[DX-CHAT] From ARRL ......The CORRECT story

(http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/10/13/11135/?nc=1) Three People Killed While Erecting Ham Antenna (Oct 13, 2009) -- At approximately 8:40 PM on Monday, October 12, a man, woman and their 15 year old son were killed while trying to erect a 50 foot vertical antenna at the home of t

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

BTW: its NOT KJ4KFF as I read somewhere , the KJ4KFF is Barbara V Tenn. Yes it is. The three people who were electrocuted were visiting a relative on Alaska Ave. It is not the people who were electrocuted who were hams, it's the person they were visiting. KJ4KFF lives on Alaska Av

Re: Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

Putting the city (Palm Bay FL) and street name (Alaska Avenue) into QRZ came up with KJ4KFF. But that could certainly be a coincidence The FL newspaper listed the accident as happening on Alaska Avenue. Urb, W2DEC --- To uns

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

>From the articles it seems that Barbara Tenn was the 76 year old mother of >Melville Braham and she had only recently been licensed. No doubt the family >was attempting to do a favor for her and may have had no idea of the dangers >involved, and it unlikely that Ms. Tenn had the horsepower to

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

t;> Radio-Family.* >> ** >> *Stay Tuned on SIX!!! >> 73 , GL & DX !!! de: Mome Z32ZM , AH6ZM, 3D2ZM* >> >> - Original Message - >> *From:* Bob Beaudet >> *To:* wn3...@verizon.net ; dx-chat@njdxa.org >> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 13

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

-- > *From:* Bob Beaudet > *To:* wn3...@verizon.net ; dx-chat@njdxa.org > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:05 PM > *Subject:* Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio > antenna > > >  Details at > > http://www.floridatoday.com/article/2

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

 Details at http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091013/BREAKINGNEWS/310130004/1006/NEWS01/Three+in+family+electrocuted+in+Palm+Bay+ 73, Bob W1YRC - Original Message - From: Ron Notarius W3WN To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [

Re: Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

Thanks Dave, and thanks for posting this to the list (just saved me from duplicating the effort)   I also couldn't find any ham with the last name of Braham living in Florida.  I hadn't thought about them being at a relative's home.   Putting the city (Palm Bay FL) and street name (Alaska Avenue

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

Details at http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091013/BREAKINGNEWS/310130004/1006/NEWS01/Three+in+family+electrocuted+in+Palm+Bay+ 73, Bob W1YRC - Original Message - From: Ron Notarius W3WN To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [DX

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

The ham is KJ4KFFBarbara V Tenn, 778 Alaska Ave Ne, Palm Bay, FL, 32907 Searched QRZ for Alaska Ave Urb, W2DEC --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

I found more information here: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-palm-bay-family-electrocuted-101309,0,4124089.story The last names are mentioned, but there is nobody with that name who is a ham in Florida. However, the video on that web page mentions that they were at

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

Details ? ? http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091013/BREAKINGNEWS/310130004/Police-ID-3-electrocuted-in-Palm-Bay&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL 73s Bob, WA3PZO -Original Message- From: Zack Widup To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 10:40 am Subject: Re: [DX-

Re: [DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

Yeah, no kidding. And considering the press' ability to get things wrong at every turn, it might not even have been a "ham radio antenna." 73, Zack W9SZ On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote: > > The MS-NBC story online is short on details. > > Anyone know who the family is?

[DX-CHAT] msnbc.com: Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna

Family electrocuted putting up radio antenna Police in Florida say a mother, father and 15-year-old son died after being electrocuted while putting up a ham radio antenna in their Palm Bay home. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33288707/ns/us_news- life/from/ET --