I wanted to make sure you saw a picture of THREE 10 foot sections of the tower put together.
Yesterday my husband made a mounting bracket for the rotator controller that will live in the office. He hung the box nicely on the bottom of the shelf in the ham radio corner of the office. It’s now ready to be attached to the tower rotator.
Yesterday we also carried the 4th 10 foot section of the tower, the section that includes the rotator, out to the yard. It had started to rain, and it sure was welcome relief from the heat!
My husband attached the 4th section to the tower yesterday. Today we started trying to lift up the end in preparation for adding the 9 foot square antenna. (We’ll need to get the end up at least 10 feet so we can attach the antenna in preparation for wiring of the rotor and the antenna.
Here’s a view from the rotator end.
And a view from south of the tower so you can get a feeling for how LONG this thing is. Add another 5 feet or so for the antenna and the tower is 45 feet tall. The next step is wiring the rotator and then we’ll bring out a ladder to try to move the end up where we need it. It’s coming along!
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This looks like a big job, Linda 🙂
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The drilling and making the concrete pad was a big job, and this part now is not fun and games, but we’ll get help from our friend Dave with standing it up and attaching the guy wires. This is something my husband has wanted for a long time, so I want him to be able to talk to people on the radio, if possible.
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I didn’t know, this was still used in US. Here I think, mostly are working by the internet.
All good luck with your project 🙂
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Thank you, Irene. Ham radio operators started out as kind of a club, then moved into concentrating on communications during disasters, when regular avenues aren’t working. Thank you for your good wishes.
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This kind of radio sounds very smart, Linda 🙂
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I hope it works well for my husband. He belongs to an amateur ham radio club in Fort Smith and he’s excited to learn more.
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Thank you for the link to your site. I’ll pass this on to my husband.
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