Extremely freaked out. Climbed some sort of antenna.

[willrr1]

A much greater danger in this case was that this site has been abandoned for 12 years, so there could be missing or rusted bolts or guy wires which would weaken the mast and possibly allow it to fall over taking the (presumably) intoxicated climber with it.

Haha. No I was sober. I felt like I needed a change in my life, as the routine is getting old. There was quite a bit of rust at the bottom of the antenna, and the box beside it looked very beat up and had some graffiti on it.

What a surreal experience it would have been if the whole tower fell down while I was at the very top. That scenario reminds me of the very end of the movie 'Fight Club'.

I have read many stories of people becoming disoriented and feeling a lot of heat coming from AM arrays, but I have never understood why.

This whole situation has peaked my interest in climbing other structures. I think I might have sparked up something that I have been holding back for all these years.

Thanks a lot for all the replies guys.

 

[Averagesupernova]

...but they didn't hang around for very long after the antennas began transmitting?

Hmmmm, well I guess you didn't read my first post in this thread. What I meant by knowing people that would do this is the fact that they would climb a structure for the heck of it. Not limited to a radio tower or anything like that. My comment was directed at VK6KRO intending to point out that a person does not have to be drunk to climb a tall structure at night. There are plenty of people willing to do that for the thrill the same way there are people willing to jump out of airplanes in hopes that the chute opens.

 

[MATLABdude]

When I was back in junior high, I recall reading about the EA-6B Prowler, and recall coming across the statement in one of those big coffee-table illustrated books that the canopy was gold-tinted (looking back, probably a thin film of gold or copper thicker than the skin depth) to ensure that the crew wouldn't get cooked by the output of the jammers. Anybody have any insights?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA-6B_Prowler

 

[vk6kro]

This whole situation has peaked my interest in climbing other structures. I think I might have sparked up something that I have been holding back for all these years.

There was a story on TV of a guy in Australia who got bored with base-jumping off cliffs and gliding away from them, so he has started flying along the cliffs, trying to stay about 10 ft from the cliff. He only uses the parachute at the last minute when he is close to the ground.

He expects to die young. Most of his friends have.

I find it interesting that you think nothing of climbing a mast as high as a 47 floor building at night, but are "extremely freaked out" at the possible radiation from an abandoned mast with no antenna on it.

Is your life really so boring that you need to do stuff like this?

 

[willrr1]

I find it interesting that you think nothing of climbing a mast as high as a 47 floor building at night, but are "extremely freaked out" at the possible radiation from an abandoned mast with no antenna on it.

Is your life really so boring that you need to do stuff like this?

What does radiation have to do with heights? I am not afraid of heights, hence why I thought it would be fun. (And it was)

Does my life have to be boring in order to do something like this?

I don't understand any of your logic.