You need to buy, fabricate, or borrow a mast raising fixture.
73
Matt
KM5VI
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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Don Tucker
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024 12:57 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] MFJ QRT on May 17, 2024
Chuckle! Got on the air two months short of 70 years ago and there was
always some bitchin' going on the about some issue by a part of the ham
community. Today we're still bitchin', just the technical content has
changed. We haven't.
Now, how about telling me an easy way to lift a mast with a TH7DX and A3WS
on it up and out of a T2X rotator enough so I can yank the rotator (broken
tooth?) out. Would like to do it straight up and yes could tilt the tower
(HG-70HD) over but still leaves the rotator problem (1/2 boom length of the
TH7DX leaves the tower still way up with same problem).
Want to avoid having to drop the antenna.
Don W7WLL
On 4/29/2024 8:42 AM, Ken WA8JXM wrote:
> I can say this: back when I started (1963) we had 300 kc/s for CW only on
> 80m and many nights it was difficult to find an open spot to call CQ.
75m
> phone had 200 kc/s and was crowded even worse. Now CW effectively has
> about 70 kHz and it's mostly empty, maybe two or three signals. Newer
> hams have no idea what ham radio used to be :-(
>
> However, the FT8 spot is busy.
>
> I'm not big on FT8, but I do appreciate it: 1) it brings activity to our
> bands. If we don't use it, we will lose it. 2) it is an efficient
mode,
> cramming many signals into a small bandwidth and decoding signals that
> we can't even hear. Great technical job.
>
> Some people decry FT8 for lack of useful communication. But at least
> it communicates useful signal reports and location which is a lot more
> than the typical "599 TU" DX or contest contact communicates.
>
> Ken WA8JXM
>
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