Re: Can't Touch This...

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:29:36 -0500 "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>
writes:
> "Dan Cole" wrote:
> > Remembering my careless youth when I agreed to paint a
> > tower in exchange for some under the table cash (I
> > think the statute of limitations applies here)...I
> > still have the scar from the burn I got when I jumped
> > off the tower...with my hand still holding on and my
> > leg brushing up against a re-enforcing post.  "Ouch"
> > doesn't come close to describing it.
> > At times I wonder how I've lived so long...
> 
> My one and only RF burn came from the di-plexer at Channel 50
> in Windham, NH.  110,000 Watts total power.  The di-plexer
> was running warm (mismatch?) and there was a "teensy" hole
> through which a minute spark bit my finger whilst checking for 
> warmth.  At first there was no sensation - just an insignificant 
> white dimple in the end of my finger.  Minutes later it felt like
> my finger had been clamped in a vise and hit with a ball peen 
> hammer.  I guess you "never forget" your "first RF burn."
> 
> Roger (nostalging about the "good old days") Kirk
> 

My one and only RF burn came on the roof of 4 Broadway in Lowell when I
was helping put a new ground on the antenna for WLLH.  I had the honor of
laying the first radial, and when I made the cut at the end of the run
the spark jumped from the copper to an exposed part of my wrist (I was
wearing gloves)....It certainly got my attention!
df