Anybody seen this one yet?
Very interesting, exactly what we have been talking about happening right now.
http://www.wirelessestimator.com/t_content.cfm?pagename=Breaking%20News
73 fer nw es gud DX,
QSL VIA: BUR, LotW, e-QSL
Bob AD5VJ(AAR6VM)
Old calls: WY5L/KH3-KE5CTY-N5IET
http://www.ad5vj.com/
Member: CTDXCC, NTCC, STXDXCC
FISTS: # 12637, SKCC# 2369
10X# 37210, FP#-1141
SMIRK#-5177, RARS #-149
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> rdhinkle@sbcglobal.net
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:47 PM
> To: 'Cam and Juli Hedrick'; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Birds and Towers
>
> You certainly deserve a pass on that... Obviously you've
> created a great hunting perch for red-tails!
>
> But... Unless you get there first thing in the morning, the
> assorted mice, shrews, skunks, raccoons, weasels, grackles,
> crows and other scavengers tend to clean 'em up pretty
> quickly. Plus it can be a little tough to find birds that are
> often 3-5 inches long laying dead in the grass. And again,
> there are NEVER "piles of little birds" anywhere, and they're
> not always directly under the tower. If they whack into it at
> 600 feet or so, they're likely to drift down wind as they
> fall... Again, the things only weigh a few ounces.
> Any remember that the guy wires take a number of them too,
> and they fall away from the tower too. And, I think we can
> agree that except for the biggest contest stations, most ham
> towers are generally WAY below migration altitude!
>
> Shacks are never in the way of the birds, sometimes depending
> on lighting the windows look like openings when it's dark
> inside, so they try to fly through (I know, bad move on their
> part....).
>
> Preventing windows strikes isn't hard -- there are some nifty
> stickers shaped and sized like maple leaves available now
> that look like frosted glass to us, but appear blue in
> daylight to birds (and bugs). We've had 18 months of no
> window strikes here using them, and they're attractive to boot.
>
> Cheers....Bob
>
>
>
>
> Bob Hinkle, KK8ZZ
> Solon, Ohio 44139
> Grid: EN91gj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Cam
> and Juli Hedrick
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:55 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Birds and Towers
>
>
> Hmmm, the Red Shouldered Hawks nesting pair on my property
> love my towers.
> They sit way up there on a monobander and hunt. I don't have
> many mouse or other rodent problems here because of them.
> They are on the protected list and we love watching them
> teaching the new ones to fly and hunt each year.
> Also the screech owls hunt from them towers at night. The
> bats love to paly games fly around the towers chasing bugs
> and they're protected as well.
> No dead birds near my towers in 33 years of radio as a hobby
> or profession...Air Force Combat Communications.
>
> I guess I'm going to have to demolish my shack though...the
> sliding glass door, windows, and storm door have taken a toll
> on the small birds...one bird has committed suicide at each
> over a period of 7 years. A shack with no windows makes for
> isolation and I love to watch it snow and keep an eye out on
> the horses while I operate or work on project. One thing I
> really like is that I can assemble antennas in the shack and
> test everything before sending it up the tower. That's nice
> in the winter as that's when I do most of my design work and
> machining for new antennas to go up in the spring.
> I guess I'll have to do that outside since the shack is in
> the way of the birds. One thing though...I might be able to
> get a waiver since a number of birds built nests under the
> eves and the timber frame foundation. What do you guys think?
>
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