[QCWA Hotlist] Ham Operators killed in tower collapse

[Bob Roske]

This just came via email from Bill Pastenak' Newsline:

A Hot Springs, South Dakota ham radio operator was killed and another 
seriously injured Saturday, July 16th.  This after a communications tower 
they were helping dismantle was blown over by a gust of wind.

According to Fall River County emergency manager Frank Maynard, Tim 
Anderson, K0OR, died of his injuries at Rapid City Regional Hospital shortly 
after arriving by Life Flight helicopter.  The second man, Tom Embree, NC0K, 
also of Hot Springs, was also flown to Rapid City Regional Hospital where 
surgery was performed Sunday.  He remains in serious condition.

The men were helping their amateur radio club remove a 110 foot high tower 
on the top of a near-by peak known as Gull Hill.  The tower was no longer in 
use, and the owner had offered it to the radio club, which was going to move 
it to a new location.

News reports say that several other radio club members were on the ground at 
the time of the accident.  They had taken down all but the final 30 foot 
section of the tower and were just beginning to release some guy wires when 
a gust of wind blew the tower over with the two men still on it and then 
collapsed on them.

Both Anderson and Embree are members of the Hot Springs Amateur Radio Club. 
Hot Springs is located about 60 miles south of Rapid City.  At the time of 
his death, Anderson was the club's president. 



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