[TowerTalk] finally getting the tower down

[Bob K6UJ]

If you have the same results I had you will indeed need to service
the owl once in a while.  I had an big plastic owl on the top of my tower
and the birds didn't seem to be intimidated at all,  I took it down after awhile
and there was bird droppings all over it............  It didn't get any respect at all.  :-)

Bob
K6UJ




On Mar 16, 2012, at 8:06 PM, K8RI wrote:

> On 3/16/2012 3:31 PM, chris casey wrote:
>> A while back I had some emails about trying to get the university club
>> station tower down. It is finally coming down with the help of a crane
>> coming to do some other work nearby. Getting it back up is another
>> issue, but this is a way to move forward.
>> 
>> While its down we need to diagnose both the rotor and the beam. The
>> beam is a th-6 and isn't resonant anywhere it should be, bad enough
>> the tuner in the rig can't handle it. The rotor is a yaesu of some
>> sort I don't know off hand, about 15 years old, and has an
>> intermittent problem at least with the direction indicator.
>> 
>> The tower stands literally right next to the door to the roof, and is
>> a prime pidgin roost with all the consequences that come with that.
>> I'm wondering if there is any worthwhile thing we can do when it goes
>> up to deter them? The plastic spikes etc will be invisible to rf I'd
>> assume, but there are a lot of elements and boom to cover and whether
>> that would last. Do plastic owls work? Could run one up on a pulley so
>> we could service the owl... :)
> How thoughtful. I'll bet the owl will appreciate that.  OTOH...
> 
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> 73
> 
> Roger (K8RI)
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