After a lot of work we finally erected the last 24m of the60m tower this Monday. The guys who helped were SM2XJP, SM2LIY, SM2NOG, SM2WMV and Anna who did take the pictures. It all went fairly smoothly and the lift took about 1.5 hour. Here are the pictures from the lift and comments to them.
SM3JLA showed up on Friday afternoon and helped me to put up the 2nd beam for the small low 10m stack. The antennas are sitting about 15/9.5m up on the rotatable tower. We also added a rotator and converted the 2nd antenna to hairpin as well which we got a nice resonance at 28.350 MHz.
Some other various pictures taken as well during this evening with the fog covering the land.
After cutting down all the trees at the station I needed to get rid of them somehow. SM2XJP saw my neighbour outside so he asked him and he said yes, went to my place, took a bit of coffee and we talked for a long while. After that he promised to gather all the wood and he got all the pine tree while I got all the birch. He also said that it was no problem to ask him in the future either and we also have permission to add beverage antennas in his forrest.
On Friday the 31st of July the first 36m of the tower went up. The people who did attend (which I am grateful for) were SM2NOG, SM2XLL, SM2XJP, SE2T, SM2LIY, SA2AWO, SA2YLM, SA2AXJ, SM2WMV and the crane driver Per. It went pretty smoothly and took around 2-3 hours to complete. The crane did just lift 32m which was a bit tricky but we managed to get the top part up anyway but it took a bit longer time. The next 24m of the tower has also been laid out and after it has been put together and guy wires added its time for the next lift, to get the tower to its full 61.5m height.
The reason why we do this in two lift is to get the cost down. The big crane cost probably 3-4 times as much as this one.
Here are the pictures with picture descriptions
SM3JLA joined me for a weekend and helped me lay out the tower pieces and helped to screw them together. SM2NOG also showed up and drilled the holes in the tower base. The weekend after SM2LIY showed up with some chemical concrete fixture which SM2NOG had gotten for us which we used to get the bolts stuck in the concrete base. After that I noticed that somehow the base wasn’t perfectly leveled so I had to add a little concrete to level it out.
Here are some pictures of the stuff that happened…
