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Well, age is the name of the game.
However, I do remember climbing around in the trees at 10 o'clock at night
restringing wire antennas that were brought down by a May snowstorm that
dropped 14 inches of wet snow on us 18 years ago. I was nuts in those days!
My sister was having kittens to think that I was 30 feet up in a tree at
that hour of the night. But I got the antennas back up and got the station
back on the air!
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 02:49 PM 10/17/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>Lou, Where is your sense of adventure?
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>I recall my best antenna work done at night or in inclement weather. =20
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>I recall in college while our club was trying to get our new th6dxx in
>the air for the November sweepstakes that we were working in 20 mph
>winds with snow and rain mixed during final assembly. We had to turn
>the beam halfway to raise the second half and since we had not yet
>finished the control box for the prop pitch rotator ended up using a 12
>volt car battery to turn the antenna. We made the cw SS but had the
>rotator replaced with the ham m by the SSB portion. You know how the
>Ees and the Physics students had problems with team work, grin. =20
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> KD7JN Alas age compels me to agree with you and save the antenna work
>for better days now. =20
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Louis Kim Kline
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