[BC] New respect for tower climbers!

Tom Bosscher tom
Fri Apr 27 17:05:34 CDT 2007


    I DVR'd the 12 mid feed. The problem was at the top of the tower, a 
3" 90 degree elbow has developed a leak along the weld seam. They were 
going to do a simple glue/tape repair. I would have wanted to replace 
the elbow. And when they put the glue on. the line was still 
pressurized, which caused a delay of time problem. . I even mentioned to 
my wife, when they started the climb, that I hope they opened the purge 
valve at the bottom, so there was no pressure.. But they didn't. Too bad 
they didn't have a 5 second B roll of the transmitter room. We all know 
that is what "we" here wanted to see!

Nice looking FM DA array. There were the typical media type reporting 
errors, but overall it was not bad.

    tom bosscher




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