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Don’t want to get fried climbing tv tower

Don’t want to get fried climbing tv tower

My buddies and I we’re hopping to climb a tv tower and although I think I generally have a decent understanding of how rf works, I’m not exactly sure what erp is low enough that you won’t get fried. I was hoping to potentially climb the antenna but I’m also fine with not doing a top out of the tower if that means avoiding getting burned by the rf.

Here’s some tower info (we’re doing the 42.8kw one)
Technical information
Licensing authority
CRTC
ERP
CHRO-TV: 100 kW
CHRO-DT-43: 42.8 kW
HAAT
CHRO-TV: 162.9 m (534 ft)
CHRO-DT-43: 177.5 m (582 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
CHRO-TV: 45°50′2″N 77°9′49″W
CHRO-DT-43: 45°13′2″N 75°33′49″W

Anyways, any advice about the tower would be appreciated especially about how high we can climb without getting friend and where we should climb faster/rest. Thanks.

u/Direct_Reception8992 — 16 days ago