[SixClub] Finally did it.

[Roger (K8RI) on Six]

Listening to all these tales about DX and coast to coast while my system is 
stuck finally got to me.  I went out to the tower this evening, disconnected 
and pulled all the coax back out.  Of course a construction crew coming in 
tomorrow to dig up the basement had nothing to do with that. I just wanted 
to make you guys feel bad<:-))

I put out a call for any hams to come over and help thread the coax through 
some feed throughts in the conduit box at the bottom of the tower and not a 
peep.  OTOH that is a bit on the short side for notice.  However I managed 
to catch a neighbor out in his back yard and borrowed him for about 5 
minutes.

I told him he'd probably need to wash his hands afterwards, but he wouldn't 
need any soap.  I used about a half a large bottle of dishwashing detergent 
when I pulled them in.  They are still pretty slippery. <:-)) Hopefully I'll 
get the new Hoffman box in place after they dig out the walls.

This should let me do the grounding and bypassing on the outside where the 
cables come into the house.  I didn't realize I had 14 cables in that 3" 
conduit though. Oops, make that 16 cables. Tis no wonder the last couple 
took a bit more work to pull in.

Ya'all have fun working DX this week while I'm pulling cables, swapping out 
the rotator, removing antennas, repairing antennas, and adding antennas. 
MAYBE I will finally get the boom truss back on that 7L 6-meter yagi.

I'm afraid to look inside that PST-61. Originally it was the thrust bearings 
hanging up, but I think they hung one too many times and the rotator had 
enough torque to hurt itself. I'll know when I open it up.  I was going to 
get the rotator out and lower the antennas tomorrow and now I see they have 
the state painted in red on the weather map.

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com