[CQ-Contest] Field Day tower fatality

[Julius Fazekas]

If you can find them, AB-577 and AB-621 masts make excellent 45'+ FD Towers (and nice at home too). At worst all one might need to do is work from a 6' step ladder.

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html

Tennessee QSO Party: Sunday, 6 Sept 2009
http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366


--- On Mon, 7/6/09, Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki73 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Field Day tower fatality
> To: "CQ-Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 4:54 PM
> This is a very sad to hear !
> 
> Years ago the Palomar ARC ( W6NWG )  in San Diego area
> decided there would
> be NO Tower Climbing and
> engineered a portable tilt up bases and tilt brackets for
> antennas and we
> could also install pulleys arms
> for dipoles etc, all at ground level.
> 
> We use all crank up towers with regularly checked cables
> 
> If I can find the photos, I would be happy to send to
> anyone interested or
> post them to my
> PIcasa web web photo album if many requests.
> 
> This type of incident can be easily avoided with these
> innovations
> 
> Also during tilt up of the tower with antennas installed,
> from horizontal to
> vertical position,
> a designated FD Safety Officer must be present and tower
> crew is constantly
> reminded during
> the raising to keep hands and fingers out of sections even
> though cables are
> checked
> so there is no slack in them.  I am pushing for
> getting clamps made so that
> sections
> are positively held in place during tilt up in case there
> is some other form
> of cable issue
> or a slack cable or winch anomaly is not seen.
> 
> 73, Dennis N6KI
> San Diego
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:16 PM, <K7LXC at aol.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I just got this and hadn't heard about it. Sad 
> story.
> >
> > http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2009/06/30/local_news/623347.txt
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve    K7LXC
> > TOWER TECH
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