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Re: Topband: BRUTE FORCE

To: Bill and Liz McHugh <magoo@isp.ca>
Subject: Re: Topband: BRUTE FORCE
From: W5JR - Mike <w5jr.lists@att.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:33:52 -0500
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Very, very dangerous to whack a wooden utility pole. Loose hardware, rotted 
pole, poor ground, loose back guy - all sorts of ways to be injured. Let the 
utility company check it. 

tnx
Mike

On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:06 PM, "Bill and Liz McHugh" <magoo@isp.ca> wrote:

> As you get closer and closer to a series of poles you suspect might be the 
> cause of your noise, take along an associate with a 20 lb sledge hammer.  
> Have him whack each pole while you listen for a change in the "sound" of the 
> noise.  I can tell you that this method works....sometimes too well.  A 
> friend who is now an SK once hit the suspect pole a good one with the result 
> that the hardware and the line parted company with associated fireworks.  
> Needless to say, that pole received a complete set of new hardware and the 
> noise disappeared.
> 
> 73, Bill VE3CSK
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