[TowerTalk] Ham Radio family electrocuted

[Martin Ewing]

In my book, if there's any way your antenna or mast can fall on a power line
(much less a 13 kV line), it is not a safe installation.  (Whether it's day
or night.)

73 Martin AA6E

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, David Olga Stein <
elfarocommunications at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Its a shame this happened, if installed properly the AB-577 military crank
> up tower is safe with its 3 sets of guy wires and very large earth anchors,
> i did not see the Base section commonly referred to as the rocket launcher,
> at least that's what i call it. when this tower is raised Using its "raising
> fixture" its unlikely it would have fallen, could it be they were trying to
> erect the mast alone and it might have got away from them. in any case a
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> > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:01:21 -0700
> > From: xdavid at cis-broadband.com
> > To: towertalk at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Ham Radio family electrocuted
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> > Check out the last two pictures on this page. The coax makes it look
> > more like a support pole for a dipole or something, and the pole itself
> > looks like those 4 ft surplus military interlocking mast sections
> > (apparently the aluminum version). It sure splattered a large arc
> > across the patio pavers.
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> http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/101209family/indexGallery.htm
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> > My condolences to the family ...
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> > 73,
> > Dave AB7E
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> > David Kozinn, K2DBK wrote:
> > > There are a lot of details in a story now up on ARRL:
> > > http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/10/13/11135/?nc=1
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> > > 73,
> > > David, K2DBK
> > > k2dbk.com
> > > k2dbk.blogspot.com
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