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Tower 1
Tower 1: Main tower supporting 50MHz 6M2WLC yagi, 14MHz 5 element yagi and 75m full wave loop.
Please note that all times are in UTC. As such comments relate to the next morning/day AEST unless otherwise stated.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Finally after a week of rain and wind, this morning I had the opportunity to raise Tower #2 back to full height and now the 10m yagi is finally installed in it's proper place at ~20m AGL.


As can be seen, the 40m dipole is still dangling from the tower and will be fixed in the next 24 hours!

But as with tower work it wasn't without incident! With the second section 2/3 raised, the winch cable snapped. Luckily I had been winching in small increments and then climbing to place a 'lock' (block of hard wood) in the tower and cable tying the hardline to the tower sections. This meant that the free fall was only about 100mm. A quick trip to the local trailer repair shop and new winch cable was purchased and installed on the tower for the final lift into it's fully extended height.

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