[Harc] The HEX party at Jaye's qth

[tim stack]

Thank you for the learning experience. Great to meet and re meet y'all

Hear you down the line

73

Tim

kn6ono

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022, 1:04 PM MJ Inabnit via Harc <harc at humboldt-arc.org>
wrote:

>
> After a rotator failure (boo RCA!),  Carl & friend brought down my hex
> beam few weeks ago.  I spent time carefully sanding all the (very
> dangerous) fiberglass spreader poles.  18 of them.  Then primed and
> painted them with high gloss paint.  New rotator and new 'push-up' mast.
>
> Thursday afternoon, the party began.  Tim kn6ono first started the
> reassembly of the antenna.  Soon the whole crew showed up.  Carl km6liq
> was the foreman who did the mast adapter work that connects the antenna
> base to the rotator (good work Carl!).  Randy kn6nsk, Scott ke6wli, Kai
> n6zzo (and Jr along for the adventure) all lent hands moving the beam
> and getting everything into place as will as manning the three guy lines.
>
> We stopped to enjoy much needed pizza/beer/soda/water and SHADE.  Who
> would have guessed the day would be so sunny & hot!
>
> Finally, the old mast was removed, new mast readied and final
> connections made.  Kai used his micro vna to sweep the bands while
> antenna was only 8' up, all good!  Then the final raising and
> orientation before all the clamps and guys were tightened down.
>
> Some of the folks stuck around to see a short demonstration of the whole
> system and my very messy radio shack :)
>
> Only 3 slices of pizza left and 4 beers .. We did good!
>
> Lastly, many of my amazing friends had never met before.  I heard lots
> of "so NOW I have a face to the voice" comments!
>
> We took more time than was needed.  Some of the spreaders had been
> reversed, but discovered before it went onto the mast.  With this crew,
> it was easy to move things up/down without anyone struggling to handle
> the ungainly beam.
>
> Thanks for all your help guys.  Was a joy to share some fun and enjoy a
> really cool learning experience.
>
> 73
>
> Jaye ke6sls
>
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