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Re: [TowerTalk] MonstIR install

To: "Dale Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] MonstIR install
From: Glenn Rattmann <k6na@cts.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:30:08 -0700
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At 07:57 PM 6/21/2005 -0500, Dale Martin wrote:

>Hire a helicopter to come in lift and transport it to
>the tower.  
>
>Think a helo's far out?  There was an article in QST or CQ years ago where
>someone did it with a hot air balloon--

The hot air balloon lifts were at W7KW in Peoria, AZ and made the cover of
CQ sometime in 1977.

Several folks have used choppers as well.  Phil Ashcraft (SK) in Dallas did
it I believe, and the Texas boys will remember others.

73,
Glenn K6NA


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