Silly goose. ; Phooey,.
Hey .. Chicken Little .. here comes the power lines, falling on your head ..
of course, I don't use a sledge .. I use a baseball bat. Probably, might
have, should have, could have.. ... cripes, ed .. get your stuff together
b4 posting .
Seems if you "read it, must be true" .. as said, PHOOOOOOOOOEY!
Do you have info for real the cable TV installers were banging a pole? Bet
N O T !!!
Duhhhhhhhhh ... now, off to watching the first NASCAR stuff of the year ..
bet you would not let them on the track, they might have a flat tire!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed -K0iL" <eedwards@tconl.com>
To: "'AA6DX'" <aa6dx@pacbell.net>; <rfi@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: [RFI] My power line noise problems, revisited (Warning,
thisislong!) No...
| AA6DX,
|
| I can tell you of a recent instance here in Omaha when two guys working
| near a power pole were instantly killed when a powerline unexpectedly drop
| to the ground and killed both men. They were cable TV line installers
| putting up a cable TV line. The powerline never even touch either man;
| they were apparently killed due to the tall wet grass they were standing
| in. The line probably fell after they had been banging on a pole to mount
| their cable TV line.
|
| We've also lost a couple line technicians in the last few years due to
| other safety issues. If well-trained line-techs regularly die working on
| or near this stuff (and they do all over the country), what makes you
think
| the average ham will have better odds when he goes around banging on poles
| that are old and poorly maintained? Statistics are interesting; they make
| you feel safe until you're the one exception that makes up the small
| percentage who do die. I've heard of a utility in Montana that was
loosing
| one man per year over several years. Seemed only a little high to me
until
| I heard they only had a line crew of 20 in the whole company!
|
| My advice: Let the line techs take the risks working on the poles.
That's
| what they're being paid for. And tnx for the quote Charlie, but I'm not
| the RFI investigator at work. But that area falls under my
| responsibilities since I'm the RF (radio systems) guy. I leave the
| dangerous investigations work ;^) to our technicians.
|
| (Off-topic Warning!)
| By the way, has anyone seen the stats for professional tower climbers from
| last year? I just read it was 40 times more deadly to be a professional
| tower climber than a policeman in the USA. It was possibly the most
| dangerous line of work (in the US) last year. The human cost of HDTV and
| cellular is becoming very high indeed.
|
| And the Lack-of-Safety Award for the most stupid photo goes to the makers
| of those Ham Calendars sold by CQ. If you have last year's (15-month),
| look at the photo for Febr 2004, and tell me where the ham's safety
| harness/belt must be stored. It doesn't look like he's wearing it. Come
| on guys, we just lost a ham last June in Texas (I think) who was climbing
| alone (didn't hear if a safety harness was used). I wonder how many die
| that we never hear about? Searched google and found another ham seriously
| injured from a tower fall in 2002. That's one per year that is reported.
| Others may go unreported.
|
| Let's try not to look like a bunch of "amateurs" out there and get
| ourselves injured or killed. Before you know it, the politicians will
| outlaw Ham Radio due to the health risks.
|
| 73,
| de ed -K0iL
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: AA6DX
| Hmmm .. I find that interesting. I have long been a "pole thumper" ...
can
| you tell me of ONE instance a ham person was "lethallized" by clanging on
a
| power pole? Not saying what you type is not true, but .. I don't
| personally
| believe that for a moment, and wanna learn!
| 73 de AA6?X
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: <n0tt1
| | Tom wrote:
| | > Generally a bad lightning arrestor or punctured insulator fails
| | > within a few
| | > years. This almost has to be sloppy installation. A walk around the
| | > area
| | > with a 50MHz AM radio and a sledge hammer to "tap" poles would tell
| | > you more
| | > than a year with a ultrasonic detector.
| |
| | True, one should find the troublesome structure *first* with a
| | radio, but *then* use a ultrasonic detector to locate the piece(s) of
| | hardware on that structure that are causing the problem.
| |
| | Mike, of RFI Services, told me he would never be without both a
| | radio *and* the ultrasonic detector.
| |
| | As far as tapping the poles...it works most of the time to locate loose
| | hardware/connections, but it's a practice that CAN be unexpectedly
| | lethal.
| |
| | 73
| | Charlie
| | N0TT
| |
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