[TowerTalk] Tower Bird Strikes "Proven"

[Wyllma Wall]

Wyllma Wall wrote:

> Wyllma Wall wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> > Will one decapitated pelican count. My customer use to have a 20M Telrex
> > and this bird use to sit on it. My customer changed to a Quad and the
> > reflector wire fixed him.
> >                                                               Bill KC4UZ
> >
> > Stan or Patricia Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, Dick, for bringing this to our attention.  It sounds like pure
> > > BS to me where the tower strikes are involved . . .  I have had three
> > > 100+ foot towers with 12 guys on two of them and 9 guys on the third
> > > one up for more than 25 years and I can't remember a SINGLE dead bird
> > > incident anywhere near any of them.  I have seen hundreds of birds
> > > resting on my beams all at the same time, so I know birds are near them
> > > a lot.  They just don't fly into them.  Like I said, the report sounds
> > > like pure BS to me.
> > >
> > > A more likely explanation for the report is that you have a "bird
> > > lover" who is also a "tower hater" and who fabricated this report to
> > > justify eliminating towers.  It would be REAL INTERESTING to read the
> > > actual report and see just what kind of towers they claim kill birds.
> > > It might well be high powered microwave and the birds get fried when
> > > they fly into the path of the RF.  So, did they do autopsies on the
> > > bird bodies so they know for sure it was a collision that caused the
> > > deaths instead of RF?  Inquiring minds want to know . . .
> > >
> > > Stan  w7ni@teleport.com
> > >
> > > Dick Flanagan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Possible ammunition that could be used against tower installations.
> > > >
> > > > See http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/07/07/birddeaths.ap/
> > > >
> > > > 73, Dick
> > > > --
> > > > Dick Flanagan W6OLD CFII Minden, Nevada (South of Reno)
> > > > Visit http://www.cvrc.net/
> > > >
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