Author Archives: K4ZA

Got K4VZA’s  tower base (AX-64) installed.  Don’s first tower. He’s anxious to some some HF, which is always welcome news. Planned antennas:  Cushcraft A4-S & Hy-Gain 4L 6M Yagi, both re-furbed take-down items. Then Joe (KI4TZ) & I headed over … Continue reading →

The spam this week was literally all over the map, in terms of offering a vast variety of marital aids, penile enlargement methods, dating secrets, Windows 7 instructional avenues, praise for my writing style (all under the HIRE K4ZA link, … Continue reading →

Well, after a foul up last month, I was hoping that local distributor (Rosenberger Leoni) would follow through successfully with my current order, but such is not the case. My Heliax is still in New Orleans, for some unkown reason, … Continue reading →

Made the long drive (it’s getting further away…) to Chicago area, where I was to help W2GD with a Silent Key (WA9KHT) crank up tower takedown. A tad frustrated to find two cancellations from other IL/IN clients once I got … Continue reading →

Wednesday’s work day fourn me over on the Eastern side of the state, doing yet another Silent Key tower takedown–this one 80 feet of 25G which was used by W4WH. Old client & Pal, K4ESE (Mr. Neill Shave & A … Continue reading →

Late yesterday afternoon, went to storage site to load trailer w/some AB-1678, which KI4M had purchased a year ago, to deliver to Shane up in Morganton, NC. Found trailer with a flat, so stuck a shaky, shabby spare on & … Continue reading →

On-going troubles with N2ZZ’s 3L SteppIR were resolved today. Turned out to be a wiring mistake made during initial construction. The fix was for me to remove the beam from the PVRC mount, twist & lower the boom down the … Continue reading →

Found us just across the border in SC, working on K4ATX’s US Tower crank up. Got the chrome-moly mast installed, along with the new Orion 2800 rotator. Then attached the 2m & 432 Yagis on mast, secured the coax cables, … Continue reading →

I need one because I need to go back in time–to write about the workload. But here’s a jaunt down memory lane, regardless. A couple weeks back found us down in Dawsonville, GA, to install 120-ft of 45G for commercial … Continue reading →

Joe & I spent a couple days in Raligh, Thursday & Friday, suffering through that 108-109 degree heat index weather. Took down W4AG’s 2L cubical quad & Rohn 25G tower, then darted over to W4HJZ’s, to get his AX-64 tower … Continue reading →