[BC] The snow mess

[Mark Croom]

You don't want to forget the tool for getting the ice and crud out of the ball gap at the tower base. At the last AM I took care of I used a wooden yardstick for that--worked pretty well.

Mark
MN

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Raper <kj4hyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>Barry Mishkind wrote:
>> So, does anyone have any stories from the global warming event on the
>> East Coast this week?

>So far, we have been REAL LUCKY and dodged the storms  by sometimes only
>a few Miles. We are expecting another Storm this Evening. I have had to
>do "Broom Duty" my share of times over the years. That is where you
>Sweep the Snow off of the dish when you throw Dead Air, and / or use the
>Broom Handle to whack the Ice off of the Tower Insulators so the VSWR
>does not trip out on the Transmitter.
>--