[BC] Towers (WAS: Pirates...Aaarghh!)

[Scott Fybush]

At 10:41 AM 7/8/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 07/08/2005 08:48:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>tom at bosscher.org writes:
>
> >   And my wife (W8IIE) wants to put up a 70 foot tower!
>
>At that, the sounds of Hams, weeping, rings throughout the Land... <ggg>

I'm lucky to have a cooperative and understanding spouse...but even so, 
when it came time to get the TV DX rig in place atop the house a few years 
ago (a big Channel Master VHF yagi about 8 feet above the roof, and a CM 
corner reflector for UHF about 6 feet above that, which puts it about 47 
feet above ground), it just sort of worked out that the whole thing went up 
one evening while she was at work. By the time she got home, it was dark, 
so it wasn't until the next morning that I walked out back with her to see 
what she thought of the thing in daylight.

"Oh...that's ALL?" was her reaction. (Maybe I prepared her too well!)

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