When Gunnar, SG3P was here he recorded some videos with his helmet camera. I had forgotten to share these so here they are,
Inspired by Gold Rush Alaska when they pump out their glory holes 🙂
Tower work by SG3P
Moving clouds
A few videos
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on August 8, 2013
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Military tower progress
Posted by sm2wmv
on August 6, 2013
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We’ve gotten a lot done on the military tower project as well. I’ve welded some iron on to the guy wire ring we got donated by SM2DMU. I want to make sure that no water can leak into the bearing so it freezes up in the winter. Outside I am welding metal bars and on the inside SM2UVU has fixed some plastic that will make sure no water leaks into it from the inside of the ring. Not sure if it’s needed but a lot easier to do it now then needing to do it later.
I also helped Andreas at work to build a stand for his heat pump. The regular ones they sell seem to be for south SM since they don’t handle a lot of snow depth but the one we built does 🙂
My neighbour took back his concrete mixer for a few days to help his sister out but when I got it back I spent half of a day to mix concrete in the 25C heat which was tough by myself, but luckily after half of the time the sun at least got covered up by some clouds. The result came out great and I added the insulation around the concrete and added three ground rods which were connected with 1.5″ copper strips in a ring around the foundation and three 1.5″ strips up to connect into the K-600 tower section which SM2RMG sponsored us with.
Then SM2XJP got to borrow a tractor from a local tire shop and filled the hole back up and also lifted the bottom bearing to the foundation and it looks great. I need to adjust it a bit (2mm or so) to make it perfectly leveled.
I’ve also gotten permission from a couple of guys to run cable over their land to one of my neighbours fields to put the inband vertical. I’ve also gotten permission to errect a tower there later, maybe next year? Got a tower lying around that needs a new owner? 🙂
4el @EU for 20m redesigned
Posted by sm2wmv
on August 6, 2013
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I’ve said for a couple of years that we need to redesign the 4el for 20m since the bandwidth is a bit narrow and it differs too much from the other antennas, so the amps gets problems when switching antennas or powersplitting. Now when the neighbour took back the concrete mixer because he needed to mix some concrete for his sister, and I was wondering what to do SM2XJP gave the suggestion to take down the beam. So we did and put it up the next day with another design (OWA) which I had already made, it just needed to be transfered to the correct tapering. The result is great, now the SWR is not over 1.3:1 on the whole band and is a lot more similar to the big stack.
Big update, 40m yagi fixed, concrete pour etc
Posted by sm2wmv
on July 27, 2013
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Lots have happened lately. I’ve been having help here at the QTH and haven’t really felt like spending that valuable time updating the web page. However, this made it a nightmare since I had pictures from different sources and a lot of them!
First off I spent time at a friends place helping him to build a 2nd floor to his house. After this I went down to SJ2W and spent 1 day before leaving to go to my parents place down in SM3. I spent a few days there and on last Friday SG3P came up since he was going to go up and help me mainly fixing the 40m yagi in the top of the 60m tower. The elements turned on the boom a bit a couple of winters ago and it’s been like that since, very hard work to fix it up at 60m. We went up to SJ2W on Saturday but it was very windy so we did other things meanwhile, such as making the base for the 40m tower.
I have added description on the pictures so I believe that is the easiest way to check what has happened. I got lots of help this week from SG3P (SK3W), SM2XJP, SM2UVU, SM2XLL, SM3JLA and SM2NOG. Great progress! Especially huge thanks to SG3P who spent another week at SJ2W helping out!
