Ron,
Such a tragic series of events, for Jim and his family--and you.
Jim's experience certainly made it extremely unlikely he erred. Thank you
for providing the facts here.
I am very sorry you lost your friend and we wish you all the best.
73
Chip W1YW
In a message dated 9/23/2014 12:19:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
towertalk@contesting.com writes:
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From: w9rma@charter.net
To: towertalk-owner@contesting.com
Sent: 9/22/2014 7:45:57 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: W7ZUC It's a sad day.
Dear Sir;
I think it is about time to end the "It's a sad day" and put in proper
titles….
I am the owner of the tower from which Jim Linstedt fell from. Jim was a
safe climber and always used his belt and always attached himself to the
tower. What appears to happened is that when he detached from the
tower and was moving from point A to point B he suffered some type of
medical problem believed to be a
arrhythmia according to the coroner. I didn't see when he fell from the
tower, but caught sight of him about
35 to 40 ft off the ground just before he hit. It appeared he was
already
deceased at that point.
There was no sound of any type made when he fell, and I would not have
known it until he hit the ground but for some reason I looked up to see
what
he was doing when I saw him falling. Jim has climbed many of the hams
towers in this area helping whenever he can. I used to climb with him
but
because of my own medical condition I quit climbing sometime ago. It is
very
aggravating not to be able to climb my own tower because
I built it and maintained for years, and it is getting harder and harder
to find people who will climb.
Right now I have hired a professional climber to come and finish the
work,
I have no idea what it will cost but it has to be finished and right now
I
could not ask another fellow ham from the area to climb and will probably
depend on professional climbers to do my work from now on.
I was going to post this myself however I figured I would let you do this
as it is your reflector. You can edit this as you see fit as I have
gotten
long winded again.
Jim was a good friend and a friend to all of the hams in the community.
He served as president of the local ham club, chairman of the tailgate
committee, his sister passed away two days after hearing the news of
Jim's
passing and he daughter is getting married in a week.
Thanks for your time.
Ronald Anderson - W9RMA
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