Author Archives: K4ZA

Last week found W2GD and myself out in Stillwater, OK, where we’d gone to replace all of K5KC’s wind-damaged OptiBeam HF antennas. Ken has two towers–a rotating 185-footer and a stationary 200-footer. The rotating tower carries beams for 6 through … Continue reading →

Headed down to Aiken, SC, to the home of N2ZZ, who suffered an interesting (to me, anyway) fatality last year, when his 70-ft, unguyed Rohn 25G tower came over. Not much of a surprise there, but it stood the test … Continue reading →

Headed down to SC, to W4UNP’s place, actually, to take down Bill’s Mosley 40M Yagi, to be replaced by a Tennadyne VHF/UHF log periodic. Long-time friend K4MQG came over to help out with the ground crew work. In a few … Continue reading →

Juggling several projects at once… Trying to rent suitably-sized trailer to haul 200 feet of 55G to K7BV’s new NC home… Building PolyPhaser-filled Hoffman box for N2ZZ & prepping Heliax…along with several other aspects of his installation… Honey-do chores that … Continue reading →

Met up with W2GD at KF3B’s QTH, where the main task before us was taking down his large (60-ft boom) 20M Yagi from 182-ft. Of course, the usual plan of action with such large beams is to utilize mechanized help, … Continue reading →

Kudos in you know the reference, or where that TITLE above comes from…. It’s the state of mind when reviewing today’s 150 spam count. One message says I’m writing in a boring fashion, when I used to be wonderful; the … Continue reading →

Well, another road trip over and done with, and while not quite as exciting as something Mr. Kerouac perhaps would have written about, work was done and clients were happy and arrived home safe and sound. The trip (with W7WZ … Continue reading →

Live…from Charlotte…it’s weekend update. This Saturday was the “bigger” day of the Charlotte Hamfest, where I was selling off estate items from old friends W2YV & WD0FES. Interesting crowd. Interesting questions (some totally off-putting, like “Would you take $25 for … Continue reading →

Well, finally got down to St. Matthews SC & took down K4RV’s 200-ft rotating tower. Two picks with a crane out in the front yard, over the building. Relatively easy work. Had a small mishap when taking down the 1& … Continue reading →

And one of today’s SPAM writers thinks: “Hey, you used to write better…” Well imagine that. Of course, I’d be shuffling off to the corner & worrying myself silly if I thought there was any validity whatsoever in these damn … Continue reading →