Keep your eyes open at Flea Markets, not necessarily the Ham type - for
boxes of house wiring - usually 250 feet long rolls of say
14/3........usually you can offer someone five or ten bucks for
these......but a male and female plug from the home center/hswe
store.....tape it to the tower and voila, you can have 110V (lil voltage
drop) at the top of the tower whenever you plug the male end in down on the
ground....since house wiring is soft copper it is easy to pull up the
female end of the "extension cord" on your work rope and then wrap the
malleable copper wire around the leg of the tower, it will stay there until
you unwind it when done.......
....this is also very nice to have if you have to use an electric drill up
in the air, to drill out a stripped bolt, or somesuch - the battery drills
just don't cut it unless you have very deep pockets for the really good
ones!
Just a thought.........oh yes one other point, its:
less than two weeks til the Florida QSO Party!
73, see you in the FQP
Jim, K4OJ
Florida Contest Group - visit our website at:
http://www.4w.com/deemer/fcg.htm
What's an FQP? The Florida Contest Group is pleased to announce the
rebirth of the Florida QSO Party, check out the FQP website@:
http://home1.gte.net/wd4ahz/fcg/ssqp.htm
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