They were crawling up the wires to the tower to do something to the
attachment point between the insulators and cables. This is a place where
they frequently have to replace damaged hardware or wire strands. Since
they were not really carrying much in the way of parts or tools, just that
small bag, it may have just been an inspection and tightening of the
hardware job.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K7LXC@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 16:28
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 52, Issue 43
>
>
> In a message dated 4/18/2007 6:00:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
>
> > This isn't exactly ham radio, but it does have a bit to do
> with towers (of a sort), electricity (lots of it), a
> Faraday cage, and someone who is much much
> braver than I am...
>
> > _http://www.glumbert.com/media/highpower_
> (http://www.glumbert.com/media/highpower)
>
> HOLY CRAP! Talk about your high pucker factor!
>
> The only thing I didn't get was what they were actually doing. I
> didn't
> see any work going on - just the helo ride and the wire crawling. Any
> idea as
> to why they were up there?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve K7LXC
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