Now my vacation is over and I am back in Luleå at the work QTH. We managed to get some stuff done though. Three sides of the house is not very far from done, a couple of more weekends and then that should be fine. I also started to do work on the base for the 40m military tower project. I basically just cut the H-beam in half and planned how to construct it plus took lots of measurements. I took the H-beam and some other parts with me up to Luleå where I have tools to drill the big holes.

I am in need of a 300mm long 60mm thick round bar, if anybody has got one lying around. Thicker is fine too since I still need to machine it.

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SM2IUF thought I should add a page on the web where I list stuff that we need at the station. There is probably plenty of stuff not listed that is also needed, so if you have some stuff lying around that you don’t need and feel can be useful for us, please ask because we really appreciate all contributions.

Here is the donation page

Since the weekend was so much work for me and SM2XJP, I decided to take it easy on Monday. So I started building a little house at the new cable entrance at the barn which I think turned out really good. I will need to buy some more material for grounding and I need to make some parts so I can attach it nice to the coaxes. I also added gas discharge tubes (GDT) to the control wires and got us QRV on three bands, since SM2LIY came here and not having the possibility to be QRV would be quite tough on him 😉

SM2LIY did burn the old paneling from the house while I worked on the cable entrance.

Now when the grounding is improved I am comfortable to leave all antenna switches etc connected during thunderstorms. However, I can disconnect all the coaxial cables leading to the house, so that only the control cables is what is connecting the barn to the house, and all those are very well protected with both GDTs and Metal Oxide Varistors (MOVs).

SE2T also arrived to day and helped us at the QTH, mainly painting.

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