ham radio club<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\nOn Friday evening I climbed up the tower to remove an old business band VHF antenna.\u00a0 I had never been up this tower before.\u00a0 It is a non-guyed model, starts wider at the bottom with bolt-together pieces and then transitions to solid-rod welded sections for the top.\u00a0 It didn’t look very impressive as I was going up.\u00a0 But once I was up there and strapped in, it was solid and I had no trouble.<\/p>\n
Getting the VHF antenna down was a challenge.\u00a0\u00a0 I thought the thing looked to be about 10 feet long but I was off by a long shot.\u00a0 It was a 21-foot folded dipole array, probably a Decibel Products DB-224; not real heavy, but kind of difficult to manage when you are standing at the top of the tower.<\/p>\n
But I did get it down and get myself down and all done before dark.\u00a0 So I count it as a win.<\/p>\n
Then earlier this morning I went in with my tools and worked on the door to our meeting room.\u00a0 It is a cheap hollow-core 2-hinge door and the bottom hinge was no longer holding; the door was cracked and the hinge screws were falling out. I did a bit of gluing, clamping and used some longer screws.\u00a0 In the end the door seemed to be in better shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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