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Title: Feeder site antenna upgrade (KSFO/KOAK)
Post by: Squawk 7700 on January 27, 2014, 11:21:51 AM
I'll be upgrading my San Francisco Area antennas in the next few days.
Doubling my antenna height using a telescoping fiberglass mast along with Phillystran® Guy lines for the project.
There may be brief signal outages as I switch the coax around as well?
Ken
 
Title: Re: Feeder site antenna upgrade (KSFO/KOAK)
Post by: InterpreDemon on January 27, 2014, 11:26:05 AM
Send pictures...
Title: Re: Feeder site antenna upgrade (KSFO/KOAK)
Post by: Squawk 7700 on January 27, 2014, 12:06:32 PM
Send pictures...

We'll do!

I originally wanted to do a timelapse video, but that would have been a project on it's own!  :-D

I'll take some photos tonight.

Ken
Title: Re: Feeder site antenna upgrade (KSFO/KOAK)
Post by: bbrasmussen on January 27, 2014, 04:26:44 PM
Look forward to seeing and hearing the results.
Title: Re: Feeder site antenna upgrade (KSFO/KOAK)
Post by: Squawk 7700 on January 28, 2014, 12:01:04 AM
Beam antenna aligned. Took longer than I thought, and it got dark and cold on the roof so I came back down.

Still need to caulk with roofing tar tomorrow and take some photos.

Ken
Title: Re: Feeder site antenna upgrade (KSFO/KOAK)
Post by: dave on January 29, 2014, 12:37:31 AM
Sounds good, Ken…I have a lot of antenna work stacked up here on the East coast…just too cold to do much of it.  :-)
Title: Re: Feeder site antenna upgrade (KSFO/KOAK)
Post by: Squawk 7700 on February 02, 2014, 02:48:51 AM
Photos are up. Sorry guys for the little delay. I ended up with a nasty cold and it was just today that I had enough energy to do some finishing touches and take some photos.  :-)
Ken