Finally some great weather to do tower work!

With a very sunny day, and not too much else planned, today was the perfect day to get stuck into the maintenance work on tower #3 required before I install the new 144, 432 and 1296MHz antennas.

With the tower cranked over I could remove the 5 element 15m mono yagi. The Patrol with a full roof rack makes the perfect work platform (probably now OHS compliant but).

With the yagi off, the tower was lowered completely., removed from the supporting mast and the hinge, rotator platform and thrust bearing bracket removed.

The brackets were wire brushed and painted with rust converter. These will be painted with a Killrust matt enamel in the coming days.

Withe the 15m yagi off the tower I thought about trying 15m mobile before disassembling the antenna (until the tower is ready to go back up)!!!