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“free standing 120 foot Pirod, steel, free standing”
From Tower construction 2014. Posted by Cal Merritt on 12/22/2015 (81 items)
- every journey starts with the first shovel full of dirt
- 12 x 12 x 4 foot more or less
- the clay digs well
- mike loves to play in the mud
- there was one death during the project
- rebar cage
- this was total commercial overkill on the base
- concrete
- one two truck pour
- mike doing the finish work
- setting up for the base section
- crane
- another view of the boom truck
- the X-7 beam ready to install
- mike going to work
- working at the top
- setting up the 2 meter beam on the antenna test stand
- checking out the 6 meter beam
- this is what a X-7 beam looks like when you take it out of the box
- the 145.29 repeater RX and TX antennas
- another view of the assembled X-7
- hauling up steel
- the base
- this is the front row seating
- nice view of the boom truck
- lowering the all important base section in place
- i did some of the moving of steel with the Boomer 8N tractor
- more steel going up
- steel work
- custom cut and designed top plate and rotor plate
- N0XFU clowning around
- travis could not control his excitement
- the capstone
- mike gets a lot of exercise
- close up on the installed top plate
- looking down from the top working position
- the Cox property to the west, Wayne’s World
- a view of Brock farms
- mike, the tower guy
- dweeb
- 6 meter beam going up
- top repeater receiver antenna on a side mount i made out of angle iron
- the "bonus" tower, more pix on this later
- looking up from the base
- Brock’s new grain elevator which is exactly the same hight
- looking down on the X-7 which went up later, took a bigger boom truck
- AB9D
- Sue and Sadie going for a walk out by the garden.
- close up of the side arm mounts
- the repeater side arms i made hold the RX and TX antennas for the 145.29
- longer view
- surge supressors in a sealed metal box
- all LMR400 out the bottom
- to the trench
- rather than fill this in i put a 2 x 4 on the open trench in case i later wanted to a…
- up and into the militia command and comm center
- 120 feet to the rotor plate
- tower project this time is to replace some poor quality rope with the best stuff
- going up, N0XFU
- one thing to remember is to make one run up and down for a wire antenna is 250 feet o…
- the stuff unrolled well
- don’t look down
- i got a great antenna ideal for this rope
- getting it done
- i was hoping for one trip up but some minor problems made it 1 and 2/3’s trips up
- the main antenna systems
- ground wire bonding to the tower legs, there are three of these
- that is an 8′ copper plated ground rod
- the transient absorber enclosure inside the steel work
- the interior of the metal box
- entry gaskets
- a longer view
- all cables are buried into the militia compound command and communications center
- the long view
- at the top of the 145.29 transmit antenna
- at the base of the 145.29 receiver antenna
- the final push
- hooking up
- repairs were later successful
- it is all downhill from here
- never ever EVER stand directly under a tower and never EVER look up if you are standi…
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