I knew a ham who was a captain for a major airline and had, from time to time, done a lot of listening on 20 meters using the aircrafts' radios. I once asked him how the sigs varied as you went reall
Think "OSHA Cowboy"... http://www.hsegroup.com/hse/text/cowboy.htm<http://www.hsegroup.com/hse/text/cowboy.htm> -- Original Message -- From: Roger Kissel<mailto:kc8hz@hotmail.com> To: towertalk@conte
If safety was really the issue, local governments would require permits to plant (and annual inspections) for *TREES*. Falling trees cause far more injury and damage, than falling towers of the same
http://www.kirotv.com/news/14273204/detail.html<http://www.kirotv.com/news/14273204/detail.html> Associated video link shows the (cell?) tower... _______________________________________________ _____
The worst-case structural loads on one of these arrangements can occur when the tower is being lowered. You can get what engineers call a "suddenly-applied load" which can be as much as twice the sta
Most of the posts in this thread deal with climbing equipment and technique. Another issue in climbing safety concerns carelessness/misjudgement due to prior consumption of alcohol, medications, "sub
Some tower twist is good, you don't necessarily want it totally rigid. During big wind gusts, it reduces shock loads on the rotator gear train, and tendency for boom-to-mast clamp to slip on the mast
Another psychological ploy is, if it is a simple project you can do in a few hours, pick a 3-day holiday weekend, and do as much as you can Friday evening, finish up Saturday morning at the latest, t
My wife walked in when I was looking at those pix and she said, "What's that?" So I explained. And she replied, "Oh! His bricks have green moss between them, JUST LIKE OURS!!" Steve - You can see ste
Reminds me of a favorite post, either this story or a link to it appeared on TT few years ago: Climber on a commercial tower several hundred feet up had a safety strap with hook, but it was not conne
If the area of interest is one tracked by zillow.com, and you want to put in some effort, it would be easy to compare values of equivalent quality homes in tower-proximate, and "unblemished" location
Also a company, look at their trucks... I just spotted an ad in Newsweek for a product called TRUE NORTH It is a brand of snacks -- see truenorthsnacks.com I couldn't stop myself. Bill--W4BSG _______
If each guy had a different tension, then the tower/guy system would not have a clean natural frequency to which it could respond/oscillate...?? (probably quit shaking a lot quicker if you ran into i
Proceed with caution here. If these are "protected" species, the Feds might consider *anything* whatsoever you do to alter their natural behavior, as "harassment," punishable by (the customary fines/
Again, it is wise to proceed with caution. If you contact F&WS in a fashion that lets them know who you are (e.g., send me some stuff...), being burocrats with time on their hands, they might just de
While appropriate utilization of Wenches, True North, and Owls are vitally important aspects of a world-beating tower/antenna installation and utility, *today*, right here on Towertalk, it can now be
Something obviously wrongly attached to that original link. Try this: Go to Google and search for "Graeme McMahon helmet cam" _______________________________________________ _________________________
Go to QRZ page for N7EF, click "details" tab, go to map, click on "satellite " tab and zoom in. The parallel lines on my side of the road behind the property are 115,000 volts, about 40 feet from the