the first time I visited W3AU after I moved to Tampa we got to his house
and his wife said, Ed is out in back... my Dad and I went looking for
him... there he was up in the air on some AB105 swapping out a rotor :-)
Ed musta been roughly 75 or so... gave me tip on climbing a tower on its
corner versus its face which is the way I had always done it...until then!
When I was younger I thought this stuff about having your health was so
much hooey, now I would kill for the energy I had when I was in school.
K4OJ
Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I recall that the Los Angeles Times published a photo of W6AM standing
> at the top of his tower (at his house, not the rhombic farm) when he
> was well into his 80s, but then Don was one of a kind.
>
> Bob, N7XY
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:36:26PM +0200, on4kj wrote:
>
>>Only 13 years to go before I can climb ... I am nearby 70.
>>
>>I climbed for the last time when I was fifty five, I guess thats about the
>>age we should stop climbing. Serious compagnies wont insure climbers after
>>fifty-five, at least in Belgium. Believe me they dont care that much about
>>climbers, they only care about money.....
>>Jos on4kj
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Steve Katz" <stevek@jmr.com>
>>To: "'Larry L Lindblom'" <llindblom@juno.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 5:58 PM
>>Subject: RE: [BULK] - [TowerTalk] Tower Tale
>>
>>
>>
>>>I didn't see it, but that's hilarious...and hilariously stupid. An 83
>>>year-old climbing a tower solo? -WB2WIK/6
>>>
>>>"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of
>>>enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Larry L Lindblom [SMTP:llindblom@juno.com]
>>>>Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:50 PM
>>>>To: towertalk@contesting.com
>>>>Subject: [BULK] - [TowerTalk] Tower Tale
>>>>
>>>>Tonight I grabbed a can of tuna and some crackers for my evening meal.
>>>
>>I
>>
>>>>turned on the TV and lo and behold there was a piece about a ham radio
>>>>operator on "Stupid Human Behavior Caught on Tape".
>>>>
>>>>It seemed thing were not working well and a ham radio operator climbed
>>>>his tower ( 50 or 60 ft) to check out his "huge" antenna (a 3 element
>>>
>>tri
>>
>>>>bander). He slipped and was hanging with one leg in the tower and his
>>>>head aimed at the ground. The fire department got him down and the
>>>>announcer pointed out he was 83 years old. His wifes comment in a
>>>
>>rather
>>
>>>>crotchety voice was "I've been telling him to take that stupid tower
>>>
>>down
>>
>>>>for years!"
>>>>
>>>>Given his wife, I'll bet the only thing this ham has to live for is his
>>>>radio which gets him away from her!
>>>>_______________________________________________
>>>>
>>>
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