Niles man dies after falling from ham radio tower

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By Beth Boehne

Story Created: Jun 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM EST

Story Updated: Jun 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM EST

WATERVLIET TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — An experienced installer of ham radio equipment has died after a 60-foot-high radio tower he was scaling during an antenna-installation competition collapsed beneath him.

Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey says 57-year-old Larry Prelog of Niles died Sunday, a day after falling during the event in Watervliet Township, about 60 miles south-southwest of Grand Rapids.

Prelog and several others were competing to install antenna towers that receive amateur radio transmissions from around the world.

Bailey tells The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph such towers are stabilized with guy wires. It's not known why the structure that Prelog was climbing gave way.

Prelog died at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo.

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Information from: The Herald-Palladium, http://www.heraldpalladium.com

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