[SixClub] Band open

[Roger (K8RI) on Six]

And my antenna is *stuck", well actually it's the thrust bearing(s) that are 
stuck.  I have a lot mounted above the top of the tower. Unfortunately with 
all the high winds (and lightning strikes) the top thrust bearing (TB-3) is 
pretty much shot. It had worn to the point where the top race was setting on 
the mounting bolts and washers for the bearing. This was causing it to bind 
to the point where a large rotator could not turn it.

A couple weeks ago I discovered the cause while up the tower.  I loosened 
the centering bolts to allow the mast to rotate inside the bearings and all 
was well until today. Now it's bound up again and a rotator with many 
thousands of inch pounds of torque can't move it.

I've you've seen the weather maps EN73 is just a bit east of the center of a 
low that seems to be going nowhere and it is *raining* out there with the 
tmps just barely into the 50's.  So It looks like it may be a while before I 
get back up there to fix it.

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


> it was open to FN03 this morning i worked a VA3DX
> so keep listening
>
> KC2FTN in N.Y. wrote:
>
>> SOMEDAY it'll open up here in Northern New York (FN24).
>>
>>             Mike KC2FTN
>>
>>
>>
>>  Catch the wave!
>> www.hamwave.com
>>
>> Grid: FN24
>> Echolink RF Node: 130382
>> Six-Club #1994
>> NCI #3853
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Dennis Kaylor <k4oxg at tampabay.rr.com>
>>> Reply-To: World Wide Six Meter Club <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
>>> To: World Wide Six Meter Club 
>>> <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>,6meter at yahoogroups.com
>>> Subject: [SixClub] Band open
>>> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:38:46 -0400
>>>
>>> hello all
>>> the band is open from  EL98 to EN72
>>> thats central florida to mid west Michigan for those of you who still 
>>> dont have a grid map...grin
>>>
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