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RE: [TowerTalk] hard hats

To: "'on4kj'" <on4kj@skynet.be>, <towertalk@contesting.com>,"'Pete Smith'" <n4zr@contesting.com>
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] hard hats
From: "Dick Green WC1M" <wc1m@msn.com>
Reply-to: wc1m@msn.com
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:02:49 -0500
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
Possibly a rescue helmet. I use a Petzl:
http://www.petzl.com/petzl/ProProduits?MotRecherche=Quick+Search&pays=0&Lang
ue=en&Activite=22&Famille=3&SousFamille=0&Produit=430&Conseil=&ProduitAssoci
e=

73, Dick WC1M

> -----Original Message-----
> From: on4kj [mailto:on4kj@skynet.be] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:47 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com; Pete Smith
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] hard hats
> 
> 
>   Could'nt that be a bicycle helmet Jim.
>   Yes there are holes in it for cooling.
>   Have a look at some fotographs from Lens Armstrong.
>   Not those from the tour de france. Wearing a helmet in the 
> tour is not a must.
> 
>   Jos
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
>   To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>   Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 8:03 PM
>   Subject: [TowerTalk] hard hats
> 
> 
>   > I have for years felt vaguely guilty working on a tower 
> without a hard hat,
>   > but the standard construction type are just too clumsy -- 
> the suspension
>   > harness inside makes them wobble around on my head, and 
> I'm forever hitting
>   > the front brim on the tower or antenna I'm working on, 
> plus it restricts my
>   > upward vision.
>   >
>   > There *must* be something better -- recently I saw some 
> "pro" tower guys
>   > working in what looked vaguely like the "almost no 
> helmets" that some
>   > Harley guys like.  Someone referred to them as hockey 
> helmets, but they
>   > looked more stripped down than that, with a pattern of 
> holes over their
>   > surface (perhaps for cooling?)
>   >
>   > Any leads?
>   >
>   > 73, Pete N4ZR
>   > Check out the World HF Contest Station Database
>   > Updated 9 Jan 04
>   > www.pvrc.org/wcsd/wcsdsearch.htm
>   >
>   >
>   >
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See: http://www.mscomputer.com  for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather 
Stations", and lot's more.  Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions 
and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.

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