<the old Andrew dehydrator <about 2 feet behind the transmitter decided to kick on. "Karoom, CHUG, <CHUG, CHUG ..."
<I swear it couldn't have scared me more if it had been a quarter stick <of dynamite. After changing my drawers, I would have been mopping the floor. One fine afternoon the tower climbers had just finished hanging the new antennas for KUNC and KGRE near Windsor CO, and we "engineering Staff" (I say that because I was an apprentice and certainly not an engineer) Anyway, I stepped out of the shack to get a coffee and take a smoke break as we'd been going all night installing both transmitters in the new site, when I looked up to see a climber finish coiling a very long rope. He swung it back and forth and gave it a hard swing and let it go.... it fell dead center on the transmitter shack right above the two engineers. Needless to say, they thought a climber had taken the short hop down and came running from the building...I had never seen two men literally goggle eyed with fright to the point one started to faint. We caught him and helped him down. Poor guys were a wreck for a good 30 minutes. George wa8sco ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
