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	<title>KZ0C - Mike O'Connor &#187; Antenna</title>
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		<title>Mounting the rotor and tri-bander boom antenna</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few weeks and now (before the lift goes away) we&#8217;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&#8217;s Marcie, getting ready to be lift co-pilot. Dang! Put the rotor bracket a little too high! [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a few weeks and now (before the lift goes away) we&#8217;ve got to put the rotor, mast and boom antenna (the antenna is a Cushcraft A3S).</p>
<p>Here are the unassembled bits, collected in my driveway workshop.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00645.JPG" title="Antenna - assembly" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00645.JPG" alt="Antenna - assembly" class="centered" height="450" width="337" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s Marcie, getting ready to be lift co-pilot.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00650.JPG" title="Antenna - Marcie" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00650.JPG" alt="Antenna - Marcie" class="centered" height="450" width="337" /></a></p>
<p>Dang!  Put the rotor bracket a little too high!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00646.JPG" title="Antenna - rotor, bracket" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00646.JPG" alt="Antenna - rotor, bracket" class="centered" height="450" width="337" /></a></p>
<p>This&#8217;ll work better &#8212; rotor and mast are all set.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00651.JPG" title="Antenna - rotor, bracket" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00651.JPG" alt="Antenna - rotor, bracket" class="centered" height="450" width="337" /></a></p>
<p>One of the big pluses of tower work is that you get interesting views.  Here&#8217;s a view of the antenna, all assembled now, lying in the garage workshop ready to be lifted up and attached to the mast.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00648.JPG" title="Antenna - ready for the lift" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00648.JPG" alt="Antenna - ready for the lift" class="centered" height="450" width="337" /></a></p>
<p>And, just because I can, here&#8217;s a view toward the road from the tower.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00649.JPG" title="Antenna - view to the road" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00649.JPG" alt="Antenna - view to the road" class="centered" height="337" width="450" /></a></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t look down!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00652.JPG" title="DSC00652" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00652.JPG" alt="DSC00652" class="centered" height="450" width="337" /></a></p>
<p>Ok.  Time to get down to business.  Here&#8217;s the antenna, perched on the lift-bucket.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00653.JPG" title="DSC00653" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00653.JPG" alt="DSC00653" class="centered" height="337" width="450" /></a></p>
<p>After that, we got pretty busy and I stopped taking pictures for a while.  But a couple hours later we were all set.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00654.JPG" title="DSC00654" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00654.JPG" alt="DSC00654" class="centered" height="325" width="450" /></a></p>
<p>And I took a picture of the whole house the next morning.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kz0c.com/?pp_album=1&amp;pp_image=DSC00656.JPG" title="DSC00656" target="_top"><img src="http://www.kz0c.com/wp-content/photos/DSC00656.JPG" alt="DSC00656" class="centered" height="337" width="450" /></a></p>
<p>There ya go.  Another big milestone.  I&#8217;d sure hate to do all that without the lift.</p>
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