Category Archives: Blog

Holiday…but spent the morning in the shop building parts for K4MK’s installation project tomorrow. Kent has a 6M vertical he wants us to put up after we get the new Prosistel 61-D under the 75M Yagi. He has this looooonnnngggg … Continue reading →

and writes…and writes… The proofs from ARRL’s book editor arrived, & have been busy updating the tower book for the past two days. Nothing major, but a few typos & extra words filtered through, etc. And of course, there is … Continue reading →

Spent a couple hours out at the “old QTH,” finally get the topmost guys installed on the 25G tower. Frustrated after the last attack from vandals, & half-worried they’d come back & finally remove ALL the guywires, but anyway, the … Continue reading →

Headed North last Thursday, with Shaun, for various tower jobs. First up: Kam, N3KS, where our job was to swap out his old (relatively small OptiBeam), for the largest one they make–which includes 3L on 40M! Obviously a crane job, … Continue reading →

spent down in Darlington, SC, with Buddy, N4BY, installing a temporary base on 190-ft of 25G we’ll soon be taking down. As often happens, the tower was installed with the base “below grade,” and after 20 years, the siderails had … Continue reading →

like the proverbial lion, apparently, at least according to the local weather folks. But the forecast was changed (the storm is travelling slower than expected), so we are in the grips of something more akin to a truly pissed off … Continue reading →

Home from the trip to Gran Canaria….& what a trip it was! This is that oft-wished-for magical radio location—a mountain top surrounded by salt water! The focus of our trip (W2GD & I) was to determine how to make this … Continue reading →

…was right. There will be six more weeks of winter! And we seemed to experience most of them this past week, where once again we found ourselves (W2GD & I) at the NR5M radio ranch, getting the station ready for … Continue reading →

As a contester, I’ve been known to do some crazy stuff/things. This weekend’s trip to the Jersey shore, to join the W2GD multi-of effort in the CQ 160M DX Test, may qualify. Not that contesting, per se, nor the 2-land … Continue reading →

Today’s date? A palindrome…neat~! Home again at midnight, from another work week in Texas. More NR5M rebuilding. The focus this trip was to have been refurbishing the old 15M multiplier tower & the 10M stack tower. But that’s not how … Continue reading →