[CW] SAQ Antenna Dance

[ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net]

I'm guessing they used the winch to get up to the top. Otherwise they
would be too tired to dance. There is a Diesel powered winch at the base
of each of the towers. When I was there my tour guide Bengt Dagas said I
was welcome to climb the tower. I only got partway up one of the four
legs of the bottom section of the tower and was too tired to continue.

DE N6KB

On 2019-05-12 18:34, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:

> 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 [1] in Europe sponsored "WORK it OUT [2]," 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 [3] in Sweden -- the VLF Alexanderson alternator transmitter and UNESCO World Heritage Site -- all apparently unafraid of heights. 
> 
> Video [4], 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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Links:
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[1] https://erih-workitout.eu/
[2] http://www.erih.net/
[3] https://alexander.n.se/the-radio-station-saq-grimeton/?lang=en
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hN_Wj0C2tg&t=1s
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