On 3/16/2012 3:31 PM, chris casey wrote:
> A while back I had some emails about trying to get the university club
> station tower down. It is finally coming down with the help of a crane
> coming to do some other work nearby. Getting it back up is another
> issue, but this is a way to move forward.
>
> While its down we need to diagnose both the rotor and the beam. The
> beam is a th-6 and isn't resonant anywhere it should be, bad enough
> the tuner in the rig can't handle it. The rotor is a yaesu of some
> sort I don't know off hand, about 15 years old, and has an
> intermittent problem at least with the direction indicator.
>
> The tower stands literally right next to the door to the roof, and is
> a prime pidgin roost with all the consequences that come with that.
> I'm wondering if there is any worthwhile thing we can do when it goes
> up to deter them? The plastic spikes etc will be invisible to rf I'd
> assume, but there are a lot of elements and boom to cover and whether
> that would last. Do plastic owls work? Could run one up on a pulley so
> we could service the owl... :)
How thoughtful. I'll bet the owl will appreciate that. OTOH...
73
Roger (K8RI)
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