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Visible rock before the drilling work,
where the antenna
system will be placed, project start September 2009. |
This telescopic aluminum tower from Cue Dee will be the base
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the antenna system. |
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Work to isolate the tower from ground has started up. |
Old man cleaning up those 45 mm holes that where first done with a cutting torch in the 20 mm bottom steel plate. |
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Some mig-welding work to fix the pieces at correct places. |
Close picture of one welded point and a 45 mm hole in the steel plate. |
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Bottom steel plate welded all around and ready for painting. |
Welded with power and big electrodes. |
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Göran Foghammar with his diamond drilling machine. |
My buddy Göran shows one of todays heavy drill cores. |
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Drill work with the insulators in my Lathe. |
More work in the Lathe with the insulators. |
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The bottom plate now painted and ready. |
Insulators to the vertical antenna tower. |
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4 pieces of 15 mm thick steel washers to carry the
vertical antenna
tower from Cue Dee. |
Some welding work to be done, just making a tool for concrete
constructional work. Stainless steel threaded rods in place. |
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The tool is welded and ready! |
Ready for concrete constructional work! |
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Old man in mixing business with a drilling machine. |
All holes filled up and the threaded rods still in place. |
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A form to be filled with concrete is just produced and in place. |
Form is filled with concrete! |
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Cleaning up the area where the tower will lay down. |
Husky chainsaw, a typical antenna tool? |
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Concrete fundament finished, some parts in place. |
Steel plate mounted between insulators. |
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Bottom part of the telescopic tower mounted and ready. |
SA6AMV (my son), Torbjörn "Linda" Lind and Stig "Stisse" Strömberg help me to mount the Cue Dee Alu-Tower. |
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Tower mounted to the bottom part. |
Tower finally erected and a good way up in the air. |
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If the antenna pipe is too long, just make a hole in the wall,
6 meter 50 mm aluminum pipe in my Storebro Lathe. |
Other end of the aluminum pipe through the wall and outside the antenna workshop... ;-) |
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Connection to the top pipe in the tower. |
All pipes delivered to antenna place, 18 meter on top of tower. |
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Alu-plate on top of the Cue Dee telescope tower. |
The stack of oak wood grows every day! |
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Connection to the top pipe in the tower instead of a rotator. |
Tower antenna without top-cap, a total length of 24 meter. |
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Test with a fishing rod in the top, total length 30 meter. |
Center part of ground plane system on the planning board. |
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Copper and brass pipes to be welded together. |
And here's the result, brass pipes to carry the copper frame! |
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Copper frame in center position. |
Paper tubes filled with concrete and frame in balance. |
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Old man with ground plane wire drum, waiting for the boat. |
Young man, SA6AMV-Henrik, captain of the boat. |
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View from the boat when we were dropping wires! |
The center with the growing amount of wires! |
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ATU # 1 under construction... |
Coil is almost finished, check with the AADE LC-meter. |
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ATU # 1 installated and
ready for more adjustments... |
Center part of the top-cap under construction. |
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Top cap in mother nature, one fishing rod in place. |
All three fishing rods mounted with copper wire inside. |
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Picture from the top side. |
Top cap 24 meter up and seems to work ok now. |
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More and more wires connected to the copper pipes. |
New top-cap on the workbench, to be like a giant umbrella. |
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Angle grinder to cut out the profile from 5 mm al-plate. |
The center is ready, only the fishing rods is missing. |
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Photo from top side of the new top-cap center. |
Picture of the new Top-cap with 6 meter foldable fishing rods. |
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Nice picture of the antenna system at sunset in december. |
New ATU # 2 under construction... |
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A handy matching transformer... |
ATU # 2 completed. |
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ATU # 2 installed a cold
december day, works just fine! |
View from lake side winter 2009-2010.
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New L-Antenna in the air october 2010, works great! |
5 oak trees down to free a gate for the L-antenna wire. |
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| No need for a variometer anymore, just a wire in the air. |
Another view from the lake side, antenna and station house. |
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| Modification of the tower to get a bit higher up... :-) |
Top plate ready with a new 150 mm hole. |
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| Inside the top part of the new 150 mm aluminum tube. |
70 mm tube fits into the top part of the 150 mm tube. |
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| Bottom part of the new big aluminum tube. |
This unwelded part is to be mounted at the top of the tower. |
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| Welding work to get the aluminum tubes together. |
Complete new part with a 70 mm aluminum tube inserted. |
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| The new 150 mm tube connected to the tower. |
Telescopic top 12 meter tube connected to 150 mm tube,
XYL calling for medical help to the OM... ;-)
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| Tower in the air, but not yet at top hight. |
Tower erected and works just fine! |
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| My son SA6AMV digging to improve earth plane. |
Next hole in the ground, hardworking junior... |
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| Aluminum disc in the ground connected to earth plane. |
New coil in the ATU for fine adjustment on 472 kHz. |
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| New coilbox at backside of the tower for longwave work. |
Adding 980 uH gets the system in resonance at 136 kHz. |
