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Cameras are up and tested, Meshtastic is... meshing? APRS is receiving stations. Just in time too, as I pack
up, send down most of my tools, and begin the climb down, attaching the coaxes and ethernet cables as I go.
The APRS coax was a bit too stiff to put a loop in, but the ethernet cables all got generous decoupling loops
in them before lashing to the tower, and I also tried to slack the cables slightly at each wire-tie point.

By this point though I'd spent about all my energy and the heat had maxed out so it was definitely high time
to get off the tower. At this point I'd been up about three hours with no break, and I knew the journey down,
with stops every five feet or so, was going to quickly sap whatever energy I had left. By the time I got to
about the 30-40ft level I figured I had just enough energy to safely get down so I called it there. There's
enough strain relief on the cables at that height, and other "less ambitious" climbers can scuttle up there
later if they want to fill in the rest of the way to the ground.

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