....and that's the way it is!! :-)
Bill, W5VX
>-----Original Message-----
>From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
>bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Leigh Sedgwick
>Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2:31 PM
>To: Reicher, James; towertalk@contesting.com; k3nd@yahoo.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Woodpeckers and Antennas
>
>Woodpeckers hit anything that makes a big "noise" to attract a
>mate....guys,
>the woodies are just trying to get laid. Kinda like a drummer on MTV
>:-)....
>
>73 de Mike
>K7PI
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Reicher, James" <JReicher@hrblock.com>
>To: <towertalk@contesting.com>; <k3nd@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:06 PM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Woodpeckers and Antennas
>
>
>> Great thread, so far :)
>>
>> About 20 years ago, I moved to a house in a semi-rural lake community
>> (600 acres of water), surrounded on 3 sides by woods. Because of the
>> lake and spending lots of time in the yard, many residents installed an
>> outdoor telephone bell, to let them easily here the phone ringing.
>>
>> Upon moving in, and being completely unencumbered by HOAs and CC&Rs, I
>> immediately put up a tower, supported by a house bracket, just outside
>> my bedroom.
>>
>> One morning, I awoke to the sound of a telephone bell. I reached for
>> the phone, picked up the receiver and heard a dial tone. Yet, the bell
>> kept ringing. Then, with my head still foggy from sleep, it hit me...
>> this house had no such outdoor ringer.
>>
>> I went outside to investigate.
>>
>> I kept hearing the "phone" ring, then I got around to the tower. There
>> was a Flicker woodpecker, pounding away at the leg of my Rohn 25G.
>> Apparently he thought it was pretty tasty because he kept waking me up
>> about the same time every morning for 3 months.
>>
>>
>>
>> 73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO
>>
>> Light travels faster than sound... This is why some people appear
>> bright until you hear them speak.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:34:53 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: GALE STEWARD <k3nd@yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Woodpeckers and Antennas
>> To: towertalk reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
>> Message-ID: <978993.81236.qm@web50708.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>
>> Ok guys, time for a new thread. This was a new one on
>> me.
>>
>> I have a bit of woods on my property and throughout
>> the years have seen and heard various woodpeckers
>> pecking away at dead trees. It very common to hear
>> them in the morning as I'm walking to the car to leave
>> for work. This morning as I was walking out the
>> driveway, I heard a metallic "rattle" of sorts like
>> I'd never heard. It was dead calm so it wasn't a wind
>> related issue. I looked up the tower and there was a
>> woodpecker sitting on the boom of the 40-2CD. As I
>> watched, he lowered his head and pecked the boom of
>> the antenna. It was quite loud but he/she wasn't fazed
>> in the least and continued, on and off, for several
>> minutes and then flew back into the woods. In all the
>> years that I've had towers and antennas in the air,
>> that was a first! Maybe the uncommomly hot
>> temperatures in this part of the country are to blame.
>> It's certainly taking it's toll of the mental
>> abilities of some of the people!
>>
>> Maybe I need a plastic owl up there!
>>
>> 73, Stew K3ND
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