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Outside work at SJ2W

Posted by sm2wmv on May 23, 2010 Comments Off

This weekend I went down to SJ2W pretty early on Friday. SM2XLL who was going out to his mobile home gave me a ride out to the QTH. On Saturday SA2AWO, SA2YLM, SA2AXJ showed up as well and together with SM2XJP and SM2XLL we erected the broken 80m vertical again. It all went very smoothly and I did work in the Baltic contest with a decent result. I also hooked it up to the openASC system so now I can switch the directions with that box and it worked very well.

On Saturday evening I spent time sorting out some guy wires I had lying around and also prepared the 7/8″ coaxes to be put up in the 60m tower. On Saturday evening I got a mail from SE2T who asked if I needed any help on Sunday and I said yes so he came up and helped us to pull the 7/8″ cables up inside the tower. So now the tower is equipped with 2 pcs of 7/8″ cables up to about 37m in the tower, where a box containing the phasing hardware for the stacks will sit.

Next weekend if weather permits, I and SM2XJP will head down to the old SM3 QTH to take down a 18m high tower I have there and also some yagis and tower sections I got lying around.

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Tower work

Posted by sm2wmv on October 31, 2009 Comments Off

Today SM2XJP came over to assist me a bit while I took down the tram wire from the tower, making it possible for us to rotate the whole beauty. It went pretty smoothly even though it started to rain and got a little windy when I got up to 61m. I took some pictures showing different directions from the top and I think the takeoff looks good, pretty much similar to a flat QTH and to some directions even better.

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Some climbing

Posted by sm2wmv on October 17, 2009 Comments Off

I went up to the new 20m beam today to straighten it out a bit (the boom support) and also added some extra clamps to the guy wires. It isn’t needed but somehow it calms me while climbing and then it’s worth it.

Will need to go up again to add a coax to the beam so I can use it a bit in CQWW SSB and also add the horisontal boom support. Here are some pictures taken by the gf

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160m almost finished

Posted by sm2wmv on September 14, 2009 Comments Off

This weekend we managed to get a lot of work done on the 160m vertical. I (SM2WMV) started on Friday evening to build the ginpole which we were gonna use to put up the tower sections. It’s made out of steel which makes it heavy but at the same time I trust it to 100% even though I have welded it myself. It wasn’t that extremely hard either to get it up in the tower, even though SM2LIY complained a bit about his hands hurting 😉

We started on Saturday to raise up the first 6m by hand with the ginpole attached to the top. After that we pulled up the second tower section so at the end of day 1 the tower was 12m high. On Sunday SE2T showed up to help, except cutting down trees he did help putting up the sections for the 160m vertical. After Sunday was over we had pulled up one more section and after feeling that the tower was very wobbly I climbed up on Sunday evening to attach a few steel guy wires to secure it. After that I had run out of fuel, probably since I had to lift the last tower section the last 5cm by hand, since I had attached the ginpole too low and I got to pissed off to hoist it back down and up again so I did some power lifting instead 😉 The attached guy wires did make it easier to climb (mentally) on Monday when we put up the last 6m of tower section. Now next weekend we will put up the pipe in top of the vertical, which will make the vertical pretty much full size. We will probably make it a little shorter so that we can use a coil to ground, making the antenna DC-grounded.

Here are some pictures!