[ADXA] Today

[Stan Stockton]

The worse the WX is the better the antenna works.  At least that is what my
dad told me 55 years ago.

Randy - If you are really building amplifiers we should talk.  I have stuff.

Stan

On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 10:34 PM <rcurt at centurytel.net> wrote:

> Stan, I wouldn't have been wanting to be on a tower today here. Windy and
> cool, then came a big rain this afternoon. I sure need to get up my tower
> and do some very much need stuff. Glad you have a signal back on the air.
>
>
> Randy/W5ZJ
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 8:05 PM, Stan Stockton via ADXA <
> adxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> To: adxa
> Today was too cold and windy to play golf (or waste oxygen as Joel would
> say). When I came back from ZF, only my shunt fed tower for 160 was
> working.  No tribander, no 40m dipole, no rotator.  I didn’t have anything
> for 80.   Probably none of it worked when I left in October.  I wanted to
> be able to get on a little and at least listen to the ZF station where
> W1DED is renting it for the week.  He is the guy who interviews contesters
> - Q5 Ham Radio.
>
> Anyway I went up to see if I could figure anything out.  I didn’t see
> anything on the tribander and figured it must be a connection in my choke.
> Took it down , found the problem, fixed it and put it back up.  Now I have
> an antenna that works on 20/15/10, fixed NE.   The rotator needs to be
> replaced with a Yaesu one I have here and at the same time lower the mast
> and hopefully just have to do the same thing on the rotatable dipole.  You
> can’t reach it from the top of the tower.
>
> If you are waiting for that new band counter to pop up, give ZF2KT a few
> contacts over the weekend.
>
> 73..Stan, K5GO
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