[TowerTalk] Wasps and tower climbing

[FISCHER,GREG]

Jeez Louise that gave me the willies just thinking about 
it!

Thanks God for crank up towers....:)

Greg
AB7R


On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:06:41 +0100
  "Merlin-7 KI4ILB" <merlin-7 at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> I am glad this subject came up...
> 
> When I was doing that repeater work last weekend, we 
>noticed a few flying by us going up the tower 
>somewhere...
> 
> I do not know for sure but we think there's a nest up 
>there somewhere.We were a little higher than 250 feet 
>(that's where we needed to place the antenna and after 
>running 500 feet of rope thru the pulley, both ends were 
>not quite touching the ground)
> 
> Thanks ..now I have some ammo when I move the antenna 
>thats at 750 feet.
> 
> BTW in a post a few days ago, I said the tower is  2000 
>feet high..I was wrong..I looked it up with some helpfull 
>links sent by you all and it seems that it is only 1200 
>feet tall. sorry for that...
> 
> It was my first time climbing a tower that was not a 
>rohn 25 HI HI, and it looked like it was 3000 feet tall 
>to me...and the climb seemed taller....I have got to stop 
>smokeing....
> 
> Thanks again all...I learn something new here most every 
>day!
> Joe
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