[MRCA] safety reminder

[Rob Flory]

This is a tough go when you put up big stuff when you are young and strong
and ambitious, leave it up to deteriorate for decades, and then it becomes
really expensive to dismantle with a crane.

I have always preferred organic antenna supports and antennas put up from
the ground.  In my youth helped put up beams with 40 foot booms at up to
130 feet high but those are distant memories.

RF

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:51 AM W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> wrote:

> A stark reminder of the dangers in this hobby.
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> https://www.wmur.com/amp/article/ham-radio-operator-killed-when-tower-he-was-dismantling-collapses/28570300
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> My elmer around 1980 told me many-a-story of ham deaths. Of his friends,
> one died in exactly the same way to this story. Another touched HV with one
> hand and the other, lets just say, was not in his pocket where it should
> have been.
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> Be careful out there.
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> 73 Eugene W2HX
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