A wonderful crowd today. All W5RRR stations were full up. We mostly had more operators than available stations (5), so next year we’ll likely increase our ops plan. A large turnout of boy scouts and girl scouts were expertly coordinated by Beth Scully with terrific support from Mike McCann. The kids were super interested and … Read more…
New members have requested/received training/lessons
It’s not even field day, but Murphy’s Law has arrived.
N5FWB pretends to build a new antenna from scratch.
Great turnout from club and CLARC to knockout preparations for next week’s FD.
At 3:30pm it was a nice hot 95 deg day to visit superham Bryon, W5FH at his QTH in Alvin. Bryon had an incredibly great condition TH7DX 20/15/10m triband 7 element yagi for sale, and we luckily snagged it to replace our tired HF yagis ontop W5RRR 80′ tower. Bryon’s shack was easy to spot, since he has two monster 100′ towers with an impressive array of HF /VHF/UHF antennas.
a smooth 1 hour duration climb up the ladder on June 31 5PM.
Weather was perfect and breeze was comfortable.
More photos to follow, but the biggest surprise was to find that the pulley holding up the Windom endwise was jammed.
The cord had slipped off the roller and was jammed in-between the roller and the inside shell. Previously, we thought the pulley was intentionally disabled and tied down permanently.
A couple death defying yanks
are photos of the current Balun on our Carolina Windom antenna. This Balun hangs vertically in the air, and we discovered
, AB5SS, has already keenly spotted some significant items after examine the recent UAS drone photography.
“… the brackets are clamped to the vertical legs instead of resting on the horizontal braces. See pic below of how they “should” be installed. As you might guess, the problem with the way they are installed is they can crimp the legs (although they are thick wall steel tubing), but worse
thanks to Mike, N8MTV and the Ellington and Photo team:
KJ4QJW, N9RCS, KG5HOK, W5OC spent Saturday May 27, from 9AM-4PM finishing work making coax and control line connections and the guying down of the crank up tower. Using the in-place coax and rotor control wiring which runs from the tower base to inside the shack, Stu, KJ4QJW, terminated the connections at both end and discovered the “missing” connection lines behind the W5RRR service panel.
