Posted on 11/21/2014 4:33:15 PM PST by kingattax
I used to just toss em. Sometimes they didn't even break when they hit the ground.
Tallest I ever climbed was 750'. The tower was 1000', but I only climbed 750 of it. We side mounted a db-224. The brackets didn't fit. I tossed them over the side. The ground crew had to dig them up.
Came back next day with improved brackets and finished the job.
Maybe they could consider parachuting for the speedy decent.
That's easy money. I generally do it for $300.00.
200 feet? Pffhhhtttt!
What kind of wattage are they?
I'm pretty sure they are 600 watts and there are two of them. One in the top of the beacon and one in the bottom.
Didn't do any LORAN towers, but I did some AM band broadcast antennas that were 'live'. We were mounting a repeater antenna on top of one and I got a nasty burn on the arm when the heliax ground cable touched me. It picked up rf induced energy from the driven tower structure.
Didn't think of this until after it happened. Was much more careful not to touch any bare metal on the heliax until I had it grounded.
The LORAN tower sat on a huge ceramic insulator. It supported the entire weight of the 700’ tower, all the guy wires and the top hat. The base of the tower was about 8-10 ft off the ground and attached via the “Z-feed” conductor right to the ass end of the transmitter.
It was best to be quick and get inside the structure. As soon as you touched the tower you could feel every hair on your body stand up. And at the very top you didnt want to stick your head out the top too much. Kinda made you tingle.
Thanks, delta!
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