I saw some footage of the new KTXA 21 antenna being put in via air crane and they had to wait 10 hours in the cold and windy air at 1600' AGL! Why we always forget about these people.... I don't know.
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I feel sorry for the Cedar Hill Tower engineers
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Saw that too. Just hard to believe they can do that job that way.
So... obvious question... if they had to wait that long at that altitude... how did they have lunch.. or go to the bathroom? Both things would be required for them to do this job well.
So... obvious question... if they had to wait that long at that altitude... how did they have lunch.. or go to the bathroom? Both things would be required for them to do this job well.
eskipper411 said:
Is that footage available anywhere on line?
Wouldn't it suck though if they dropped it and it fell?
I am with Fred on this on, If memory serves me correctly, I think one of the Waco stations was doing maintnence and as they were hauling a piece of equipment up or somthing and snaped one of the guy wires and the tower toppled. I do feel sorry for the engineers though for being at that altitude for that long in thoes conditions.
Wasn't Waco. 20 + years ago several members of a tower crew near Houston died when a piece they were hauling up the tower became dislodged and hit the guy wires causing the whole 1900 foot tower to collapse. (there's a VERY disturbing video of this collapse on youtube)
In October 1996, 3 members of a tower crew died when KXTX's tower fell in a similar operation at Cedar Hill.
In October 1996, 3 members of a tower crew died when KXTX's tower fell in a similar operation at Cedar Hill.
The Waco accident was in November 2004. An Army Black Hawk helicopter hit the guy wires of KXXV's tower, but did not cause it to collapse.
Wasn't that the Senior Road Tower site?tested said:
A coworker told me years ago he was sleeping at an AM directional site under construction near Austin when he was awakened by the sound of a helicopter. He came out of the transmitter building in time to see a military helicopter doing an early morning slalom run through the directional array. Just for fun?
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