Well nearly 24 hours of rain is generally a good thing! It has not rained like this past weekend since February and it was very welcome. I was just about home with the newly repaired Mower when the first wave hit me in the old truck. The pavement was steaming and it got cooler quite quickly. Same old story for Texas rains. The wave that moved through the area was truly a blessing and I was glad to see it come through. I went to Bill K5UY’s web site (K5UY.com) and watched the radar images as the storms built up and passed through from time to time. It was really nice to relax for a while.
Well this means that I will need to get the newly repaired mower ready for a full day of work in the antenna field. What I am planning to do in first pick up all the debris from the trees and the storms and then role up all the antenna cables. I will be hitting the back yard with new mulching blades and will be cutting it LOW! Once done a weed eater session in planned.
Finely I need to replace the ‘sky’ lines for the verticals. This time things will be handled differently and the coax is to be buried in conduit. Simple PVC pipe will do. There will be at least two remote antenna switches outside. I really need to have antennas worked out for each band this time I do not want to leave out 30,17, and 12 meters. Next the antennas will be supported differently. The vertical wired will not have a nylon line running back to the steak the antenna is mounted on. Instead the support line will run to the tree at the end of the skyline. If the deer break the copper wire fine! I will just have it made to give some to protect the series of antennas not tangle all of them with a stupid snagged deer that ran into it and now wants to dance around and mess up everything. The 80 meter antenna is still in the redesign phase, but should be ready for first of winter this year.
Amplifiers are still on hold for now I need to get the power supply out of storage and make sure it works correctly, isf so then it need to be integrated into a new case and prepared for service in the house. I have three 48V 30A Aztec supplied in a 19” rack case. I need to decide whether I should move them to a smaller more ‘shack friendly’ case with power leads to attach to the new amplifier.
Well that’s if for now see you folks down the log book.
73
AB5V
Randy
Well this means that I will need to get the newly repaired mower ready for a full day of work in the antenna field. What I am planning to do in first pick up all the debris from the trees and the storms and then role up all the antenna cables. I will be hitting the back yard with new mulching blades and will be cutting it LOW! Once done a weed eater session in planned.
Finely I need to replace the ‘sky’ lines for the verticals. This time things will be handled differently and the coax is to be buried in conduit. Simple PVC pipe will do. There will be at least two remote antenna switches outside. I really need to have antennas worked out for each band this time I do not want to leave out 30,17, and 12 meters. Next the antennas will be supported differently. The vertical wired will not have a nylon line running back to the steak the antenna is mounted on. Instead the support line will run to the tree at the end of the skyline. If the deer break the copper wire fine! I will just have it made to give some to protect the series of antennas not tangle all of them with a stupid snagged deer that ran into it and now wants to dance around and mess up everything. The 80 meter antenna is still in the redesign phase, but should be ready for first of winter this year.
Amplifiers are still on hold for now I need to get the power supply out of storage and make sure it works correctly, isf so then it need to be integrated into a new case and prepared for service in the house. I have three 48V 30A Aztec supplied in a 19” rack case. I need to decide whether I should move them to a smaller more ‘shack friendly’ case with power leads to attach to the new amplifier.
Well that’s if for now see you folks down the log book.
73
AB5V
Randy