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 MindHacker
   
Location: Suburbs of DC
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If you spot a terrorist arrow, pin it to the wall with your shoulder.
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<Reply # 180 on 12/21/2009 4:18 AM >
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Would a few spare bulbs and a harness suffice as credibility props?
"That's just my opinion. I would, however, advocate for explosive breaching, since speed and looking cool are both concerns in my job."-Wilkinshire |
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| |  | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 181 on 12/21/2009 4:21 AM >
| | | | Posted by MindHacker
Would a few spare bulbs and a harness suffice as credibility props?
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You can't be seen from ground level at night anyways, even when people are looking for you.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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bfinan0
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 182 on 12/21/2009 4:30 AM >
| | | | Posted by TheVicariousVadder
You can't be seen from ground level at night anyways, even when people are looking for you.
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That's my plan...just wait at/ continue climbing up to 880 feet until the cops leave, if they try. It's 1/6 mile up, they'd be hard pressed to identify/contain people at that distance even horizontally.
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aurelie
  
Location: pacific northwest
Gender: Female
high tech:: low life.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 183 on 1/12/2010 10:50 PM >
| | | | Posted by thoughtcriminal
This was likely a GWEN tower. Compare with the drawing in this article:
http://en.wikipedi..._Emergency_Network
The giveaway is the extra set of wires radiating from the top, more than the three necessary for structural support. This "top loading" is used for antennas on longwave frequencies like those that were used by GWEN.
The list of sites in that Wikipedia article is not complete, there were at least 2 sites in Maryland, and at least one in every state. Some were recycled for use by the Coast Guard, others abandoned.
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Ooh, i just saw this.
I assume that if it IS a GWEN tower, then it is climbable? I suppose i'll have to push someone into it to find out.
reckless thoughts abide; anachronistic and impulsive.
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DJ Craig
   
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Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Male
Break the Silence
| |  | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 184 on 2/26/2010 6:06 AM >
| | | | So, while on a long road trip today, I found this radio tower:
(sorry about the picture quality)
Looks to me like at AT&T long line. It's attached to an AT&T building. It's more rural than most AT&T towers that I've seen, and quite a bit higher. What's weird is, when I was trying to pinpoint it's exact spot after seeing it from the interstate, I looked up the FCC database of antennas and did a search for radio towers within 10 km of my current location based on exact lat/long coordinates. The nearest antenna in the FCC database was 15 km away and definitely not the right tower. Why would this tower not be in the FCC database?
Anyway, I'm hoping to climb the tower eventually and just wanted to run the idea by the experts here before I tried it since I don't really want to become deep-fried DJ. 
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| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 185 on 2/26/2010 2:13 PM >
| | | | Posted by DJ Craig
So, while on a long road trip today, I found this radio tower:
http://farm5.stati...846_6a6981ce69.jpg
(sorry about the picture quality)
Looks to me like at AT&T long line. It's attached to an AT&T building. It's more rural than most AT&T towers that I've seen, and quite a bit higher. What's weird is, when I was trying to pinpoint it's exact spot after seeing it from the interstate, I looked up the FCC database of antennas and did a search for radio towers within 10 km of my current location based on exact lat/long coordinates. The nearest antenna in the FCC database was 15 km away and definitely not the right tower. Why would this tower not be in the FCC database?
Anyway, I'm hoping to climb the tower eventually and just wanted to run the idea by the experts here before I tried it since I don't really want to become deep-fried DJ.
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Yeah, that's a long line. The horns are probably long dead, which means the only thing to watch out for are cell transmitters.
One way to tell beforehand is there will be thick black cables running up one side to the transmitters and there should be a running cabinet with a telephone service provider's logo and phone number, if you wait around at the bottom of the tower long enough, you will hear fans kick into high gear and then back and down, but there should be some noise coming from the fans.
The tower should be marked at the bottom with one of four signs:
1. "Above ___ feet RF is above save working levels
2. "Within ___ feet of an antenna face, RF is above save working levels"
3. "Within 3-5 feet of any antenna face RF may exceed safe working levels"
4. "Beyond this point RF may exceed safe working levels"
I believe that the above signs vary in degree of danger:
1. specifies the height you can go before reaching the antinode
2. specifies the distance from transmitter to antinode
3. general warning sign, I've seen this one a few times, I believe it also specifies the distance from transmitter antinode
4. is a standard warning sign like "Danger: No Trespassing" "Warning Asbestos" but I would say that towers that carry no specific warning signs are the safest to climb.
You may feel electric current running through you if you hit an antinode, it's how on the water tower we climbed my hands got shocked. It was probably an antinode that fried uLive's cell phone.
Even if there ARE active cell transmitters, all the towers I've climbed in the past also have active transmitters, follow warning signs and use your head.
I still can't find ANY data on Overcliff Tower other than on a state--town specific list of long lines towers and there were active transmitters there. The ladder was questionable at Overcliff, if maintenance hasn't been performed on your tower, you may find a similar case. You might want to bring rappelling gear and if something should happen, like the ladder breaking off the tower (a legitimate concern for my return trip to Overcliff) Grab onto the lattice work and rap down. You can always bring it, leave it at the bottom and check the ladder, if it gets questionable go back for it.
I found a town specific list of long lines towers for every state so I'll pm you that but I think the information here should be public and open to debate; I'm not an expert but know more than most others.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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Louie
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<Reply # 186 on 2/26/2010 6:34 PM >
| | | | Hey vadder, I know you want to climb the Brightwood tower
But look at where the base is, Im not saying it cant be done but its in a police parking lot:
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 188 on 3/3/2010 1:32 AM >
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Awesome. 
So what's the shortest tower you've jumped off of? I've heard 400' is bare minimum, long lines like 51/52 don't often get that high.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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MindHacker
Location: Suburbs of DC
Gender: Male
If you spot a terrorist arrow, pin it to the wall with your shoulder.
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<Reply # 189 on 3/3/2010 5:57 AM >
| | | | Posted by TheVicariousVadder
So what's the shortest tower you've jumped off of? I've heard 400' is bare minimum, long lines like 51/52 don't often get that high.
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I thought it was 200 w/ a drogue if your 'chute is fully packed, a bit less if it's just gathered and held.
What I'm more curious about is how much skydiving background you have?
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Louie
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<Reply # 190 on 3/3/2010 6:23 AM >
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These give me a raging tower b0ner
such as
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RailGuy88
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<Reply # 191 on 3/3/2010 8:33 AM >
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Yeah, but if your chute gets tangled in the guy lines, you're screwed!
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 192 on 3/3/2010 3:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by MindHacker
I thought it was 200 w/ a drogue if your 'chute is fully packed, a bit less if it's just gathered and held. |
He PM'd me, said his was ~175' so whatever I heard is wrong.
What I'm more curious about is how much skydiving background you have?
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Me? None ... yet. I'll be correcting that this summer, though. I still have three years of college to go through before I'm done, and I won't start basejumping until I graduate (or maybe before, but not for a few years)
I have done rope jumping before in high school until one day someone came in to inspect ropes course and reprimand the teachers for using dynamic line, which probably had dozens of short (80') falls on it ... rated for 12 falls my ass. ;)
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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MindHacker
Location: Suburbs of DC
Gender: Male
If you spot a terrorist arrow, pin it to the wall with your shoulder.
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<Reply # 193 on 3/3/2010 6:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by TheVicariousVadder
Me? None ... yet. I'll be correcting that this summer, though. I still have three years of college to go through before I'm done, and I won't start basejumping until I graduate (or maybe before, but not for a few years)
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Haha, nah, I meant Epiphany. I always wanted to basejump, but from what I hear you need to skydive a few dozen times first.
"That's just my opinion. I would, however, advocate for explosive breaching, since speed and looking cool are both concerns in my job."-Wilkinshire |
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epiphanybase
Location: h town
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 194 on 3/3/2010 10:16 PM >
| | | | i have around 1100 jumps and about 220 in the 'fixed object' variety.
I had about 750 skyjumps when i started with BASE.
175' long lines tower is the lowest i've jumped. Static-Line
it was retarded[ly fun]. never try it
1850' is my highest on a broadcast tower
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 195 on 5/30/2010 8:31 PM >
| | | | Saving thread from archiving ... I haven't climbed a cell tower since December:
I should change that.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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zomgw00t
Location: Richmond, VA
Gender: Male
heh heh heh
| | | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 196 on 6/2/2010 2:12 AM >
| | | | On the way back from a recent camping trip, I found this tower. I am pretty sure that this tower is not active.
But I am curious what these two things were...
~Chappie
"By the early 1970s, techniques of tape manipulation were being superseded by synthesizers, especially the Moog synthesizer, which could theoretically produce any type of pitch or timbre, but usually made a sound like a cat chewing a bee." ~ BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Alchemists of Sound |
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I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
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<Reply # 197 on 6/2/2010 2:31 AM >
| | | | Ahh man that's a really complete one! I've never seen those cages open or with all the mechanics intact like that.
Those allow the angle of the horn repeaters to be adjusted , I believe.
And yep, even at full size I don't see any active transmitters ... totally dead.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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yohan12
Location: Chilliwack B.C.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 198 on 6/3/2010 1:04 AM >
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that is freaking awesome. I wouldn't have the balls to basejump but im going to try and climb a tower this summer
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DJ Craig
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Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Male
Break the Silence
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<Reply # 199 on 6/3/2010 2:48 AM >
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I'm intrigued by this tower. What leads you to believe it's abandoned? My first thought was that those things were some kind of manlift, but actually I think Vadder is right.
Posted by yohan12
that is freaking awesome. I wouldn't have the balls to basejump but im going to try and climb a tower this summer
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Just do all your research first...radiation levels can be deadly.
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