[TowerTalk] Fwd: W7ZUC It's a sad day.

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Ron,
 
Such a tragic series of events, for Jim and his family--and you.
 
Jim's experience certainly made it extremely unlikely he erred. Thank you  
for  providing the facts here. 
 
I am very sorry you lost your friend and we wish you all the best.
 
73
Chip W1YW
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/23/2014 12:19:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
towertalk at contesting.com writes:




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From:  w9rma at charter.net
To: towertalk-owner at contesting.com
Sent:   9/22/2014 7:45:57 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: W7ZUC It's a sad   day.



Dear Sir; 
I think it is about time to end the "It's a  sad day" and  put in proper 
titles…. 
I am the owner of the tower  from which Jim Linstedt fell  from.  Jim was a 
safe climber and  always used his belt and always  attached himself to the 
tower.   What appears to happened is that when he  detached from the 
tower and  was moving from point A to point B he suffered  some type of 
medical  problem believed to be a 
arrhythmia according to the coroner.  I  didn't see  when he fell from the 
tower, but caught sight of him  about 
35 to 40 ft off the ground just before he hit.  It   appeared he was 
already 
deceased at that point.   
There was  no sound of any type made when he fell, and I  would not have 
known  it until he hit the ground but for some reason I looked  up to see 
what  
he was doing when I saw him falling.  Jim has climbed many  of  the hams 
towers in this area helping whenever he can.  I used to  climb  with him 
but 
because of my own medical condition I quit  climbing sometime  ago.  It is 
very 
aggravating not to be able  to climb my own tower  because 
I built it and maintained for years,  and it is getting  harder and harder 
to find people who will climb.  
Right now I have hired a professional climber to come and  finish the  
work, 
I have no idea what it will cost but it has to be finished  and  right now 
I 
could not ask another fellow ham from the area to climb  and  will probably 
depend on professional climbers to do my work from  now  on. 
I was going to post this myself however I figured I  would  let you do this 
as it is your reflector.  You can edit  this as you  see fit as I have 
gotten 
long winded again. 
Jim was  a good friend and a friend to all of the hams in  the community.   
He served as president of the local ham club, chairman of  the  tailgate 
committee, his sister passed away two days after hearing the  news  of 
Jim's 
passing and he daughter is getting married in a week.  
Thanks for your time. 
Ronald Anderson - W9RMA