Prometheus Methods Tower Service, Inc.
An insured tower company based in the Delaware Valley

Greetings! I hope this letter finds everyone in good health and happy spirits. We wanted to take this opportunity to update some of you we haven't seen for a while and to remind everybody about the services we offer.

August brought an emergency situation with our friends at WILM 1450, a small AM station in Wilmington, Delaware. The 1st tier, Southeast guy wire on the station's 350' guyed Stainless tower had been accidentally snagged and severed while the field was being mowed. We had someone on site the same day to inspect the tower and we managed to replace the damaged wire and re-tension the tower the following day. All the more reason to keep your guy anchors fenced, gentlemen!!!

During September and the first half of October we were busy with two paint jobs. The first was on a 350' guyed tower owned by WLAN 96.9, a Clear Channel radio station outside of Lancaster, PA. The following week we were contracted by ABC radio in Washington, DC to complete the ongoing painting of the four 400' self-supporters which broadcast WMAL 630, a news-talk AM station in Bethesda, Md. This job was ongoing for much of September and the first half of October. Luckily, we no longer own the 1977 Dodge Tradesman (a white cargo van) we used in Texas and Oklahoma. Next time you're on the DC beltway, take a glance at this array on the outside (NW) side of the beltway about half way between the Old Georgetown Road and the River Road exits. No painting until this spring…

Since the WMAL job we've been busy with several relamp/inspections, some antenna installations and two full-tower insurance-company-type inspections. It looks like some more of the same for the foreseeable future, although we are anticipating a few medium sized new tower construction jobs in the coming months.

On the equipment front, the biggest news is the purchase of a new crew truck. No longer will some of you have the pleasure of ridiculing our 1993 Geo Metro convertible as we pull up to your tower, laden with equipment and splotched with Aviation Orange. As of Monday, 2 Dec 2002, the little trooper will be the property of the Salvation Army. Just remember - what mortal man lacks for in space, he makes up for in ingenuity… Some of our other equipment purchases include a Graco-made airless paint sprayer for large self-supporters and improved surveying equipment for more accurate measuring of tower plumb and tension.

I'd also like to take this opportunity personally to thank all of you who have given us a try. We pride ourselves on timely, quality and thoughtful service, and I hope some of the many jobs we've completed over the last six months have been a testament to those core values.

For those of you out there who haven't yet tried us, we encourage you to give us a call or send an e-mail anytime you need an estimate for an upcoming project. We want to show you the Prometheus difference.

Happy holidays, everybody!

"man is more than fire tamed…"

Prometheus Methods Tower Service, Inc.
An insured tower company based in the Delaware Valley

Greetings! I hope this message finds everyone healthy and prosperous. The spring is blowing its way into our calendars, sounding of windy afternoons and smelling of defrosting earthworms and roadkill.

We've been busy here the last few months, considering the interruptions offered by the winter weather. We began in December of 2002 an ongoing program of inspection and service of the historic Chester, PA station, WPWA. This station has, at various times, served as a popular Philadelphia-area music station, most notably as WEEZ (your country cousin) in the seventies, and currently carries both foreign-language and religious programming.

During December and January, we performed some routine service for our friends at Worldcom/Intermedia out of their local office in Boyertown, PA. The sites these guys have!!! Armed with 4X4 Dodge Trucks, chains, and heavy plows, these guys keep a clear path open to some of the most remote sites we service. Also in the first week of January we were called by one of the DC-area Infinity Broadcasting engineers to do some emergency investigative work on one of his STL systems.

Another FM story came to us in the second half of February, when we replaced the two-bay WZBT antenna and parts of their transmission line. This college radio station for Gettysburg College is located about a half-mile from the historic battlefield monument outside of Gettysburg, PA.

The adventure of this young year so far has probably been our service trip to central NY. The good folks at Backyard Broadcast contracted us to relamp one of their remote FM sites, a short self-supporting tower at the top of an 1800' hill called Denmark Hill. 18" of packed snow and a smooth surface of hard ice run-off from a nearby stream rendered this normally rugged trail impenetrable by vehicle. We ended up hiking this mile and a half hill with all of our gear. Onsite, we found a sick incandescent lighting system responsible for their dark tower. We were able to secure the system with temporary wiring thanks to the ingenuity of a McGyver-like engineer and some of our time-trusted helpers: alligator leads, electrical tape and an old light bulb. At the end of the day we had a lit tower and some interesting pictures for the engineer's office…

The big story this February has been a new part-time addition to our crew. Scott Hollinger has several years experience training young soldiers with the United States Marine Corps cliff-assault unit. We welcome Scott to the team - hoorah! We're looking forward to several large painting jobs and two new tower installations poised to begin this spring and summer - Scott's experience and gung-ho attitude will be a real asset for us.

I hope to see many of you in the near future. We take this opportunity, also, to remind you that we're always available for questions, free estimates and site surveys for any of your future projects. To those of you who have given us the nod over the last few months, we thank you. To all of you who have not yet, we urge you to try the wings of Prometheus Towers!