--- In [email protected], Vincent Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Thats tough when they arent willing to go beyond NO
Yes.. Hard to deal with it when they won't even discuss.
So for now, we keep building up the new gear, and will probably install
it in our existing site which is rather low, and has enough roof
leakage that we built a "rain hat" for the cabinet, and conformal
coated the boards.
I hate to put all this nice gear in there, but that looks like what it
will have to be. We are replacing some OLD maggiore transmitter and
receiver boards and a "Daiwa" mobile amplifier (Yes the kind that has a
linear/FM switch..) with a rack full of Daniels MT-2 gear and RC-210
controller. I added a Tek rack mount scope to the kit recently. We are
also adding a 440 pair, and a real-by-god-part-97-legal control link.
Around here the thought seems to be that actual control links are
optional, or that controlling the machine through the VHF pair is "good
enough". :-P
This machine was a "flying dutchman" for a lot of years. When we took
over, it was so deaf that you couldn't hit it from a 30W mobile 2 miles
away. The "9913 type" feedline was badly corroded, and one section
about 2" long and at the bottom of the drip loop had been stripped of
shield on one side. We later found out that the antenna, a comet GP-3
three section fiberglass job, had been assembled years ago, without the
use of the screws that normally connect the three internal elements
together. No battery backup, a really simpleminded controller.. What
you'd call a "barely there" machine.
We put in a new controller immediately, and re-wired/tuned the existing
boards, replaced the feedline with FSJ1-50 (only 30' long), and
repaired the antenna, but we were hoping to just leave that system in
place and build up the new one at a new site, then "flip the switch"
one afternoon.
One problem is we are close spaced with another VHF machine, so the
coordinators don't want us moving to one site that IS open to us, that
would be about 5 miles closer. I offered to set up the new four bay
dipole to notch in that direction, but they didn't like that idea.
Would be nice, a 270' tower and we can get top position.
So for a while longer, we'll be in the leaky broom closet, feeding a
fiberglass stick through a combiner, sitting under our rain hat.
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