{"id":7081,"date":"2013-08-02T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2023-03-30T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:30:35","slug":"man-electrocuted-putting-up-a-pirate-radio-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/08\/man-electrocuted-putting-up-a-pirate-radio-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Man electrocuted putting up a pirate radio antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A south Florida man was electrocuted when the antenna he was putting up struck a power line. Police say 42-year-old Jean Adelphonse was working in the dark Monday night when part of an antenna to be used for an unlicensed radio station collapsed and struck a power line.\u00a0 The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/broward\/oakland-park\/fl-pirate-radio-fatal-folo-20130801,0,5724539.story\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>reported that he was working on the roof of an office building where his other businesses were located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is rather unfortunate and completely preventable.\u00a0 The first red flag here is working in the dark.\u00a0 The second would be working alone.\u00a0 Safety is always paramount; whether it is working on a transmitter, putting up an antenna, working on a ladder, or environmental conditions such as heat, weather, etc.\u00a0 In my younger days, I had gotten away with a few careless moments mainly due to blind luck.\u00a0 I cringe thinking about it today.\u00a0 Nothing on the radio is worth killing yourself or anyone else over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This type of thing used to happen more often when almost every house had an outside TV antenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s be careful out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A south Florida man was electrocuted when the antenna he was putting up struck a power line. Police say 42-year-old Jean Adelphonse was working in the dark Monday night when part of an antenna to be used for an unlicensed radio station collapsed and struck a power line.\u00a0 The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel reported that he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/08\/man-electrocuted-putting-up-a-pirate-radio-antenna\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man electrocuted putting up a pirate radio antenna<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[108,110],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-of-disaster","tag-pirate-radio","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}