[TowerTalk] Fw: Welll...Sh...Shucks.

[Sam Andrews]

Roger--No wonder you're not much good at that stuff anymore--I checked out 
your website yesterday and saw the log of your big project some years 
ago--most of us geezers wouldn't have much left either!  I got a new beam 
off the truck yesterday and trying to figure how to get it up!


73, Sam  AE5L
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Welll...Sh...Shucks.


>
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> On 12/8/2010 5:49 PM, n8de at thepoint.net wrote:
>> Roger,
>> How much wire do you need to replace that old dipole?
>>
>> I've got reels of good stuff down here.
>>
>> You get the wire .. I get help with my towers/yagis ...
> Thanks for the offer Don, but I do have a spool of new wire or rather
> what's left of it. <:-)). I just hate to see the old wire go to waste.
> OTOH I'm one who doesn't even reuse PL259s.  I'd be glad to help with
> towers and antennas, but I'm not much good at tower work or lifting any
> more.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
>
>> Deal?
>>
>> 73
>> Don
>> N8DE
>>
>>
>> Quoting "Roger (K8RI)"<K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>:
>>
>>> I've been getting ready to put up a fan dipole for 75, but had wanted to
>>> record the characteristics of the single wire dipole that's up there
>>> now. Thing is, for the last two nights 75 has been great for DX so I
>>> ended up on the air instead of measuring.  I did note the settings on
>>> the AT5K tuner  had changed a bit. (not a lot) and I started seeing some
>>> reflected power.
>>>
>>> In the middle of a QSO last night the amp suddenly kicked out for high
>>> SWR. Then I noted that in bypass the SWR meter on the 756 Pro was almost
>>> banging on the peg and the watt meter was only showing 5 to 10 watts
>>> forward.  That left a lot of possibilities but the 40 and 75 meter
>>> slopers are on the same remote antenna switch.  For the moment 40
>>> appears fine with normal settings on the tuner. So that should mean
>>> every thing out to the remote switch is fine.  It could be a relay, but
>>> I suspect the old balun is toast.  That was the primary reason for the
>>> new antenna anyway.  I didn't trust that old balun and I have already
>>> wound new ones for the 75 meter sloper and the 160 half sloper.
>>>
>>> Too bad the old antenna wire is oxidized and so difficult to solder to.
>>> Guess I could stick the ends in some Muriatic Acid. I might have a
>>> couple of gallons of it around here...some where.
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Roger (K8RI)
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