After we got the tower up on Saturday I felt like I was totally drained of all energy. But after some sleep and food I managed to get motivated again and started building antennas. I have been using some of the aluminium that we took down in Moskojärvi last autumn for booms and also parts of the elements. On the 40m yagis I change all tubing smaller than 50mm and the 5el for 20m will be totally new except some of the boom. The 30m 3el yagi will get the elements and boom from the Moskojärvi aluminium as well, we will see how many years left it has got. It looks in great shape but it’s aluminium so you never know…

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I’ve done some work on the military tower getting the guy wire bearing water proofed with some material that SM2UVU brought. I have also gotten help from SM2XJP who borrowed a tractor so that we could move the tower sections and assemble them. It all went very smoothly and hopefully next weekend we might get it up.

Unfortunately I need to start working now again, so I won’t be able to spend as much time here.

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Today I spent most of the day getting hardware done for the military tower. I need this parts to finish up the bottom bearing so I can have it installed when the foundation is done. I used the lathe to remove some steel from the axle so its in three steps, 30mm, 28mm and 20mm. I think the pictures explain how I’ve thought out to do it. After it was all welded up it seem to be fairly straight when testing it in the lathe.

To be continued…

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Sorry, been lazy with updates that last week. Been so busy at work so I have not been able to do much else except some small stuff.

I drilled new holes in the guy wire ring we got from SM2DMU, now it fits the military tower.

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