund' for stadium upkeep.
>
> The idea was presented to the "school board" for a final decision.
> They said, "YES" .... with one requirement ... that the donation be at
> least $1,000.
>
> That shot me down and I operated from my home station instead.
>
> Don
> N8DE
>
> Quoting Pat Barthelow <aa6eg@hotmail.com>:
>
> > Folks:
> >
> > A ham friend in Argentina says on some contest weekends, the local sports
> > stadiums sprout towers and antennas from the local contest clubs. I always
> > thought they would be a great place to put up a tower, or to use existing
> > light standards that often approach 200 ft. I found a website of the
> > Stadium Mnaagers association. I wonder, if properly approached, stadium
> > management would allow hams/contesters to set up semi permanent, or perhaps
> > permanent towers/antennas or to use existing tall structures at the stadiums
> > for antennas and contest operations?
> > Perhaps an approach involving activiities/improvements towards disaster
> > operatoins at the stadiums could catch interest of the Management companies
> > that run them...Or....maybe the answer to their "whats in it form me" cant
> > be very attractive, so they would wirte off any cooperative venture with
> > contester hams/ARES hams, as being too much of a liability. Any ideas that
> > could make a Stadium a viable antenna tower/contesting/hamming QTH?
> >
> > Sincerely, Pat Barthelow aa6eg@hotmail.com
> > http://www.jamesburgdish.org
> > Jamesburg Earth Station Moon Bounce Team
> > http://www.cq-vhf.com
> >
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