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<Reply # 21 on 4/7/2012 2:49 AM >
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What about the eyes? They have little blood circulation, meaning there's little to carry away any heat build up. I keep picturing hard boiled eggs.
Some towers are always powered down before they're climbed and worked on.
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
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<Reply # 22 on 4/7/2012 3:44 AM >
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Yeah. Not just the suits but it's the smallest area of the body that has a high fluid concentration.
"These induced currents are most concentrated in the ankles, where the cross-sectional area is smallest. When an operator complains of “hot ankles,” it is a good indication of significant induced currents."
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What about the eyes? They have little blood circulation, meaning there's little to carry away any heat build up. I keep picturing hard boiled eggs.
Some towers are always powered down before they're climbed and worked on.
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Your eyes can cook like bacon and you can go blind without even realizing it ... BUT that's very uncommon with occupational exposure to low level RF fields. You're eyes won't become breakfast unless you were to climb a powerful TV transmitter mast during broadcast or if you were stay within the 100m wavelength for an extended period of time. That's the reason why people who have climbed the TV towers here stay 100' to 100m below the transmitter tier.
The other issue where towers may be powered down are transmitter farms where you are picking up RF exposure from nearby towers as well ... it may take a coordinated effort between many carriers to safely work on one tower. If you choose to climb a towers located in a transmitter farm, pick a tower that's farthest away from other towers and not in the middle. Many cell sites have at least two towers, the danger of accumulated exposure is double, which isn't that much worse than one but if you're talking ten towers with multiple frequencies, maybe even wide bands, that's pushing it.
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 24 on 4/8/2012 6:23 PM >
| | | | Posted by rescueme1060
The yellow caution sign is on every single tower, is it not?
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Yeah. But if it lists a number of feet, it's a harsher RF environment.
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
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<Reply # 25 on 4/9/2012 12:59 AM >
| | | | Posted by rescueme1060
The yellow caution sign is on every single tower, is it not?
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Read the exposure guide, the last three pages discuss different signs, it's really not that long or technical:
http://www.osha.go...ola_eme_report.pdf
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slim_engineering
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Gender: Male
| | Re: Tower Climbers
<Reply # 26 on 2/7/2013 5:30 PM >
| | | | Where is the best place to get an RF suit?
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dammband
  
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 27 on 2/17/2013 2:27 AM >
| | | | Monkeybrainzzz is a crazy cracka.
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-Rex-
Location: Right behind you
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<Reply # 28 on 2/17/2013 8:31 PM >
| | | | There's a big broadcast station on the roof of this one building I've been exploring. It has a sign warning to "disconnect all jumpers" before entering. This thread is making me wonder, with all the metal and wires up on a tower, what are the actual risks of electrocution?
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Methodical
Location: Alaska
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 29 on 2/23/2013 10:11 AM >
| | | | Posted by -Rex-
There's a big broadcast station on the roof of this one building I've been exploring. It has a sign warning to "disconnect all jumpers" before entering. This thread is making me wonder, with all the metal and wires up on a tower, what are the actual risks of electrocution?
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Pretty low, really. Unless it's an AM radio tower. Never climb an AM tower. You generally don't want to climb TV or radio towers. 2-way and cellular are safer. Obviously, don't use cables as handholds. Where they connect to the antennas can be really fragile and they can suddenly pull out very easily.
And I've been told multiple times by professional tower climbers that the first place they feel RF exposure is the balls. Seriously. Incidentally, tower climbers are all kinda messed up in the head. Maybe I think that because I'm afraid of heights.
I'm sure most of you are better than this, but never ever damage a tower site. It's an instant federal offense and people spend years in jail. I read about a copper thief a couple years ago that took down a tv station for a less than a day. 3 years in prison... federal prison.
TV & radio get federal protection because of the emergency alert system.
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RuinedHuntsman
Location: Southern Indiana
Gender: Male
Don't get fooled again
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<Reply # 30 on 2/23/2013 6:16 PM >
| | | | Wow, can't say the reward outweighs the risk in this instance....I'll stick with abandonment's and crackheads lol..
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Tastee-Freeze
Location: Saskatoon. Saskatchewan.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 31 on 2/24/2013 2:01 AM >
| | | | Posted by RuinedHuntsman
Wow, can't say the reward outweighs the risk in this instance....I'll stick with abandonment's and crackheads lol..
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I think you might only feel that way because you haven't seen the view. Did you know that on relatively flat land, from a height of five feet, you can see 2.5 miles away on a clear day? Now imagine the view from several hundred feet up. Look at it like this:
D = ( H / 5 ) 2.5
D: Distance you can see. (Measured in miles).
H: Height you have climbed to. (Measured in feet).
Looking down the length of this particular tower. (600 feet, give or take a few yards.)
This was taken in Ontario corn country, so yeah. Flat. See those little bushes at the base of the tower? Yeah. Those are thirty foot trees.
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superphoenix
Location: New York City
Gender: Male
There's a madness to my methods
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<Reply # 32 on 2/24/2013 8:12 AM >
| | | | Posted by Tastee-Freeze
I think you might only feel that way because you haven't seen the view. Did you know that on relatively flat land, from a height of five feet, you can see 2.5 miles away on a clear day? Now imagine the view from several hundred feet up.
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The radiation is something I'm kinda 'ehhh' about because I can't control it. I think I'll stick to doing heights safely, like climbing bridges and hanging off the edges of rooftops, thank you.
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RuinedHuntsman
Location: Southern Indiana
Gender: Male
Don't get fooled again
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<Reply # 33 on 2/24/2013 4:14 PM >
| | | | Valid argument for sure but still not doing it...Ever haha. I'm a wimp, I know!
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Tastee-Freeze
Location: Saskatoon. Saskatchewan.
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Tower Climbers
<Reply # 34 on 2/24/2013 7:33 PM >
| | | | Posted by superphoenix
The radiation is something I'm kinda 'ehhh' about because I can't control it.
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Point taken (awesome shot btw), but you can still do research on the tower to know whether it is in the safer range, it's been a while since the last time I checked, but there's a website (http://www.loxcel.com/celltower) where you can check it out and see if the broadcast power is "Habitable."
Entry to the rooftop playground is free, if you look up enough to know it's there.
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-Rex-
Location: Right behind you
Rarely travels in straight lines
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<Reply # 35 on 2/25/2013 6:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by Tastee-Freeze
Point taken (awesome shot btw), but you can still do research on the tower to know whether it is in the safer range, it's been a while since the last time I checked, but there's a website (http://www.loxcel.com/celltower) where you can check it out and see if the broadcast power is "Habitable."
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I like that but it seems that there are a lot of missing points. I'm reluctant to register but would registering allow me to help their database?
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Tastee-Freeze
Location: Saskatoon. Saskatchewan.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 36 on 2/26/2013 12:43 AM >
| | | | Not sure, but if you register, you can also get ahold of interesting things, like the broadcast power, height and carriers. They're also working on adding a photos section.
Entry to the rooftop playground is free, if you look up enough to know it's there.
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