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Tower Workers Exemplify Respect for Communications
On July 28, a television news reporter, Abby Wuellner, responded to the base of a 2,000-foot TV tower in Fordland, MO, when fire departments from four communities sent rescuers after neighbors reported hearing screams from men working on the tower. The men, who were painting the tower, were yelling to coworkers on the ground to tell them they had dropped their two-way radio and were preparing to descend. They could not continue working without the radio communications link. MORE |
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 NBC TV Program Highlights Climbers and Towers(Editor's note: If you watched the Dateline Presents episode about tower climbers and if you have an opinion to express and you can give your permission to publish it, please send your comment to the AGL magazine editor at dbishop@agl-mag.com.) Broadcast on July 21, the NBC television network's Dateline Presents episode "Tower Dogs" followed a tower crew for four months to document part of what tower maintenance company owners, subcontractors and workers face when working on cell towers. MORE |
 Lightning Plays Havoc with Public Safety Communications
It kinda makes you wonder what the grounding system was good for. Late in July, lightning struck a 180-foot-tall antenna in the municipal complex of Middlesex Borough, NJ. The bolt shot down the leg of the tower and hit the ground, knocking out emergency police communications for several towns in central New Jersey, according to MyCentralNewJersey.com. The ball of fire also disrupted telephone and Internet service to the public safety communications center. MORE |
 Tower Company Gets Rancher's Goat
Cell towers have been suspected of dangerous RF emissions, but have never been seen as a threat to goats.
The goats and cellular communications have peacefully coexisted since American Tower raised the cell tower on a farm in Hernando County on the Gulf Coast of Florida nine years ago, according to Tampa Bay 10 News. MORE |
Communications Tower Falls Victim to Possible TwisterViolent high winds, possibly a tornado, caused a 300-foot-tall communications tower to collapse "like an accordion" within its support wires early in August in Grayville, IL, according to the Evansville Courier and Press. No injuries were reported. MORE |
Failure of Phone Circuit on Cell Tower Delays Fire Response As a fire destroyed a barn, a malfunctioning Verizon phone circuit on an American Tower cell tower near Lansdale, PA, delayed the response of the Hatfield Volunteer Fire Company, according to the Lansdale Reporter. MORE |
BZA Fails to See the Light; Cell Tower Must Go
The Board of Zoning Appeals in Onalaska, WI, has denied a request by AT&T Wireless to allow lighting required by the Federal Aviation Administration to remain on the cell tower, according to Onalaska Community Life. MORE |
 Galena Mount Cell Site Controversy Plays Out in the Press
As the comment period nears its end on Aug. 28, the public is already expressing its opinions concerning the rejection of a cell site on Galena Mount in Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area through strongly worded letters to the editor. In a letter to the Idaho Mountain Express and Guide, one woman writes about how upset she was to see an auto accident in the Sawtooth area and not have the ability to call for help. Another letter notes what it calls the hypocrisy of the cell site critics. MORE |
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| Calendar |
August
MoKan Wireless Association
3rd Annual MoKan Golf Tournament
Benefiting the Foundation Fighting Blindness
August 19
Forest Park Golf Club 6141 Lagoon Drive St. Louis, MO www.mokanwireless.org
Louisiana/Mississippi Wireless Association
Charity Golf Tournament
benefiting Blair E. Batson Children's Hospital
August 21 Registration 7:00am Shotgun Start: 8:30am Patrick Farms Golf Club 300 Clubhouse Drive Pearl, MS www.lmwa.org
Kentucky Wireless Association
Second Annual Golf outing
Benefiting Kosair Children's Hospital Foundation
Aug. 28
Registration begins at 11:00 am The Quail Chase Golf Club 7000 Cooper Chapel Road Louisville, KY September
New England Wireless Association
Golf Tournament and Dinner
Sept. 8
11:30 am golf registration 5:30 pm dinner registration Bear Hill Golf Club 2 North Street Stoneham , MA 02180 www.negwa.org Carolinas Wireless Association
Q3 Tower Seminars & Luncheon
September 9
Double Tree South Park 6300 Morrison Boulevard Charlotte, NC $35 in Advance.$40 at the door www.carolinaswirelessassociation.com Pennsylvania Wireless Association
Social at the Bears Den
Sept. 10
W. Chocolate Ave & University Hershey, PA www.pa-wireless.org/home.html
The Florida Wireless Association
3rd Annual Charity Golf Tournament
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Northern Florida
September 11Mystic Dunes 7850 Shadow Tree Lane Celebration, FL www.flwireless.org/wst_page3.html
Pennsylvania Wireless Association
Golf Tournament at Deer Valley Golf
Sept. 11
101 Stoudt Rd
Hummelstown, PA
Illinois State Wireless Association
2ND Annual Golf Outing Benefiting Misericordia
Sept. 11
Registration: 7:00 a.m. Shotgun Start: 8:00 a.m. Hilton Chicago Indian Lakes Resort 250 West Schick Rd Bloomingdale, IL 60108 www.ilswa.org
CALWA Charity Golf Tournament
September 18
Trabuco Hills Golf Club 26772 Avery Parkway Mission Viejo, CA www.calwa.org
New Jersey Wireless Association
2nd Annual Charity Golf Outing
American Cancer Society, Multiple Schlerosis
Sept. 19
7:30 am Registration Royce Brook Golf Course 201 Hamilton Road Hillsborough, NJ RSVP to scurtis@cwsi.com
New York State Wireless Association
Annual NYSWA Golf Classic
Sept. 22
9 am Registration
Alabama Wireless Association
5th Annual AWA Golf Outing
Sept. 26
Registration - 7:00 am Eagle Point Golf Club 4500 Eagle Point Dr. Birmingham, AL 35242 www.alabamawireless.org/golf.html
October
The Florida Wireless Association
2nd Annual NFL Tailgate Event
to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation
Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Minnesota Vikings
November 16
Raymond James Stadium Tampa, Florida $200 per ticket www.flwireless.org/wst_page3.html | |
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