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Re: [TowerTalk] Fall Zone

To: Mac <libbysales@austin.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fall Zone
From: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt@mymts.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 15:39:35 -0700
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I remember one ham, back when I started, referring to “a BAY-lun coil for that 
antenna…”

Or the guy on Facebook asking how to make two pieces of wire, in a dipole 
arrangement, cover 1.8 to 54 MHz…

I can remember when you didn’t get your ticket till you could figure that stuff 
out on your own.

73, kelly, ve4xt 

> On Jul 9, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Mac <libbysales@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> I got a smile on this last sentence,  "The guy giving out S-meter reports " 
> listening to the repeater"  oh lord i remember those guys from the early 70s 
> when repeaters were popping up all over the place,  thanx for making me smile 
>  ..  mac/mc  w5mc
> 
> On 7/9/2019 4:38 PM, RCM wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jul 9, 2019, at 12:16, JVarney <jvarn359@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I see the "fall zone" issue as more of a political or social issue.
>> --------------
>>> A properly engineered and constructed ham tower can be made just as safe as
>>> any other vertical structure.  There is no logical reason to single them
>>> out for "fall zone" concerns.
>>> 
>>> 73 Jim K6OK
>>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> There’s the problem, “properly engineered”.
>> 
>> We hope percentage of stupid in ham radio is less the the rest of society, 
>> but…..
>> 
>> The local with a tribander on 50’ of Rohn 25, with no guys. It would have 
>> done his neighbor’s house and car. He did take it down, after two years.
>> 
>> “You have to use an antenna tuner, on six meters, to get the SWR out of the 
>> antenna."
>> 
>> The guy giving s-meter reports to everyone he works… on the repeater.
>> 
>> Sorry for starting the list.
>> 
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