[WIARC] antenna work

[Danny Pease]

Thanks Dave,

At the last meeting, NR9Q said he would be available the last week of
August. We talked Saturday and he told me to pick a  day and ask for help,
based on the weather forecast I looked at Sunday, Thursday looked like the
best morning. Chris will climb the tower but we will need some ground
support. I plan to be there and I hope at least a couple of others can make
it as well.
 
With the downed end of the dipole has been reinstalled, we may have to have
a way to lower both ends of the OCF dipole to attach the wires to the new
balun, we will for sure if the feedpoint is lowered more than a  foot or so.
We also will need whatever hardware it will take to attach the wires to the
new balun, ring lugs (if so, what size?) and I suspect the current balun has
a crimp ferrule to hold the cable to provide strain relief, we will need to
figure out the best way to do that and what we will need to do it. 

If a pulley was not installed on the east end of the dipole when it went
back up, we might want to think about adding one so that we do not need a
bucket truck every time we want to lower that end of the antenna.

We also need to remove whatever it is hanging off the south end of the Red
Cross building, which means a way to get up there.

Thoughts?

Danny


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Soncek [mailto:dss2609 at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 5:16 AM
To: Danny Pease
Subject: Re: [WIARC] antenna work

Danny

The OCF dipole is back in service.  We need someone to climb tower and
install new matching balun and the choke.

Dave

WA9GBC

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Pease
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 3:34 PM
To: wiarc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [WIARC] antenna work

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A recent storm in Quincy took down one end of our wire antenna at the Red
Cross. We have a chance to get our antenna work accomplished this week and
looking at the weather forecast, it looks like Thursday morning may be our
best bet. Anyone that can help this coming Thursday about 9:00 AM, please
let me know. I don't think it will take even 2 hours as long as we have
everything we need on hand.



Thanks



Danny NG9R



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