[Ccarc] chase tower

[Chuck Hendrickson]

As everyone is aware, or should be, the repeater antenna at chase water tank is damaged from the storm last Tuesday. Our antenna is into (or appears to be) LFD's antenna and it may not be causing a problem now but I'd like to correct the problem now so it doesn't cause a problem AND we can be good neighbors in the process. In much discussion we'd like to try to get a climb done over the weekend depending on weather to do several things. 

1. Get something up temporarily that will regain some of the preformance back we lack at present. 
2. Get plenty of pictures to see what is broken so we can form a plan of attack to fix what's broken properly. 
3. Lower the damaged parts for possible repair or replacement as necessary. 
4. Possibly correct any problems our antenna caused or report those problems to the Fire Dept for correction. 

I realize that doing things this way requires two trips up the tower but at this point if we wait until we can do everything once I personally won't have time to dedicate an entire day on the tower until sometime in mid to late July and perhaps not even then. Not to mention doing it this way we can actually see what's going on and form a plan based on facts rather than speculating what may be wrong up there. I plan on having LOTS and I mean LOTS of pictures from every conceivable angle and direction so we can answer as many questions as possible with the pictures and what we can't, we can answer with personal observation. 
I don't anticipate requiring tons of ground help (three or four folks at most should be fine) nor do I anticipate being up there more than a few hours. At this point the weather looks to be the most cooperative on Monday. If we start up the tower sometime around 7 or so even if we lower down everything I don't anticipate being up there much past 10AM. This will get everyone home by noon at the latest. 
What at this point we need is the supplies to do a climb. 

Todd- There was a smaller harness that was around when we did an EMA climb a few years ago. Do you know where it is?
Tom Murray- I seem to remember you having rope last time we did a Chase climb, is this the case? 
John or Rae- Dave sent you an email already but your ladders could be of great use not to mention hand tools. 
Anyone- Whoever might have a digital camera with LOTS of space would be of great need. 

I can't think of anything else at the moment but I would really appreciate it if folks got back to me here so we can all see the availability and such to get this done. Thanks everyone and have a great day. 



73, 
Chuck Hendrickson N9PMW
President CCARC
http://www.culcom.net/~ccarcinc
ARRL Ham Radio's National Association
http://www.arrl.org
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