Re: [AMRadio] getting onto hot AM towers

2009-01-13 Thread neal Newman
These days my tower climber uses a 6 foot fiberglass ladder to Enter onto a tower leg. since most of the stations I maintain are diretional. We usually reduce power and switch to Non-D mode so he can Climb safely. When designing a buildout of a directional we try to incorporate at least 2

[AMRadio] getting onto hot AM towers

2009-01-12 Thread John Lyles
When I worked in B'dcasting, I had a shunt fed (unipole) antenna on 1260 KHz that i maintained, and as long as you didn't contact the skirt with your back, your could just walk up and climb the tower, as the base was grounded. This was before worrying about high RF fields, although the