On 2008-06-07, Jay Honeck wrote:
1.I didn't take anything down from tower (1500 ft)to fix. You made a
false assumption when you tried to derail the elevator with me in it
or break the cables. A fall from 1000-1500 feet would have hurt (
You rode an *elevator* to fix a radio tower that was 1500 feet tall?
Dang, Big John -- they grow them towers big down by you guys...

Yeeah. The Houston area is flat. Real flat. There aren't even hills around
there. To get good radio and TV coverage, they have to use tall towers.
There are something like 4 2000-foot towers close to each other on the
southwest side of town, and a couple of others elsewhere.

Naturally, you don't climb a 2000-foot tower to fix something. (Well, normal
people don't. I know one guy who climbs towers like you or I would walk out
to the mailbox. He's universally regarded with awe.) They put elevators on
them. The tower John's talking about is unusual, even as they go: it's got a
candelabra on top, and three TV antennas, one at each corner. There's a
platform between them with a 2-story, 25-foot-wide hexagonal building in the
middle. It's really pretty impressive, even if it is only 1500 feet tall.
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