A Ham is Electrocuted today.. and his son.

[Paul Womble]

I saw this today on another email list.  Just a reminder to be safe during
any antenna project.

73
Paul K4FB



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fpqrp-l at mpna.com [mailto:owner-fpqrp-l at mpna.com] On Behalf Of
Perry FP#582
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 6:33 PM
To: FPQRP POST
Subject: [fpqrp] A Ham is Electrocuted today.. and his son.

Sent to me..Everyone take care and look up...
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We all need to take power lines into consideration as this sad story
indicates

Subject: A ham and his son electrocuted?


KC0TIG and his son were electrocuted today while trying to put up an
antenna.

<http://tinyurl.com/6btuas>

<http://www.kmbc.com/news/16871003/detail.html>

<http://tinyurl.com/66988d>

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THESE NEWS ITEMS MOTIVATED CHUCK KRALY, K0XM, TO WRITE THIS MESSAGE:

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I just saw this one on the news, and had to write a this message to be
  
passed on to the ham community, especially the newer hams.

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We lost another ham today, and it is a very sad event.
The parties
involved, were installing a Comet FIBERGLASS antenna, that came in contact
with a single 7620V power line. Now how do I know what the exact voltage is?
I built and maintained the substation that fed this circuit. I spent 27
yrears as a substaion technician for the Board of Public Utilities. I am
still in this field. So, I feel I have some experience in what I am passing
along.

In a nutshell, the location of the accident was a few blocks from the
substation. The wires you see going thru the residential areas are AT
MINUMUM 7200 volts from each wire to ground, and between any two of them is
13,800 volts. This is nothing to play with at any time. I have
  
seen a fault TOTALLY vaporize 1" copper buss (which is solid). Imagine
  
what it can do to a human.

Each wire is fed from what is called a 3 phase line.