[TowerTalk] *&%$*# BEAM UPDATE

[Stan Griffiths]

Hi Ted,

Congratulations on figuring out how to do this without climbing the crankup
at all!  Great job!  You will be an inspiration for others with crankups in
trouble.

Stan  w7ni@teleport.com

Ted & Joyce Wilhelm wrote:

> First let me thank all the tower talkers who took time to reply to my
> recent problem....I checked the starting capacitor first as that seemed
> like the easiest to get to and was mentioned most often,,,,It was
> good...Considered variopus ways of lowering and blocking and even had
> the offer of a friends small 30 foot bucket truck...I shot a rope over
> the boom and released the brake and found once it was beyond a certain
> point (should have done that right away) it would start operating OK
> when I tried to go back it stalled in the same spot...Pulled rope in
> other direction and it started running again. Hmmm something definetly
> wrong in rotator and it was at that point I decided it was time to crank
> it down (I could now get around the tree to put it in nested
> possition)Then I went ahead and tilted it over to remove the
> rotator.Pulled the rotator apart and found some teeth missing on the
> ring gear.Plan to have the rotator completely checked out befor it goes
> back up...OH WELL back to operating off the butternut vertical I used to
> use..Some signal is better than no signal....Well THANKS again for all
> the great comments and suggestions.
> 73 Ted  "HUH"
> lifes to short for QRP
>
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