N5FWB, Gerald and KG5HOK, Keith checkout EOC vertical antennas ontop of B30 JSC.
W5RRR Crankup Tower
KG5HOK devised a cleverly simple u-bolt mounting scheme to get our temporary 50′ crackup tower up for operation.
It will live at the empty concrete slab until we can get the plans (and funds) in place to re-erect the 60′ full sized tower.
IC-781 update- Fixed (for a few weeks now)
Updating this Blog subject,…
IC-781 HF transceiver now working fine (fingers crossed) so we’re back to 3x HF radios in the shack.
Insidious R20 fusible resistor kept tricking us into thinking there was a downstream failure embedded in the power line supply.
Turns out that Icom engineers very cleverly designed this inline resistor just below the edge of it’s power handling capacity.
Working on the IC-781
IC-781 repair is in work. Thanks to KB5PGY David Fanelli’s work, the problem is isolated
