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07/08/2009 Dennis from Berkshire wireless called and asked about how much rust removal we wanted and also suggested EPOXY paint. 3 days to do the tower. I expect this to be expensive. No estimate from him yet.
07/07/2009 Dennis from Berkshire Wireless called and will work up an estimate for us.
07/06/2009 Tower painting. So far I have attempted to contact with no real success the guys listed below.
We have the State Requirement to paint on a day with NO WIND per Clebe. This will be hard on Greylock as it rarely has no wind!
Tower painters:
- K1TTT refered: Matt is kc1xx and XX-Towers. matt@kc1xx.com (k1ttt main guy) (508)878-9033 (no reply email)? NewHampshire. $2,000 + paint. $280 per hour. What type and color of paint? We need to send a chunk of paint to him. Cold zinc paint needs temp 55 to 60 degrees. Wind is lighter early in the AM. 6am or so. End of July or August he is available. Send paint chip to: xxtowers inc, 814 hurricane hill rd, mason, nh 03048. FYI: Red & White FAA approved paint is $60 per gallon but we do not use FAA paint. This Cold Zinc paint is alot cheaper and without the stripes it should take less time to paint. I also told him we did not have a lot of widgets to paint except the angle steel arms that hold the antennas.
- New Scotland Communications. Jim (WB2CMD) I had no phone # so I looked up in the phone book (518)768-2825 (No Answer phone)
- BERKSHIRE WIRELESS • JOHN KELLOGG • 480 PLEASANT ST • LEE,
MASS. 01238, USA • Telephone 413-243-3331 • Fax 4132434119 • E-mail: JKELLOGG@CCITELE.COM
(Left message)
- Prescott Towers Services Ltd
Rutland, VT 05701 (802) 773-8844, I have not tried. Long ways
away.
- Cory Thurston from Williamstown no contact info
- Garold Hoose gary@polepainter.com (989)382-8254 (951)283-8714. Michigan based company. Estimates require plan fare and hotel +++.
- Dave Chounard 802-793-2993
- Alpha Antenna service Rodney Gifford 315-682-9162
- Northeast Tower Steve Savino 860-677-1999
9/16/06 tower party!
First: FULL results can be found on our
club web site. http://www.nobarc.org/repeaters.htm,
Scroll down a little and click on: We have a
LOT more green than we have had in a LONG time!
We had some beautiful weather! Awesome is more like it! We had three tower climbers this time, Bob N2LUD, Frank KA2QYE, and Matt (not licensed yet). We also had a wonderful turn out for ground crew. Jim K2LM who is the one that helped us in convincing Bob and Frank to help us out. Jim is also a very dedicated ham that has helped us maintain virtually every repeater we have. It was wonderful to see these guys all helping today. We also had quite a number of other NoBarc members help. Some from NewYork like Wayne K2WG plus we had Sigurd, Ed, Fran, Paul, Joe, Pat, and John (I am sure I messed someone!). Actually I think we were very nearly out numbered by DX help than Berkshire County help! It was awesome to see Matt (also from NY) come help. He is not even a ham (yet)! We had to take advantage of Pat N1LZH who stayed in Pittsfield on standby to bring up emergency parts. I accidentally forgot the packet antenna and Pat brought it up for us. Jim and Sigurd replaced the 91 power supply and peaked it up to max power out with minimum desense. They also discovered a working battery charger/switch in the old 6meter power supply so we still have battery backup! Sounds real good huh? Well part of that was because Frank discovered the hardline connector was bad. It was amazing to watch Frank put on a new hardline connected while hanging from the tower 50 feet up in the air! I have a hard time doing that on my woprkbench! 449.425 is back on the tower again and sounds real good huh? Well, that is due in part to discovering a jumper in the rack that had a bad jumper. The connector rotates all the way around and had no ground! We had such real good luck but it did end on 224.1. We spent a lot of time attempting to get it working. The tower guys had a very expensive nifty tool called a time difference relectometer (or something like that). It can find the location of hardline damage. It showed us that the hardline was damaged at around 69 feet from the inside of the bunker. We attempted twice to reduce the length of the hardline and put new connectors on (again while hanging in the air, just amazing to me) with no success. Bottom line is we are going to need to replace the 224.1 hardline. That will not be easy and we will need some younger guys with muscle. If you have noticed I usually show up for take downs on our messy events. It is often one of the most often overlooked parts of any ham event. Fun set up turns out to be painful cleanup. Well we had a mess of old useless PVC pipe from the tower. Obie N1QOV offered to take it and dispose of it properly for the club. Now that was a HUGE relief for us!
Thanks to everyone how helped out!
Tim KE3HT (2 meter repeater manager).
We have a
LOT more green than we have had in a LONG time!We had some beautiful weather! Awesome is more like it! We had three tower climbers this time, Bob N2LUD, Frank KA2QYE, and Matt (not licensed yet). We also had a wonderful turn out for ground crew. Jim K2LM who is the one that helped us in convincing Bob and Frank to help us out. Jim is also a very dedicated ham that has helped us maintain virtually every repeater we have. It was wonderful to see these guys all helping today. We also had quite a number of other NoBarc members help. Some from NewYork like Wayne K2WG plus we had Sigurd, Ed, Fran, Paul, Joe, Pat, and John (I am sure I messed someone!). Actually I think we were very nearly out numbered by DX help than Berkshire County help! It was awesome to see Matt (also from NY) come help. He is not even a ham (yet)! We had to take advantage of Pat N1LZH who stayed in Pittsfield on standby to bring up emergency parts. I accidentally forgot the packet antenna and Pat brought it up for us. Jim and Sigurd replaced the 91 power supply and peaked it up to max power out with minimum desense. They also discovered a working battery charger/switch in the old 6meter power supply so we still have battery backup! Sounds real good huh? Well part of that was because Frank discovered the hardline connector was bad. It was amazing to watch Frank put on a new hardline connected while hanging from the tower 50 feet up in the air! I have a hard time doing that on my woprkbench! 449.425 is back on the tower again and sounds real good huh? Well, that is due in part to discovering a jumper in the rack that had a bad jumper. The connector rotates all the way around and had no ground! We had such real good luck but it did end on 224.1. We spent a lot of time attempting to get it working. The tower guys had a very expensive nifty tool called a time difference relectometer (or something like that). It can find the location of hardline damage. It showed us that the hardline was damaged at around 69 feet from the inside of the bunker. We attempted twice to reduce the length of the hardline and put new connectors on (again while hanging in the air, just amazing to me) with no success. Bottom line is we are going to need to replace the 224.1 hardline. That will not be easy and we will need some younger guys with muscle. If you have noticed I usually show up for take downs on our messy events. It is often one of the most often overlooked parts of any ham event. Fun set up turns out to be painful cleanup. Well we had a mess of old useless PVC pipe from the tower. Obie N1QOV offered to take it and dispose of it properly for the club. Now that was a HUGE relief for us!
Thanks to everyone how helped out!
Tim KE3HT (2 meter repeater manager).
You think your job is tricky!
