Although I think it would be cool to see the city from there, I have absolutely no desire to go up. 😊
I shall live vicariously through the adventures of the “tower climbers”… 73/Chris/AC5CM From: BVARC <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chris Boone via BVARC Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2026 10:19 AM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> Cc: Chris Boone <[email protected]>; Chuck Brown <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BVARC] 146 88 repeater video Boy that brings back memories. I was up there in the early 90s to correct the audio problem on the 146.88 Master Executive 2 and found that the receiving antenna on 444.6 repeater was bad... took a couple of bandpass cavities and made a duplexer which worked but the repeater still had some desense due to a preamp that was getting overloaded and I didn't have time to bypass it. Byrom, a retired engineer from 39, was trustee of the repeaters at the time and his son and I spent several hours up there that day.. somewhere I have a picture that I took as I leaned over the edge of the Candelabra pointing straight down. There is one blue pixel that was my Chevy S10 Blazer sitting at the base of the tower! I'm going to have to find that!! Chris WB5ITT Trustee W5APX WRXZ789 GMRS Society of Broadcast Engineers Vice Chairman and Frequency Coordinator, SBE134 SE TX and SW LA On Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 07:06:13 AM CST, Chuck Brown via BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Very very interesting. Chuck W. Brown On Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 9:41 PM Andy Walker via BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This just appeared on my YouTube feed. I'm not sure if this has been passed around before (sorry if it's a DUP), but I thought this was pretty neat. https://youtu.be/e08HO3t6m5M?si=BXh47r2G6n4w2MZN ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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