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Radio Work Video: The Tower Climb...
This is a discussion on Radio Work Video: The Tower Climb... within the Science and Technology forums, part of the US Discussion category; Quote: Originally Posted by RadiomanATL Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza Quote: Originally Posted by RadiomanATL For some reason, I don't think your father's tower was ...
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12-16-2010, 06:21 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by RadiomanATL 
Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza
Quote: Originally Posted by RadiomanATL For some reason, I don't think your father's tower was anywhere near the height of this one. My dad's freaking SEVENTY THREE YEARS OLD...and he still climbs very very very high towers and plays with antennae. Something you couldn't do on your best day, my dear. I'll have to find a picture of one of his really good friends playing on HIS tower and post it....it's nausea inducing.....I promise! Cheers!  Still haven't changed a bit I see. So what the guy freestyles one of the largest tower? Stupidity knows no bounds. Do you have a tower in your backyard? Nah. Didn't think so. Would you even climb a "little" tower like the ones I grew up climbing? Nah. Not on your best day. You wouldn't make it past the first floor level. And I FREESTYLED my dads tower every time I climbed it (when the 'rents weren't looking). So what? It just shows I was young and stupid..... Now, look at the picture I just posted. Could you do that? No. But my dad, at 73 years old, STILL does it. (that picture is not my dad, it is a friend of his on his tower). Dumbass. 
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12-16-2010, 06:23 PM
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| Oh, and the tower pic I just posted......it's in Atlanta. Yeah. High up in the sky where you're too scared to go, "RadiomanATL". You make REAL radio men like my dad and his ham buddies look bad......so STFU.
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12-16-2010, 06:29 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza Oh, and the tower pic I just posted......it's in Atlanta. Yeah. High up in the sky where you're too scared to go, "RadiomanATL". You make REAL radio men like my dad and his ham buddies look bad......so STFU. The guy in your pic isn't even at 200 feet. The guys in the video didn't get out of the elevator until they were over 1400, then climbed the last 300 freestyle. They eat guys like your dad and his buddy for breakfast, and shit them out by lunch. From 1700 feet. |
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12-16-2010, 06:29 PM
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| This is when radio men were "real."  Not me, but I think I had glasses like that. |
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12-16-2010, 06:29 PM
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12-16-2010, 06:31 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Revere Elegant, from a more civilized time.  Used to use rubber-bands strapped between two of them to do an elegant cross-fade segue while bring something else on simultaneously. |
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12-16-2010, 06:37 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza Meh. My dad is a ham radio operator.  |
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12-16-2010, 06:41 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mini 14
Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza Oh, and the tower pic I just posted......it's in Atlanta. Yeah. High up in the sky where you're too scared to go, "RadiomanATL". You make REAL radio men like my dad and his ham buddies look bad......so STFU. The guy in your pic isn't even at 200 feet. The guys in the video didn't get out of the elevator until they were over 1400, then climbed the last 300 freestyle. They eat guys like your dad and his buddy for breakfast, and shit them out by lunch. From 1700 feet. If you only KNEW who that guy in the pictures is, you woudln't say that. Hell, if it weren't for him, none of us would even BE on this site, or any other. He's a world renowned inventor and scientist who invented and brought the original PC modem to mass production, dipshit. You aren't qualified to breathe his air, much less talk smack about him. And I grew up with him sitting at the dinner table shooting the breeze with my dad over radios and inventions and crap. This guy is a multi-millionaire from his "amateur radio" and other electronic inventions. He never has to work another day in his life....EVER.....and it's cuz he's one smart cookie. You farking crack me up.... 
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12-16-2010, 06:42 PM
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| Didn't need to work four pots at a time. One for each turntable, and two or three for your cart machines, unless all your music was on cart, then you had more, or you were probably using a board with slide pots by then. You could leave your pots up for your spots, since a competent engineer would not be caught dead dubbing them with a "burp" on the end. Voice tracking has really made robots out of talent. |
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12-16-2010, 07:03 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza If you only KNEW who that guy in the pictures is, you woudln't say that. Hell, if it weren't for him, none of us would even BE on this site, or any other. |
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12-16-2010, 07:05 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Revere Didn't need to work four pots at a time. One for each turntable, and two or three for your cart machines, unless all your music was on cart, then you had more, or you were probably using a board with slide pots by then. You could leave your pots up for your spots, since a competent engineer would not be caught dead dubbing them with a "burp" on the end. Voice tracking has really made robots out of talent. I wouldn't say that VT'ing has made robots out of the talent. Just that VT'ing has removed the talent from the talent. Hell, when you can recut the same damn break as many times as you want in order to get it "right", then there's not much point in it. |
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12-16-2010, 07:11 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mini 14
Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza Oh, and the tower pic I just posted......it's in Atlanta. Yeah. High up in the sky where you're too scared to go, "RadiomanATL". You make REAL radio men like my dad and his ham buddies look bad......so STFU. The guy in your pic isn't even at 200 feet. The guys in the video didn't get out of the elevator until they were over 1400, then climbed the last 300 freestyle. They eat guys like your dad and his buddy for breakfast, and shit them out by lunch. From 1700 feet. And why do they have to climb so high just to shit? |
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12-16-2010, 07:13 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by xotoxi
Quote: Originally Posted by Mini 14
Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza Oh, and the tower pic I just posted......it's in Atlanta. Yeah. High up in the sky where you're too scared to go, "RadiomanATL". You make REAL radio men like my dad and his ham buddies look bad......so STFU. The guy in your pic isn't even at 200 feet. The guys in the video didn't get out of the elevator until they were over 1400, then climbed the last 300 freestyle. They eat guys like your dad and his buddy for breakfast, and shit them out by lunch. From 1700 feet. And why do they have to climb so high just to shit? |
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12-16-2010, 09:35 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by JenyEliza
Quote: Originally Posted by The T As a technician that does radio work the following will show you why alot of us prefer to stay on the ground and watch these guys put up the antennas that make our systems work...from a safe distance...looking UP. What follows is an extrondinary look at a rather exclusive club of quite brave (and crazy) men that perform a task that most of us would never even consider... ...Hang on to your hats...and cookies... PLAY VIDEO WARNING!! If you are queazy, or don't like heights? You might not wish to view this video! Meh. My dad is a ham radio operator. The tower he had up next to our house when I was a kid could be seen from three counties away, and pissed off a LOT of people because they caught his signal on their rabbit ears (this was back before cable TV). My dad put the tower up himself over the course of a couple of weekends. Thank goodness my parents had a huge lot, the guy wires were massive. My dad STILL (at 73) climbs his tower and fiddles with his attennae at will. He scares the beeezus out of Mom, but he's a happy happy man, even if he falls from the tower and dies, he'll die happy. That tower we had growing up made a WONDERFUL escape system for me and my siblings once we were teens. When the 'rents were in bed late at night, we'd tippy toe down the hall to the bathroom, climb out onto the garage roof, walk down to the tower, climb down the tower, and down the hill to meet friends and go out hell raising. Worked out really good until the 'rents caught on. Last time I did it, I came home at 4 am, climbed up the tower, tried to open the bathroom window and found it locked. Had to ring the bell to get in (and my 'rents *never* locked doors or windows back then). I found two really really seriously pissed off parents waiting for me in the living room. To say I was grounded was an understatement....I think I'm STILL grounded. Ah, such good memories, those are!  ) Thanks for bringing this subject up. I needed some cheery thoughts this evening! Also ten years with the USAF in radio...The rest with Motorola.
__________________  SCL Spirit of 1776 "The truth has no agenda nor knows any time limits..." Last edited by The T; 12-16-2010 at 09:37 PM. |
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