[SixClub] Help! World Wide Six Meter Club

Sun Nov 12 17:01:58 EST 2006

Well, I'll try again.  I posted this over two hours ago and nothing has 
turned up yet.  Probably stuck at my ISP.

> Roger,
>
> what you need is PRACTICE, you can come climb my tower to help you stay in 
> shape, you can even put up my other tower, then you wont have that problem 
> next time you are ready to climb yours !!!!

Joey, you are all heart<:-)) I really appreciate the thoughtful offer, but
my wife has put her foot down and said at my age I'm going to be confining
my tower climbing to my own. I used to do a lot of climbing around here, but
now I'm reaching "that point" it's really difficult to find some one...any
one... to help out up there.  Which reminds me. I need to find a loos
tension gage and recheck the guy tension. Any one know a good source?

Tis true I do need the practice and more exercise and I do try.
Unfortunately the arthritis sometimes interferrs. What I really need is to
lose 20# or a little more.  When I built the tower 5 or 6 years ago I
weighed 150 and I could (and did) stay up there all day. Now, when you
consider the full body harness, fall arrest gear, tag lines, and pole strap
weight 17# and I weigh well over 170 it's the same as if I would have been
carrying a 40 to 50# back pack every time I went up the tower 6 years ago.
Without the warm jacket, but with steel toed work boots and leather gloves I
tip the scales at roughtly 202# when I go up the tower.  205 to 210 when
dressed for cold weather.

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

> 
> LOL,   Joey
> Richard JRichard J. Fiero II W5TFW QSL Manager USS KIDD DD-661 My web page 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger (K8RI) on Six" <50MHz at rogerhalstead.com>
> To: "World Wide Six Meter Club" <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [SixClub] Help! World Wide Six Meter Club
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>
>>
>> You guys had better hurry up and get ready for weak signals as I'm almost 
>> ready to put the 7L 6-meter beam back in operation at 115 feet.  You 
>> should thank me for all the band openings this summer cuz when that 
>> antenna goes back up the band will be going dead.<sigh>  To insure 
>> propagation really goes down hill I'm installing LMR 600 all the way. 
>> However I do need to climb that tower more.  I hadn't climbed in a month 
>> and after an hour up there the other eveing  it's taken two days for my 
>> calves and quads to recover. <:-))
>>
>> However if any one knows where I can get a good 6-meter legal limit amp, 
>> let me know and not a pair of 3-500s as they take too much drive. For 
>> that I could convert my old 2K4, but I'd rather do it was something a bit 
>> more compact.  I tried for a 6n2 Thunderbolt on e-bay but some one wanted 
>> it worse than I did. Maybe I should have kicked the final bid up a bit. 
>> <sigh>
>>
>> Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
>> N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
>> www.rogerhalstead.com (Use return address from home page)
>>
>>
>>>  it seems to me the amount of submissions to the reflector have slowed 
>>> quite a bit, I suppose thats due mostly to the lack of 6 meter band 
>>> openings.  this is a really good spot for 6 meter stuff,
>>> it would be a shame to lose it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Joey
>>> Richard JRichard J. Fiero II W5TFW QSL Manager USS KIDD DD-661 My web 
>>> page My PGP fingerprint: BCBD C687 446B 5D0E CCE2 8093 DB11 85DD D374 
>>> C73F My PGP public key
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: <mahunt at adelphia.net>
>>> To: <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 9:52 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [SixClub] Help! World Wide Six Meter Club
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am not a member of the group because I am to lazy to join I guess. But 
>>>>I have found this e-mail reflector a life saver and a money saver with 
>>>>all the advice I am able to get.  I guess now would be a great time to 
>>>>join and provide a few dollars to the cause.  Anyways I would love to 
>>>>help, and I do have some time to do so. I can help out with the website 
>>>>(I have soom experience) maybe even play a month of the server fees. 
>>>>Well thats my 2 cents that I can add. Please le me know if I can help
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