That’s quite a tower. My two most unsettling antenna jobs included a 40 ft antenna perched on the roof of a 5 story building in downtown San Diego and dangling in a basket suspended from a crane to replace a cubical quad at the Daley Corporation. The quad was on a rotor at 150 ft. One of the spreaders snapped from a wind gust. I lashed the boom to my masket before removing the U bolts. The crane operator was very good. He had worked some photo shoots on the set of “The Incredible Hulk”. It was almost like a hot air balloon ride. I’ll pass on scaling 1000+ ft towers.
I failed to state that the tower had an elevator of sort inside the structure. Chief engineer rode on top and 2 in bucket. But once at 650 ft level and 1350 ft level we worked up and down lashing the heliax. I did not scale the entire tower height. We practiced good safety as far as belting off.
We used the elevator with rope through pulley at top to pull the cable to the top. Had a great ground crew too. No injuries, but 2 weekends of hard work. Was a memorable experience. I even have photo’s from the tower. Incredible view.