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Fri Feb 16 09:24:16 EST 1996

Hope you don't get this msg. twice...It appeared to have bounced the
first time!

Does anyone have a phone number and or address for the subject business?
Apparently, I don't subscribe to a publication they advertise in but would
like to get a catalog.

Thanks,

Wayne   KC5DVT    ehayes at vnet.ibm.com

>From Rich L. Boyd" <rlboyd at CapAccess.org  Fri Feb 16 16:16:40 1996
From: Rich L. Boyd" <rlboyd at CapAccess.org (Rich L. Boyd)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:16:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: crankup caution (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91-FP.960216111629.28018H-100000 at cap1.capaccess.org>

Rich Boyd KE3Q

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:43:50 GMT
From: tony wyn jones <tony at gwyepu.demon.co.uk>
To: rlboyd at capaccess.org
Subject: Re: crankup caution

HI Rich,

(In reply to your message dated Sunday 11, February 1996)

Well, I can but relate to a sticky situation I found myself in a few years ago while
doing a local VHF contest field-day. Being an enthusiastic teenage know-all, I decided
to climb a 60ft crank-up, and attach a 500w floodlamp at the 30ft point, so we could
have an illuminated contest site at night. (we are already qrv at this time, and pulling
the VHF array down in mid-contest was not acceptable to everyone!) 

After the contest, I was asked to retreive the halogen lamp, and decided to climb the 
crank-up. I didn't even have a climbing belt (WAS I STUPID!), but 30ft wasn't that high
to an enthusiastic teenager......Whilst undoing the lamp's fastening with one hand, 
and holding on to the tower with the other, the top and middle sections of the crank-up 
collapsed about 2 feet into the bottom section. 

I was violently jerked, and for a split-second was left dangling with one hand firmly
crushed in-between two sections, and blood proceeded to gush out and run down the tower
leg. I nearly passed out, but somehow managed to hang on with my "good" hand. Unbenown 
to me, someone had tried to wind the mast down, and it had become jammed, but about 2 ft
of wind-up wire rope slack had been released, and when I climbed to the 30ft mark, and
jerked the sections, dowm came the mast, thereby trapping my hand and severely damaging
my fingers.

What was annoying was the fact that the "team" hadn't noticed anything was wrong, and it 
took some considerable time to alert them that a serious accident had happened (one guy 
came to the bottom of the mast to see if he could help, and passed out as blood poured
over him!). 

I could only be released by someone climbing the mast with an iron bar, and forcefully
lifting the top two sections in a crowbar fashion. I had been essentially trapped at the
30ft level, and had lost lots of blood, and then had to climb down with one hand! When
I got to the bottom, feeling giddy and weak (faint!), another HERO passed out when he
uttered " let's have a look at this scratch then!".........

I was taken to Hospital over 20 miles away, and my fingers were sown back on my hand,
although today  have lot's of bad scars, the only tell-tail sign is that my "ring" finger
and my little finger are bent like bananas. 

I am NOT proud of this episode, and consider I was extremely lucky not to have passed-out
and lost my grip of the mast at the 30ft level, and may be loosing all my fingers at that
point!!!

I've never sent much to the Internet reflectors, as I have to receive my mail this end
through a 3rd party, and sending to the "group" is hassle. I would be grateful if you
would consider forwarding or reproducing this message to any reflector you may think 
appropriate, in the hope that it prevents others from doing such lethal things as
climbing crank-up masts!!

(Did I type all the above with all these bent fingers Hi!)

73 de  T O N Y .. GW4VEQ

-- 
Tony Wyn Jones
tel: 01248 750262 [Ext:290]
fax: 01248 750093
DXcluster: gw4veq > gb7adx
BBS Packet: gw4veq @ gb7osp
BT Gold: 10092:LLA3060
Internet: tony at gwyepu.demon.co.uk

>From LAWTON.I.F-" <LAWTON.I.F-_at_BALT.PO.018 at smtpgty.bwi.wec.com  Fri Feb 16 17:41:57 1996
From: LAWTON.I.F-" <LAWTON.I.F-_at_BALT.PO.018 at smtpgty.bwi.wec.com (LAWTON.I.F-)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 12:41:57 EST
Subject: GO  W3LPL
Message-ID: <9601168245.AA824505295 at smtpgty.bwi.wec.com>

     TO THE W3LPL GANG

        GOOD LUCK IN THE TEST THIS WEEKEND.  MY YOUR SECRET WEAPON
     THE EOS INTERNATIONAL BOXES PERFORM WELL!!!

                        73'S    IKE     W2EOS ....

>From LAWTON.I.F-" <LAWTON.I.F-_at_BALT.PO.018 at smtpgty.bwi.wec.com  Fri Feb 16 17:48:53 1996
From: LAWTON.I.F-" <LAWTON.I.F-_at_BALT.PO.018 at smtpgty.bwi.wec.com (LAWTON.I.F-)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 12:48:53 EST
Subject: DENTRON PARTS
Message-ID: <9601168245.AA824505778 at smtpgty.bwi.wec.com>

        DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW WHERE I COULD FIND PARTS FOR A
     DENTRON DTR 2000 (ONE 8877) AMP.  I'M LOOKING FOR A BAND SWITCH,
     AND TR RELAY.

                        THANKS FOR YOUR TIME,
                                73'S   IKE    W2EOS  ...

>From Fred Hopengarten" <k1vr at k1vr.jjm.com  Thu Feb 15 19:37:51 1996
From: Fred Hopengarten" <k1vr at k1vr.jjm.com (Fred Hopengarten)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:37:51 EST
Subject: Tower Help
Message-ID: <31238b92.k1vr at k1vr.jjm.com>

On Thu, 15 Feb 96 12:27:27 -0500, (tom georgens)
tom=georgens%Eng%OpenSys at fishbowl02.lss.emc.com wrote:

> KM3T on page 49.  If you hear him running at
> 150/hour this weekend be sure to stop by and talk to him
about the article.

Hmmmm.  Whatever one thinks about QSO solicitation by
internet, does this posting bring us into the new era of QSO
suppression by internet?
-- 
                      Fred Hopengarten K1VR
           Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
     home + office telephone:  617/259-0088 (FAX on demand)
                   internet:  k1vr at k1vr.jjm.com
            "Big antennas, high in the sky, are better
                       than small ones, low."