[SADXA] Antenna footing

[Tom Kramer]

Wes,

   Good timing or you.  I plan antenna work tomorrow and maybe Tuesday.  My 
primary 6m yagi has high SWR so will crank it down.  Thankfully it is on a 
hazer.

I wish these fronts would roll through occasionally during the summer.

So now I have to fight you as well on 80/160??  Hopefully those bands will 
produce some good DX in the next few years.  Good luck.

73 Tom NQ7R

-----Original Message----- 
From: Wes Stewart
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 12:40 PM
To: SADXA
Subject: [SADXA] Antenna footing

I've been wanting to put up a vertical for 80 and 160 for months (almost a 
year
really).  I finally bought a tilt over fixture and some aluminum tubing, to 
add
to what I had, from DXEngineering.
(https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-va-pivot-3) This requires a 7 foot
long, 3" steel mast cast in concrete.  I've had the hole dug and lined with 
an
18" Sonotube 4 feet deep for some time but hadn't found time or ambition to 
mix
and place the concrete.  I've spent the last few weeks rescuing mice and 
lizards
from the bottom of the hole.  As I procrastinated, the WX got hotter. When I
started assembling the fixture, I found a gouge in one SS plate. 
DXEngineering
said they wanted to replace it.  After a big mix up I finally got the
replacement part a week later than promised. The WX got hotter.  Two days 
ago it
hit 100 degrees.

I finally decided that today was the day, thirteen 60 pound sacks of 
Quikrete
were on hand but a last minute calculation said I might need more, so a 
quick
trip to Home Depot was in order.  The WX was unusually cool when I started 
at 8
AM, When I finished at noon today the temp was...wait for it... 73!

How about that?

Wes  N7WS

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