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From: "David Pruett" <k8cc at comcast.net>
To: "MRRC Reflector" <mrrc at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:09 AM
Subject: [MRRC] [Fwd: [VHFcontesting] Tower climbers to get their day in 
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>I thought this sounded interesting...
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> Subject: [VHFcontesting] Tower climbers to get their day in the sun
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:11:08 EDT
> From: W0WOI at aol.com
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> Climbers to get their day in the sun
> NBC's "Dateline" to explore the perilous world of tower dogs on  July 21
> July 16, 2008 - NBC's "Dateline  Presents" says it will take "a
> never-before-seen journey into the  hazardous world of the tower climbers 
> who work on the
> frontlines of  America's high-tech communications system."
> The program, "Tower Dogs," will air on  Monday, July 21 at 10:00 PM/ET.
>
> The hour-long broadcast is  expected to give an up close and personal
> no-holds-barred look at tower  dogs' lives - up in the air and on the 
> ground.
> "We experience their on-the-job tension  and watch them work hard, play 
> hard,
> and mourn when they lose one of their  own," NBC said in a press release.
> In a twist on all the dangerous-job  programs that solely feature males,
> typically narrated with muscular  prose, "Tower Dogs" follows an unusual 
> tower
> crew boss: a woman named  Nikki Collins, a single mom, former cheerleader, 
> and
> the person keeping  her tough-guy charges in one piece.
> Although there has been a noted increase  in tower construction company
> owners and _climbers  that are women_
> (http://www.wirelessestimator.com/t_content.cfm?pagename=Women Climbers) , 
> they are in a small minority in a predominately
> male  profession.
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> The "Dateline" team worked for four  months documenting this group of 
> tower
> climbers as they worked their way  through 40 towns and cities in 24 
> states.
> During this time there were  seven fatalities nationwide, including five 
> deaths
> in a 12-day period in  April. Please see: _National  exposure long 
> overdue,
> say many_ (http://www.wirelessestimator.com/t_content.cfm?pagename=Tower 
> Dogs)
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