[Today’s run: track workout in Starkville, 3+ miles]
Station monitor: I have been using it to gather temperature and forward/reflected power data. Eventually I want to have it send me alerts if something goes wacky. I have the FM chip thing working on my bench but have not moved forward with it as a silence detector yet.
Antenna and Feed line: I removed about half of the hardline and reconfigured the entry to the new transmitter shack. That helped my SWR quite a bit and subsequently the heating issue is relieved. But I still want to replace it all up to the antenna. Maybe we can work on that this weekend. I need a nice day to climb the tower.
Tower takedown: I have the opportunity to take down a 100′ tower up north of here. I don’t know when I will be able to do it. But I could put 3-4 10′ sections on the stack we have now to get up to 100′ for the FM station. I need to talk to a guy about borrowing a gin-pole (or I could use the jury rigged thing I have here).
AVNA: I’m gathering the parts to build the Bob Larkin AVNA (audio frequency vector network analyzer) which was featured in the May/June 2018 QEX magazine.
Job searching: My work is going well, but there is the looming end still estimated to be about 2-3 years out. I’ve been looking at job boards and sending in the odd resume. Nothing happening yet. I am trying to get up to speed with some of the recent technologies, at least enough to be able to converse about them.
Transmitter shack: I need to put the 2nd coat of paint on 2 more walls and the door then I’ll call it good.
Weather station: It has been running OK. I just cleaned it up with de-oxit spray and got it started up again. I guess it was just dirty (?) My fears of some fundamental problem seem to have been unfounded. I need to get over to Starkville and do the same to the station over there.