[TowerTalk] Disturbing tower picture in QST

[Lee Wical]

COULD THIS BE THE FIRST TIME ARRL PERSONNEL HAVE LIED TO US?


At 06:58 AM 10/13/2004, Jim Lux wrote:
>At 10:31 AM 10/13/2004 -0600, Markhasin, Vitaly wrote:
>>The bottom one definitely DOES NOT. They should wear full harnesses and HARD
>>HATS.
>>73! Vitaly (VE6JO)
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bill Coleman [mailto:aa4lr at mac.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:15 AM
>>To: towertalk at contesting.com
>>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Disturbing tower picture in QST
>>
>>
>>
>>I received a reply from Steve Ford, WB8IMY, who is the editor of QST.
>>
>>He assured me that all three gentlemen were wearing climbing belts,
>>although they are not visible in the picture.
>>
>>On Oct 12, 2004, at 11:32 PM, Bill Coleman wrote:
>
>
>This is much like the author of the HV powersupply article trying to claim 
>that the clipleads in the QST photo were made with HV wire.  Oddly, at 
>that time I had just spent a significant amount of time at work looking 
>for small diameter HV wire. After a couple emails back and forth, I gave 
>up wondering, and just no longer trust the technical details or 
>construction practices in QST.
>
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