Has anyone seen someone who has fallen from a tower? I was called out one night 10 years ago because a 23 year old kid with an 8 month old daughter who will now never know her daddy thought he could
A detuning skirt is to make the tower look invisible to a nearby AM station so it does not change the radiation of their signal. We have thousands of them on our towers just for this purpose. I'm not
Agreed Steve, talk to Butch M. Roger. Tell him your a ham and I sent you from ATC. He will know what you mean and this is what he does for a living. He may be able to give you some free advise. AMCoo
The AM station doesn't have the skirt. The "others" towers do. The AM station, the Tower is (or towers) are the antenna. 73 Dave n4zkf Dave: The AM station may have been using a folded unipole antenn
Exactly. We work with the USDA and they supply us with effigies (dead stuffed buzzards) we hang off our towers to keep the buzzards away. We also use this product and it seems to work well also. http
Someone with too much $$$$. Good pilot though!! 73 Dave n4zkf Www.n4zkf.com _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Towe
Tell him to buy a Panasonic Plasma. :) I have one 50'away in my living room and bought because it was the only one that didn't create noise. Come to find out it was the 2nd best on the market at the
We haul stuff up towers everyday with the Marline Hitch or Single Hitch as it's called. A Little tape at the bottom so it doesn't slip in the beginning and your off to the races. 73 Dave n4zkf e-mail
Tanglefoot is banned from our towers. It's a safety issue for our climbers. It gets on the gear and dirt, dust, anything sticks to it. But it works if you want to use it. We work with the USDA and us
You mean you lease space on other peoples towers. I work for one of the big three tower companies. There are so many things not touched or even thought of here. I hope you can put him on the right tr
Building a site. Big or small. http://www.radioandtrunking.com/downloads/motorola/R56_2005_manual.pdf 2-19 3-17 4-44 You will get the hint?. 73 Dave n4zkf e-mail: n4zkf@n4zkf.com web: http://www.n4zk
I didn't put a rover on mars but I do grounding on cell and broadcast sites for a living working in telecom. Does that count? (not to take anything away from you Jim) :) 73 Dave n4zkf _______________
You can't belong to this group it you don't expect a beatdown once in awhile. :) It's going to come?. 73 Dave n4zkf _______________________________________________ ___________________________________
It seems to work in my shack well. Anyone local ham here can tell you I took a direct hit on a 2M G9 "while talking on it" and while the antenna didn't make it the radio is still here in the shack to
Well said David, Being in the cell phone construction and cell/broadcast tower industry for a couple of decades I find a lot of local hams asking me about grounds. How I get hit (as I have had) and t
Two hooks do not mean 100% tied off unless you are moving. Then you need to have one on the tower at all times as you are unclipping and clipping with the other while climbing. That's what a dual sho
Exactly right Pete. We have COWS all over the pace at special events. This is why all permanent sites should be registered. Even under 200' and not lit to CYA. 73 Dave n4zkf _________________________
I'm glad your not in the profession. Dave n4zkf _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://
If it's lit, it has to be monitored so you know when it goes out. Either by electronics or a "tower watcher" and he has to log it in both modes each day that it is working or not. 73 Dave n4zkf _____
That's why you don't climb ALONE. You have a ground man in case you get in trouble. 73 Dave n4zkf _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tower