[IRCA] OT: cell antenna sites

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:16 AM 4/23/2007 +0000, you wrote:



>While driving around East Vancouver today,  I noticed a high power 
>electrical right of way than ran along the street that I was driving on.
>On top of one of the many towers was a cell phone antenna site.  I have 
>never seem a cell site on a high power electrical tower.  Around here the 
>cell sites are usually on a separate tower.  Sometimes on a tower with 
>other types of high frequency antennas or on a tall building.  Saw one 
>cell site on a church steeple..  Has anyone else notice a cell antenna on 
>a high power tower?
>
>Dennis,
>Vancouver, Wa
Dennis,

BAD IDEA! Anyone who climbs the tower has to be trained on how to work near 
high voltage and in
intense electrical fields. Maybe the electrical company owns the cell site.

I would climb such a tower as I am not afraid of high voltage....because 
I've been trained to do
so and have a very healthly respect for HV. If I hadn't had cancer, I would 
work a 500-kV line
energized or climb a 300-foot tower. Maybe if I went for more physical 
training and regaining
strength, I'd climb towers again.

Steve Hawkins wouldn't have to worry too much about wildlife 300 feet up a 
tower!

Eh, Steve?

73 de Charles



Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
Greenville, North Carolina 


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