back to Antenna Parties

2012.03.25 Readlyn evaluation:


The Readlin water tower will make an outstanding location for a repeater, providing great coverage to the
North. We had a great turnout of ground crew to handle the shack work and climber support.

Maybe not impressive for some, but this was my highest climb to-date, and was a wonderful experience.
The view from up on the tower (125 ft at the catwalk) was breathtaking.

Kip was also on the tower, and together we got most of the work done that day, though another trip would
be necessary to finish the tower work. We lacked some hardware we needed, and were running out of light.
All the ground work was done and all we had left was coax dressing and physically attaching the antenna
to the tower.

conduit ground 1	conduit ground 3	conduit ground2	ladder welded to tower	locked ladder 1	locked ladder 2
locked ladder 4	locked ladder3	safety 1	safety 2	scale

estimating heights 1.mp4 (6 MB)	estimating heights 2.mp4 (5 MB)	estimating heights 3.mp4 (13 MB)	ladder check.mp4 (4 MB)	ladder welded.mp4 (10 MB)	ladder welded2.mp4 (24 MB)
locked ladder and safety line.mp4 (5 MB)	locked.mp4 (1180 KB)	planning around fill pipe.mp4 (17 MB)	planning coax.mp4 (7 MB)	planning feed line.mp4 (15 MB)	repeater installation and line trenching.mp4 (76 MB)
shed inside.mp4 (16 MB)	shed outside.mp4 (36 MB)

highest resolution images
last updated 05/20/2025 at 15:35:18 by make_www_index.command version 2025.05.20.B