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Fun => The Porch => Topic started by: tpctech on April 19, 2009,
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After taking a break from working on and planning for more blinky lights I crossed over to my other hobby of Ham radio and built a new computer for my IRLP repeater node. About 1 more weekend and new box should be ready to go live on my node here in Niles, MI. a top my 180ft tower!
So I was wondering who else does the Ham radio thing out here. I have had a license since I was about 10...wow that was a long time ago! I currently have a "tech plus" which means I did the code! I am about 30 questions or so from getting my General!.....I just got to study and take the test! So easy to procrastinate!
WB9WYR
tpctech
KEN
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Man that is some tower!
I am K4ROB advanced class, but I have not been active in about 7 years.
RJ
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Ken
180ft Tower = 180ft Mega tree
That's some thick coax/heliax running up that tower.
Never got an amatuer license as morse was required in Oz for what i wanted but i just couldn't learn it so ended up in the good buddy 27mhz band working skip to the US and Europe with a Yaesu 707 and 5 element yagi in the upper half of 27mhz.
The 400w linear helped at times :)
Phil
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As you can guess, I'm also a ham. Not quite as active as I used to be, but I just spent this weekend replacing the Boston 145.23 repeater and other work at the site.
/mike
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Ken
180ft Tower = 180ft Mega tree
That's some thick coax/heliax running up that tower.
Never got an amatuer license as morse was required in Oz for what i wanted but i just couldn't learn it so ended up in the good buddy 27mhz band working skip to the US and Europe with a Yaesu 707 and 5 element yagi in the upper half of 27mhz.
The 400w linear helped at times :)
Phil
That would be a semi truck of lights! I think they would have to crank up another reactor at the local nuke plant.
Now,..... I have thought about a animated star at 180ft
KEN
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Do it! Do the star! =)
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That would be a semi truck of lights! I think they would have to crank up another reactor at the local nuke plant.
Now,..... I have thought about a animated star at 180ft
KEN
And can you imagine how much that truck load of lights would weigh? Not to mention changing burned out strings 160' up on a -10 degree night.
Years ago I changed out beacon lights and installed antennas on a 2,000 foot tower at 4:00am but never in the dead of winter (shiver-r-r-r).
A star would be cool, but it would have to be pretty big to look proper from the ground.
Greg
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I'm KD6JIB. Got my ticket when I was 13. I tried when I was 9 but the code was too frustrating for me at that age. Also by the time I was 13 the exams had been updated and didn't have any more vacuum tube questions (or at least a lot less).
I haven't been very active lately. But I do have a couple of APRS trackers that I built from kits.
One of my all time favorite ham radio events has always been Field Day. I really like the challenge it presents.
Chris
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Hey Ken,
So, awhile back I was stuck in traffic and what do Christmas hobbiests do at such times? Think about Christmas stuff of course... Hmmmm, 180ft megatree... Truck load of lights... Hmmmm...
So I started thinking through what that truckload of lights might look like and I jotted some numbers down on a couple post-it notes which I promptly misplaced. Found the post-its this afternoon and here is what was on it:
180ft tree, assume 1.6:1 height:width ratio, 112.5' base diameter, 56.25' radius.
Base circumference 353.4' , string spacing at base 6" apart, 707 stringers.
mini 100 strings @ 23.5'/string so 8 strings per run base to top.
707 x 8 = 5,656 strings. est 4,248 lbs.
Much more scratchings resulting in est wind load of 5,408 sq ft.
Wandering minds eh?
Standard disclaimers for someone without a calculator. And after all that, traffic still wasn't moving. :(
Greg
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Hey Ken,
So, awhile back I was stuck in traffic and what do Christmas hobbiests do at such times? Think about Christmas stuff of course... Hmmmm, 180ft megatree... Truck load of lights... Hmmmm...
So I started thinking through what that truckload of lights might look like and I jotted some numbers down on a couple post-it notes which I promptly misplaced. Found the post-its this afternoon and here is what was on it:
180ft tree, assume 1.6:1 height:width ratio, 112.5' base diameter, 56.25' radius.
Base circumference 353.4' , string spacing at base 6" apart, 707 stringers.
mini 100 strings @ 23.5'/string so 8 strings per run base to top.
707 x 8 = 5,656 strings. est 4,248 lbs.
Much more scratchings resulting in est wind load of 5,408 sq ft.
Wandering minds eh?
Standard disclaimers for someone without a calculator. And after all that, traffic still wasn't moving. :(
Greg
That's alot of math for 11pm! Thanks for the calculations! I am guessing the tower although it is sturdy it would come down with all that! Maybe I should stick to animated 8 circuit star!
KEN