Tower Repair Pictures

Spout Springs Repeater Association

Site clean up work party August 31

Many thanks to the group that went to the site Saturday to secure the guy ends and do a site clean up.

Left to right Jack WA7SDV, Dick N7ZH, Jody N7ERT and Kathy N7MTH attending to the securing of the guy ends. The ends have to be secured so they don't rattle against themselves when the wind is blowing. They cause noise in the receiver.

There was some recreating going on too. Here is Mrs. Misener, Dick N7ZH XYL.

Kyonghui Cross N7OII taking a ride. The above pictures were taken by Kyonghui.

HUGE THANKS TO THE FIVE AND SIX MEMBER WORK PARTY!

The members of SSRA owe a big debt of gratitude to the 6 member work party that restored the tower and returned the repeater to regular operation.

Dick Misener N7ZH Technical Director

Jody Cross N7ERT Involved with many repeaters and has several of his own.

Bob Lynch KC7AWL from Hood River

Don Ficken WA7DZB from Elgin

Jack Jensen WA7SDV Station Trustee

Walt Davis W7ALT also has a repeater.

Dick N7ZH and Jody N7ERT at the top.

Dick and Jody climbing the tower.

A "Ginpole is mounted at the top in order to hoist a tower section into place for mounting to tower. In this case the top section, the section that receives the Sinclair antenna has been hoisted and is ready to mount on the tower.

Bob KC7AWL, Don WA7DZB and Jack WA7SDV getting things sorted out.

Special thanks to Walt Davis W7ALT for taking the pictures in addition to helping with the tower repair.

WA7DZB Don, N7ZH Dick, N7ERT Jody and KC7AWL Bob

The shack is over 20 years old. It needs some tender loving care or replacement. Sitting on stilts in order to try to keep it above the snow the batteries for emergency power are located in a "Battery Box" under the shack.

Here the guys are setting and tightening the guy wires.

Dick N7ZH, Jody N7ERT and Bob KC7AWL planning the next move.

Cutting the coax. Note the size of the coax, big stuff, low loss.

Hooray! It's back up!

Walt W7ALT is surveying the junk that has to be removed from the site. Also there are a lot of small trees and brush that have to be removed in order to bring our site into acceptable standards.