Hawk perched on my tower

**Duke** · 09-11-2010 03:13 AM

I caught a big red tailed hawk using my antennas for a lookout. This is the hawk on the top of my tower.

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**Duke** · 09-11-2010 03:14 AM

And using my vertical as a perch.

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**thx1138** · 09-11-2010 08:56 AM

Did you key the mike and send out a few KW's of rf?

**Laser-InterceptorUSA** · 09-11-2010 09:04 AM

Nice stack! I had a Bald Eagle that made my 110' Rohn 55 it's favorite hunting spot as it overlooked 200 acres of flat pasture land.

Cliff

**Duke** · 09-12-2010 02:23 AM

Originally Posted by thx1138

Did you key the mike and send out a few KW's of rf?

No, hawks are allowed to perch on my tower. If I see anything else they get shot at with my BB gun.

**Duke** · 09-12-2010 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by Laser-InterceptorUSA

Nice stack! I had a Bald Eagle that made my 110' Rohn 55 it's favorite hunting spot as it overlooked 200 acres of flat pasture land.

Cliff

Thanks, it works very well and covers 3.5mhz thru 144mhz. Stacked tribanders, stacked 2m yagis, a 40m yagi and a 80m inverted-L. I modeled it with EZNEC before I put it up to make sure the antennas would not destructively interact with each other. I took 1st place in the pacific division during the last DX contest and I take 1st place regionally in every 10m contest I enter so it works pretty good from my small city lot.

**Stealth Stalker** · 09-13-2010 11:56 PM

That's gotta be a good luck sign! Cool pic of him flying off!

I used to work part-time at a two-way shop installing public safety radios and equipment. We had a 500 foot tower right there at the site. Frickin' buzzards would always perch up on the crown. The cool thing was, then they would fly off, they wouldn't jump and flap their wings. They'd just FALL forward, dive a good hundred feet or more, then open their wings and soar away with no effort. Very cool.