Hi John;
What vertical are you putting up and how high is this pipe?
That baby will cut into your on air time.
Richard
 

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From: John Miller <[log in to unmask]>
To:  [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, Mar 22, 2012 12:41:22 PM
Subject: so close

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> I'm so close to back on HF. the pipe to mount the antenna on is in the =
> ground, we just didn't want to get too in to the assembly of the antenna =
> right now because we're literally on "any second now" baby watch and it =
> would not be good if we got part way in to it and I had to leave but we =
> got 900 MHz up so I can run the base station now and got the pipe in the =
> ground for the HF vertical. Once the baby's here I'll finish that up, =
> and be on HF again. It's just too much work to get part way done and me =
> leave my crew so we opted to just wait. I've sure missed being on the =
> air, the antennas on the railing worked well when the bands were open =
> but left a lot to be desired if the bands weren't great. I'm having fun =
> again finally after being stuck pretty much on vhf since the end of =
> August.