Dennis Severns <hamrigger@yahoo.com> wrote: Hey Steve
I wear one of these same suits on occasion when working on live broadcast
towers and antennas. They say it it will protect us from the thousands of
watts of RF power we are being exposed to. I guess they do work, a coworker of
mine was on a tower working on the antenna for a TV station with the power
turned off, but the engineer at the tower site did not lock the transmitter
into local mode and the people at the studio turned it back on while he was
still on the tower and exposed him to about thirty thousand watts causing his
clothing to catch fire and receiving RF burns on his body. He is now driving a
taxi and still trying to get a settlement from the broadcast company. I have
been exposed to RF 16 times the legal limit while wearing these suits and so
far have not had any problems.
All in the name of profits, the power companies do not want any interruption of
service and neither do the radio and TV companies.
Dennis Severns kc0sul
Professional Tower Tech/ Rigger
K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
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
TOWER TECH -
Professional tower services for hams
Cell: 206-890-4188
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