Two HAMS (father and son) died yesterday putting up an antenna in the Kansas City area. Please pray for the family and remember to be safe. Newspaper <http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/70381
All indications points to KC0TIG... http://www.qrz.com/callsign/KC0TIG Dino - K6RIX dino@k6rix.com Two HAMS (father and son) died yesterday putting up an antenna in the Kansas City area. Please pray
Hi Guys, This is very sad news. Seems to be happening more and more. I had a very close encounter with a high voltage electric line when a young ham. (50 years ago) Perhaps we should encourage the AR
TT: In addition to electrocutions associated with towers and antennas, there have been news articles recently about how dangerous the commercial tower industry is becoming. It has been labeled one of
If people don't get this simple practice without it being on a test, then we might as well discount all common sense. I'm sure the two in this case KNEW to be careful and this is nothing more than a
Our EC sent out a warning note about this very type of thing Friday. It was based on an two guys setting up a portable repeater on a search and rescue mission out West Roger (K8RI - ARRL Life Member)
The NCVEC at http://www.ncvec.org/ controls the content of the question pools. They also accept question suggestions on that page. With all the "dumbing down" of ham radio comments, it's easy to beli
Another reason to subscribe to Towertalk. This issue of getting to close to power lines was discussed last week. My guess is the two deceased hams were not subscribers. How sad. Bill KH7XS/K4XS **Get
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Put stuff like that on an FCC exam??????? I dunno, call me old fashioned, but, isn't this stuff COMMON SENSE? 73- Chuck KI9A In a message dated 7/14/2008 11:47:59 A.M. Central Daylight Time, RLVZ@aol
Whoa time out Bill: I have had 2 antenna accidents in my 50 years. Both were caused by carelessness on my part. I got lucky, I should either be dead or at least totally handicapped. These 2 guys just
My sympathy to the families involved in this tragedy. It is very sad when someone dies doing something they enjoy as their hobby. We must all remember first things first with antenna, mast, tower and
Hi gang, I just got through reading about this tragedy and a couple of thoughts crossed my mind. I share them will all of you and please, don't shoot the messenger here. I am not pointing any fingers
Most HAMS do live near 7.6 lines - they are the distribution lines feeding the pole pigs. Some are often even a higher power. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be
I just moved from an older house with exactly what you described. I examined the lines coming to the house visually with binoculars upon move in. At which point I called 911 and told them there was a
Someone made a negative comment when I said one should keep his tower twice the distance from power lines. I read that rule in a tower instruction book. I think I will stick to that advice regardless
Michael, All residential primaries are at 7.2kV to 7.6Kv and some may be a bit higher. If there is one or 3 conductor on the pole and a transformer feeding residential drops the high wire is at a pot
We have a ham locally here in Daytona Beach that has trees rubbing the wires and we tell everyone they are "self pruning". He has called the electric company (who did nothing), he call the fire depar
Michael, if you have above-ground power to your house, then a minimum of 7.6 KV is no farther away than the pole with your transformer on it. 73, Pete N4ZR ___________________________________________
My country property is ringed by overhead lines. The local power company told me that mine were at 13kV. Mark N1UK --Original Message-- _______________________________________________ _______________