As usual, our luncheon will be at Sinbad's just south of the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero near the foot of Mission St. We meet at 11:30 and are seated at 12:30. To make reservations call Paul Black at 925-827-9511 and leave a message on his machine.

Educator of the Year - Terry Baun, CPBE CBNT.In recognition of his development of the CBNT tutorial.

Starting Balance - 1/1/03 	5675.08
Income
Newsletter Advertising		1100.00
SBE Chapter Rebate		1043.50
subtotal                   	2143.50

Expense
Postage				 356.03
Printing			 621.62
State Filing Fee		  20.00
Subtotal			 997.65

Ending Balance - 6/30/03	6820.93

With the resulting bad will generated by such moves they will have to buy radio and TV ads to woo back customers.

Roy Trumbull - Treasurer

In some cases this occurred very early in the process and not while something was being removed or hung on the tower. I've not seen any discussion of these failures or read any official determinations on the cause.

In one case, I suspect an inexperienced young rigger (who lost his life) may have been in over his head. In other cases there may have been some pre-existing problem that was missed during an inspection.

Some 40 years ago I was the bag boy for a rigger building a small self supporting tower. I put hardware and tools into a rigid cloth cylinder that he raised and lowered. He favored working from a boatswain's chair and nearly gave me heart failure one day when he kicked off from the tower and dropped 20 feet and landed on another tower face.

One thing I learned the hard way was that rigid line has a top and a bottom. The center conductor goes in one way. If that is the top, everything is fine. If you invert the line, the center conductor falls out.

This particular rigger was the most talkative person I've ever met. At the end of the day I had to backtime my exit by an hour. He had a continuous stream of interesting stories he loved to tell and it took an hour to break free.

He'd come up through the Depression and had worked a lot of jobs. He was an excellent machinist and could make antenna parts in his garage.

I had an FM antenna that kept shedding tuning rings into the blackberry bushes. He was a good guy to know.

Roy also posts the current newsletter at home.earthlink.net/~rhtrumbull but the posting is without links.