[TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna

[Dave Bernstein]

I can just hear Joseph Fiennes, who played Shakespeare in "Shakespeare
in Love", saying "Asbestol ... good name!".

    73,

        Dave, AA6YQ

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Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 15:16
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna


Seems that the EPA has decided PCBs are a danger, albeit if safely
handled, 
the risk is minimized:

"How can I tell whether a piece of equipment contains PCBs?

"Check for a manufacturer's label, which may give the date of
manufacture 
and the trade name of the fluid. Some trade names that may refer to PCBs

include Aroclor, Askarel, Eucarel, Pyranol, Dykanol, Clorphen, Clorinol,

Chlorextol, Diaclor, Hyvol, Asbestol, Inerteen, Elemex, Saf-T-Kuhl, 
No-Flanol, Nepolin, EEC-18, and others. Equipment manufactured after
1979 
usually does not contain PCBs. Most pre-1979 capacitors do contain PCBs,

while many pre-1979 transformers do not. Transformers within buildings
or 
vaults are more likely to contain PCBs. New equipment should be labeled
"No 
PCBs." PCBs are clear, amber-colored, or dark oily liquids. They may
have a 
faint smell like motor oil, and some contain chlorobenzenes which make
them 
smell like mothballs. Fluorescent light ballasts may contain about an
ounce 
of PCBs; a utility pole capacitor or transformer may contain much more. 
Usually what leaks from a burned-out light ballast is not PCBs but a
black 
tarry material that is used to muffle noise from the capacitor. However,
it 
is safest to assume that anything that leaks from a transformer,
capacitor, 
or light ballast contains PCBs, unless there is a "No PCBs" label on the

equipment."

Further, here's a link to a Communications Workers of America fact sheet
on 
PCBs:

http://www.cwa-union.org/osh/FactSheets.asp?ID=348

Seems that not only are doctors saying the "sky is falling" when it
comes 
to PCBs, but the very workers union that deals with them on a daily
basis.

73,
Joe
WDØM


At 12:52 PM 6/6/2004, AA6DX wrote:
>Mark, that's plumb silly.  All the xfmrs outside my house most likely 
>have that crap in them, as I live in an old house ... in an old town ..

>alongside an old transmission line .. and, I used to .. way back .. get

>my oil from the PGE .. yep, xfmr oil .. for my dummy load(s) .. I knew 
>several of the line guys, and some were hams .. ain't none of us ded 
>yet.  Worked in broadcast engineering for years .. weeeeeeepy caps, 
>weeepy chokes, weeepy xfmrs .. still alive!  SMOKING is what kills 
>people .. if you do that, QUIT! (Flamesuit on)  And quit worrying about

>the Griefkit Cantennas .. I have three of them here. I do understand 
>your query, but ... poop on the "doctors" that make their splendiferous

>living by making the populace say "the sky is falling .. the sky is 
>falling" ... HIHI .. But, one must admit, those Chicky Little
>doomsayers do make a lot of taxpayer-funded bucks!   THEY can afford
the new
>Yaesu - ICOM killer rigs!
>Mark      AA6DX
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