[TowerTalk] Fall Zone

[Kelly Taylor]

I remember one ham, back when I started, referring to “a BAY-lun coil for that antenna…”

Or the guy on Facebook asking how to make two pieces of wire, in a dipole arrangement, cover 1.8 to 54 MHz…

I can remember when you didn’t get your ticket till you could figure that stuff out on your own.

73, kelly, ve4xt 

> On Jul 9, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Mac <libbysales at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> I got a smile on this last sentence,  "The guy giving out S-meter reports " listening to the repeater"  oh lord i remember those guys from the early 70s when repeaters were popping up all over the place,  thanx for making me smile  ..  mac/mc  w5mc
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> On 7/9/2019 4:38 PM, RCM wrote:
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>>> On Jul 9, 2019, at 12:16, JVarney <jvarn359 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I see the "fall zone" issue as more of a political or social issue.
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>>> A properly engineered and constructed ham tower can be made just as safe as
>>> any other vertical structure.  There is no logical reason to single them
>>> out for "fall zone" concerns.
>>> 
>>> 73 Jim K6OK
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>> There’s the problem, “properly engineered”.
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>> We hope percentage of stupid in ham radio is less the the rest of society, but…..
>> 
>> The local with a tribander on 50’ of Rohn 25, with no guys. It would have done his neighbor’s house and car. He did take it down, after two years.
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>> “You have to use an antenna tuner, on six meters, to get the SWR out of the antenna."
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>> The guy giving s-meter reports to everyone he works… on the repeater.
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>> Sorry for starting the list.
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