Friday, September 30, 2022

Taking a Tower Down...

 Earlier in the year, I helped a friend, K4WGD,  remove a tower from a location that will ultimately be reinstalled at his QTH. I finally got around to editing a zillion photos down to the basics. I'm the guy on the tower in these pics. It was a 110' commercial Motorola tower, very similar to a Rohn tower in design. There were several antennas, feed line, guy cables, anchors, turnbuckles, etc that all had to be removed. We also discovered the based had failed at some point in time, and it became very unstable below the lowest guy cables and temporary support had to be installed during the disassembly. My buddy was the ground crew, he ran the tractor, tied and untied parts, etc. Due to early summer storms popping up almost every day, it took the better part of the week to get it disassembled and clean up the site. These photos aren't in exact order, but you'll get the idea.

 




























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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Radio Shack Wattmeter, 3-meter

 A friend gave me this Radio Shack HF wattmeter. It was originally intended for CB. I cleaned, touched up the face, and calibrated it. It's pretty darn accurate on power and SWR on 160-10 meters, and not bad on 6! Adding it to the shack :-)


 


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Monday, September 5, 2022

EuroCB Switching RX Preamp

This EuroCB rx preamp was a hamfest find by a friend. It didn't work, but wasn't a basket case. I replaced a busted gain pot, installed an external fuse holder and power cord, and tested. It worked great on 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10 meters. It can auto switch a 200w transmitter QSK. Not bad for a few bucks! Here's a few pics...






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