[TowerTalk] Sad news N5IA SK in tower fall

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:47:10 -0700
From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Sad news N5IA SK in tower fall

On Thu,6/9/2016 8:29 PM, Jon Zaimes wrote:

Very sad news about Milt. My friend NI6T got to know him well on a 
DXpedition, and spoke very highly of him.

73, Jim K9YC

## The sad part is....this was a preventable accident.  This is why 
you dont free climb a tower. You should be tethered to the tower at all
times.  Either use a safety cable / rail  running the entire length of the tower,
like used on commercial towers, and use  at least use  two lanyards...
to climb past guy wires, guy rings etc.   The .375 inch  EHS  safety cable
running the length of a tower is cheap to install. 

Jim  VE7RF