[BC] Two weeks off air ...

[Alex Hartman]

A while back i worked for a station that had a giant self support
tower that needed work and paint. The owner refused to turn off for
them, so my answer was to use the backup rig into a telephone pole
with a small tower section strapped to the top, and about 10 radials.
(and a small doghouse for a makeshift ATU)

Pumped 1200w in, got about 400w out. It works in a pinch for things
like this. Problem is, the owner of the station left it there and
still tries to use it as a backup to this day. I'm just waiting for
one of these days where the hose clamp and nails holding the top of
the tower on breaks and it comes through the roof of someone's house.
Total height is somewhere around 40ft.

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Alex Hartman

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Kevin Raper <kj4hyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Lotus Engineering wrote:
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>>It's hard to believe that they can't throw something up to give them some kind of signal during the construction.  Maybe that's just the Ham in me talking,
>
> I know what you mean. I would put up a Long Wire and load a Tube Transmitter into it.
>
> 73,
> Kevin Raper
> KJ4HYD
> CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ
>