I have my cellphone alerts set to breaking news on Tucson.com. The alert came
out describing someone killed repairing an "amateur radio" tower on Mt Lemmon.
My heart sank, and I knew who it was even before his name was released. I just
now got home from work to find out the details.
It happened 3 miles from my QTH.
I first met Milt at a Field Day event with N2IC near Safford, AZ. Amazing
Dxpedition stories and photos.
Two years ago when I moved my station from KO7AA in town Tucson to KO7SS up on
Mt Lemmon, I
needed to sell everything to start from scratch. Milt made me a generous offer
for "everything". He and his son showed up with a crane borrowed from the
Morenci mine and we spent 10 hours taking
down a 3 el 40, 5 el 20, 6 el 15, and 4 el 10 on an 89' crank up. We even
pulled out 300' of
LMR-400 out of buried PVC.
I remember Milt had a body harness climbing belt, my wife took photos of us at
the top of the
tower with the crane lifting off the big beams. I was so impressed with his
energy.
RIP Milt, your passing is an epic loss to ham radio in the SW USA
73, Bill KO7SS on Mt Lemmon in southern AZ
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