[Saturday: Rose Garden 6.8 miles; Monday: Watson Rd: 3.4 miles]<\/p>\n
I’ve been really busy with a variety of things, but haven’t been blogging like I should.\u00a0 Sorry about that.\u00a0 My goal is to make a post every day I go on a run.\u00a0 Usually I run three days per week.<\/p>\n
This is Thanksgiving week.\u00a0 I have Thursday and Friday off.\u00a0 Thursday we are going down toward Newton County, MS to have Thanksgiving dinner with our son.\u00a0 That will be a treat!<\/p>\n
On Friday I hope to wrap up a project that has been on the checklist for about 6 months.\u00a0 Last spring a fellow came to our ham club meeting and asked if anyone could help take down a tower.\u00a0 A family of a ham up near Aberdeen still have his tower up in their yard and they want it down.\u00a0 The wife and I drove up there in May? June? to look it over.\u00a0\u00a0 It is so hot in the summer tower climbing is just not much fun.\u00a0 I sweat just walking around, climbing straight up is not an enjoyable activity.\u00a0 (But sometimes there are cool breezes at the top.)<\/p>\n
So I have asked a couple of guys to be my ground crew and we think Friday is the day.<\/p>\n
There is a small HF beam antenna and a rotator etc. at the top. That stuff needs to be disassembled and lowered to the ground.\u00a0 Then we will take it down section by section and lower each section to the ground.\u00a0 The tower is supposed to be 80 ft. tall, so that is 8 sections.<\/p>\n
Before Friday I need to acquire some rope we can use for temporary guy lines.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the past I’ve been OK with two sections\u00a0 unguyed above the highest guy attachment point.\u00a0 I need to see if I took pictures when we were there last spring.\u00a0 If he guyed it every three sections, I’ll be OK.<\/p>\n
The reward for this is: 1) helping out some people and 2) taking away all of the tower parts.\u00a0 I could use a few more sections of tower to extend my FM station antenna to full licensed height.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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