[Towertalk] Near Tragedy Averted

[Frank C Travanty]

I saw this story on Milwaukee's local Channel 6. They gave the
gentelman's age as 83, and that he had been a ham for 40 years. They also
did make reference to "Amatuer Radio" and showed his shack. His XYL was
interviewed. She wasn't to happy that he had climed the tower without
telling anyone. His leg apparently got hooked in the tower and he ended
up hanging upsidedown from the safetybelt and his leg. 
Reported injury was luckily only a bruised leg. Her closing comment was
that she wished someone would come and take that tower down.
Frank W9JCC

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:14:07 -0500 "Bob Ferrey, Jr." <n3dok@pgh.net>
writes:
> I also watched the news story. But not one newsperson said it was a 
> Amateur Radio Tower. They said it was a man working on his "TV 
> Antenna". 
> 
> Lets all hope the fellow Amateur is OK. And that he decides to have 
> his Tower work done by some one else.
> 
> Bob N3DOK
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I just saw part of the story on CNN, but today (Friday) they showed 
> a ham 
> (apparently a "senior citizen" - and I'm close to being one) who had 
> fallen 
> from his tower, purportedly at the near-70 foot level.  He was shown 
> upside 
> down on his safety harness, apparently unable to right himself.  He 
> was 
> rescued by a cherry picker, and apparently suffered little permanent 
> 
> damage, other than to his pride, I'm sure.  Thank goodness for 
> safety 
> harnesses.  And, for my Hazer system and not having to climb towers. 
>  Be 
> safe out there!
> 
> 
> 
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