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Subject: [TowerTalk] [Fwd: BIG Dish Available]
From: w7ni@teleport.com (Stan Griffiths)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:23:41 -0700
On a semi-serious note, I would strongly consider going with Lynn as an
alternate driver if he wants to drive it out to you . . .

Stan  w7ni@teleport.com

David Robbins wrote:

> do you deliver?
>
> Stan Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > --
> > 66'9k'?:'<@'7:'h;'jj'7:'8m'=;':h'j@'@7'?i'=9'm<'jh
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: BIG Dish Available
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 22:14:34 -0700
> > From: Stan Griffiths <w7ni@teleport.com>
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> >
> > You may recall that I listed a big dish available for sale here several
> weeks
> > ago.  I got a bunch of inquiries about it, but they all faded out so I
> > am telling you it is still available.
> >
> > The owner and man to contact about it for pricing, etc, is Lynn Hurd
> > <lhurd@pacifier.com>
> >
> > Here are a few points of interest:
> >
> > 1.  The dish is 50 feet in diameter and rather deep, they tell me.
> > 2.  Construction is mostly aluminum except the asmuth-elevation
> > mechanism which is steel.
> > 3.  It was originally a commercially made C band uplink prototype that
> > was never completed.
> > 4.  There is expanded aluminum mesh for the center 30 feet of surface.
> > 5.  There is a hydraulic lift which is driveable and steerable (and
> > needs the hydraulic pump fixed) which can be part of the deal.  This is
> > ideal for getting to the feed point when changing bands.
> > 6.  There is some, like 100 feet or so, 2 inch 50 ohm Andrew Heliax with
> > connectors that can be part of the deal.
> > 7.  There is a LOT of  stainless steel bolts, nuts, and washers.
> > Hundreds of them.
> > 8.  My wife has evicted this from our backyard after 5 years of no
> > progress on it.  It was just too big of a project for Lynn, I think.
> >
> > I thought it was pretty nice of her to let it sit here for 10 years as
> > it was.  Somebody, other than us, needs this thing in their backyard . .
> > .
> >
> > Oh, yes.  You can have the 8.5 cubic yards of concrete too, if you can
> > figure out how to get it out of the ground . . .
> >
> > Stan  w7ni@teleport.com
>
> --
> David Robbins K1TTT (ex KY1H)
> k1ttt@berkshire.net   or   robbins@berkshire.net
> http://www.berkshire.net/~robbins/k1ttt.html

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