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	<title>KZ0C - Mike O'Connor</title>
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		<title>Pictures of the shack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This project is typical for me.  I&#8217;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.  &#8216;Seems like as soon as I tie everything down, something breaks and I just have to rip it all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/16</link>
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		<title>Remote control block diagram</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phase One of the Internet remote-controlled transceiver is done!  Woohoo!   Here&#8217;s a thumbnail of a block diagram.  Click on it to see the real deal.

Here&#8217;s the recipe;
I used PC Anywhere to get to my farm PC, but that&#8217;s only because of stupidly having built the PC with XP Home Edition rather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/11</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;other&#8221; antenna &#8212; a multi-band long-wire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The boom was the hard one to put up &#8212; 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&#8217;s really hard to take a picture of a skinny wire against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/12</link>
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		<title>Mounting the rotor and tri-bander boom antenna</title>
		<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!

This&#8217;ll work better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/10</link>
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		<title>Putting up the tower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s mid-summer and I&#8217;ve decided to break the tower on the hill project into smaller chunks so&#8217;s to be able to get it done.  So I&#8217;m putting a tower up next to the house.  The good news is that I can use the tower as the base-tower when I finally go up on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/9</link>
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		<title>TenTec Omni VII &#8212; a great idea, but not too secure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally I&#8217;ve been pulling the ham-radio posts out of the Haven2.com blog and moving them over here.  But this post has a whole bunch of comments so I&#8217;m going to leave it over there and just provide you a&#8230;
link to the post
here instead.  It&#8217;s a pretty long rant (complete with pictures and diagrams) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/7</link>
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		<title>My vanity call sign &#8211; KZ0C</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another big milestone today in the Ham Radio saga. The FCC granted my request for a vanity call sign and assigned KZ0C to me. KZ&#8230; because it was available. 0C &#8230; because i can transmogrify that into OC, which in turn is my last-name initials. A darn nifty call &#8212; 4 letters, easy for me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/5</link>
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		<title>The goal &#8211; a tower on the hill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an ongoing post that I&#8217;m going to use as a scratchpad to document the &#8220;put a ham station on top of the ridge&#8221; project.
Updated - maps (aerial, topo, elevation)
Here&#8217;s a picture of &#8220;the problem&#8221;

The farm is a wonderful place, and the house is in a nifty location.  South-facing so it gets lots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/4</link>
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		<title>It begins with the license&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kz0c.com/index.php/archives/3</link>
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