From:
Fred Hopengarten, K1VR
Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105 * 617/259-0088
e-mail: k1vr@juno.com
Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low.
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996 17:56:31 -0500 K7LXC@aol.com writes:
>
> Climbing the x braces is easy. The hard part is standing on them
>all day
>while you're working on the tower. They are real meat grinders. My
>feet
>ache just thinking about it.
K1VR opines:
When I've worked on X brace towers, I've always worn steel shank
hiking boots with a Vibram (tm) sole. Helps immensely. But they are
still painful to work on.
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