[RVRC] RVRC Saturday 6/22 'Field' Day - Project Report

[cwsaums at aol.com]

Members of RVRC

I am pleased to report that the new antennas are fully assembled and ready to go up the tower.  

Thanks to Jim (KC2ZXP) and Anna (KD2DUK) and Paul (KC2VRJ) Nannery and also to Bruce Nadler (KC2YSF) for the great effort.  It took a lot of hands, lots of measuring and lots of adjusting but the final results look very promising.  

These antennas are very high quality and hopefully we will have very good results once they are up in the air.  

Total assembly time for the two antennas was about 4 hours.  

The heavy duty aluminum masts worked out great.  Thanks to Rich Pascale - W2PQ for helping with the mast procurement.  

Kenny Lund (KC2OOP) stopped by to give us some support and to do some planning with Paul and Jim and Bruce for the future shed work.  Susan Lund also helped with some tools and lots of encouragement throughout the day

After the antennas were secured in the garage and the shed, we helped Susan with some projects in the house before heading back down the hill.  

Overall it was a successful day and we are one step closer to getting the repeaters back to full strength.

Craig Saums AC2FE
Technical Committee Chairman

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