KZ0C – Mike O’Connor

It’s been a few weeks and now (before the lift goes away) we’ve got to put the rotor, mast and boom antenna (the antenna is a Cushcraft A3S).

Here are the unassembled bits, collected in my driveway workshop.

Here’s Marcie, getting ready to be lift co-pilot.

Dang! Put the rotor bracket a little too high!

This’ll work better — rotor and mast are all set.

One of the big pluses of tower work is that you get interesting views. Here’s a view of the antenna, all assembled now, lying in the garage workshop ready to be lifted up and attached to the mast.

And, just because I can, here’s a view toward the road from the tower.

Don’t look down!

Ok. Time to get down to business. Here’s the antenna, perched on the lift-bucket.

After that, we got pretty busy and I stopped taking pictures for a while. But a couple hours later we were all set.

And I took a picture of the whole house the next morning.

There ya go. Another big milestone. I’d sure hate to do all that without the lift.