Archive for the 'General' Category

17 Nov

Pictures of the shack

This project is typical for me. I’m really sloppy and really fast at getting stuff running, and months later I come back around and tidy things up. Orderly engineering is not my forte. ‘Seems like as soon as I tie everything down, something breaks and I just have to rip it all […]

28 Sep

The “other” antenna — a multi-band long-wire

The boom was the hard one to put up — tower, rotor, etc. But once it was up, putting up the long-wire was a snap. One end is in a tree behind the garage, the other is tied to the tower.

Boy, it’s really hard to take a picture of a skinny wire against […]

18 Mar

The goal - a tower on the hill

This is an ongoing post that I’m going to use as a scratchpad to document the “put a ham station on top of the ridge” project.
Updated - maps (aerial, topo, elevation)
Here’s a picture of “the problem”

The farm is a wonderful place, and the house is in a nifty location. South-facing so it gets lots […]

17 Mar

It begins with the license…

I’ve always wanted to be in the amateur radio type guy, but never had the gumption to pass the Morse-code part of the deal. But the code-requirement went away a couple weeks ago. I was planning to take the test the day after that, but I got skunked by the huge snow storm […]