ALL IN THE AIR

Radio Record, 25 March 1938, Page 41

ALL IN THE AIR

MAN WHO CLIMBS ~~ MASTS HE works eight hours a day, and he does all his work in the middle of the night! That’s the job of the rigger for the National Broadcasting Service, the man who is placed in charge of all the masts and overhead gear in the Dominion, and whose job. it is to keep it all in first-class order and repair. Last Thursday he left for Wellington after attending to 1YA’s tall mast at Henderson. All his work is done hetween the hours of 11.30 at night and 6.30 in the mornings, for you see he tHe ain perform it when stations are on air. And his job is a hazardous one, too. He has to climb to the top of 1YA’s mast 508 feet in height, and run a spanner over thousands of bolts and nuts and see that no part of the structure is rusty. Sometimes he works with a powerful lamp affixed to his cap, and other times he uses an equally powerful spotlight focused on the mast from the ground