[Ccarc] chase tower

[Phil Snider]

Sounds good. I will be available Monday morning. We have a dual band antenna 
at EMA that is small (6 or 8 ft) and could be clamped to the ladder if that 
would work. It would perform better than a mag mount
antenna.  That would take some of the pressure off of being in a hurry to 
put the original antenna
back up.



Phil Snider







>From: "Chuck Hendrickson" <cdhendrickson at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: ccarc at culcom.net
>To: "Don Hyman" <k9eqt at clss.net>, "Remailer" <ccarc at culcom.net>
>Subject: [Ccarc] chase tower
>Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:55:21 -0400
>
>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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