Climbing a 1700' transmission tower.
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Bob
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After a couple of hundred feet, what's a few more? This is the one I've always liked:
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Meh. He took an elevator almost all the way up. Once you get more than
100 feet high, if you cut out, its all the same.-- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain
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Above 100 feet, you get time to think about your safety clip on the way down. 'Way too much time.
--Winston
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Yup, definitely adrenogenic! Where's my parachute? ;-)
I was thinking "BASE" jump, but who wants to climb for four hours[1] for just one jump? ('specially with those "gided" wires on the way down!) ;-P
Thanks! Rich [1] I really have no idea how long it would take - I can't get above the first step on a steplatter without going into a panic state.
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Why such a huge tower for such a dinky antenna?
John
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Modern microelectronics, of course. ;-)
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looking at the the lack of safety, I'm not sure he's doing much thinking going up or down
-Lasse
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Line of sight?
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Makes me feel wooozy.
Cheers
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The red/orange structure was the radome for the actual antenna. You can stack quite a few UHF dipoles above each other to create a radiation pattern that beams most of the power to the horizontal plane.
Just wondering, how much the ladder will distort the radiation pattern.
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I thought that also. If that was a collinear array, the ladder would affect it dramatically; those things are quite sensitive. May be they raise the ladder just to service the antenna.
VLV