Great thread, so far :)
About 20 years ago, I moved to a house in a semi-rural lake community
(600 acres of water), surrounded on 3 sides by woods. Because of the
lake and spending lots of time in the yard, many residents installed an
outdoor telephone bell, to let them easily here the phone ringing.
Upon moving in, and being completely unencumbered by HOAs and CC&Rs, I
immediately put up a tower, supported by a house bracket, just outside
my bedroom.
One morning, I awoke to the sound of a telephone bell. I reached for
the phone, picked up the receiver and heard a dial tone. Yet, the bell
kept ringing. Then, with my head still foggy from sleep, it hit me...
this house had no such outdoor ringer.
I went outside to investigate.
I kept hearing the "phone" ring, then I got around to the tower. There
was a Flicker woodpecker, pounding away at the leg of my Rohn 25G.
Apparently he thought it was pretty tasty because he kept waking me up
about the same time every morning for 3 months.
73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO
Light travels faster than sound... This is why some people appear
bright until you hear them speak.
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:34:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: GALE STEWARD <k3nd@yahoo.com>
Subject: [TowerTalk] Woodpeckers and Antennas
To: towertalk reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
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Ok guys, time for a new thread. This was a new one on
me.
I have a bit of woods on my property and throughout
the years have seen and heard various woodpeckers
pecking away at dead trees. It very common to hear
them in the morning as I'm walking to the car to leave
for work. This morning as I was walking out the
driveway, I heard a metallic "rattle" of sorts like
I'd never heard. It was dead calm so it wasn't a wind
related issue. I looked up the tower and there was a
woodpecker sitting on the boom of the 40-2CD. As I
watched, he lowered his head and pecked the boom of
the antenna. It was quite loud but he/she wasn't fazed
in the least and continued, on and off, for several
minutes and then flew back into the woods. In all the
years that I've had towers and antennas in the air,
that was a first! Maybe the uncommomly hot
temperatures in this part of the country are to blame.
It's certainly taking it's toll of the mental
abilities of some of the people!
Maybe I need a plastic owl up there!
73, Stew K3ND
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