[CW] SAQ Antenna Dance

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

I'd be petrified.

One of the first CW stations in the World, SAQ alternator on 17 kHz had
some of the volunteers dancing on the first tower --- it's miles long,

https://youtu.be/-hN_Wj0C2tg
High-Altitude Celebration at SAQ

On May 1, the Day of Industrial Culture <https://erih-workitout.eu/> in
Europe sponsored "WORK it OUT <http://www.erih.net/>," during which workers
all over the continent displayed their skills in choreographed dance. The
occasion involved thousands of dancers in a "massive Pan-European dance
event" at 1500 UTC. Participants included a dozen women and men at SAQ
<https://alexander.n.se/the-radio-station-saq-grimeton/?lang=en> in Sweden
-- the VLF Alexanderson alternator transmitter and UNESCO World Heritage
Site -- all apparently unafraid of heights.

Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hN_Wj0C2tg&t=1s>, likely shot by a
drone and posted on YouTube, shows appropriately equipped workers arrayed
across the T-bar support of one of SAQ's tall antenna support towers,
dancing to "WORK it OUT," a techno-style theme based largely on Bach's "Ode
to Joy." They joined other worker groups -- displaying various levels of
dancing prowess -- who took part in the May Day event at 41 industrial
monuments in 12 European countries.

SAQ maintains a 1920s-vintage electromechanical radio transmitter once used
for transatlantic telecommunication in that pre-high-power transmitting
tube era. The nearly century-old Alexanderson Alternator at SAQ transmits
on CW at 17.2 kHz on special occasions from Grimeton, Sweden. Read more
about SAQ in the July 2019 issue of *QST*.
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