EMA Center HF Antenna Update
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Everyone,
This morning Allen K3HOC and myself spent some time at the Clearfield County EMA building trying to sort out the mess of coax antenna wires to come into the amateur radio station area.??
The long answer: There are six coax leads coming into our amateur operations area.? We determined there were cables for the 6m band antenna, three Comet GP-9 UHF/VHF antennas, and one UHF beam antenna.? The sixth cable has nothing attached?to it.? We presume this was intended for the HF antenna.
Allen spent some time investigating?cables coming down the tower that potentially could be for our HF dipole antenna.? None appeared to be from the HF antenna.? So either the cable has become completely disconnected at the?feed point on the tower, the coax cable may have?failed, or the antenna itself is just toasted.? We won't know the answer to that until someone climbs the tower to?investigate and test things.??
The short answer: We could not locate a cable that appeared to?be the HF antenna.? Allen is going to consult with the county officials and come up with a plan to move forward.??
It appears this is going to take a while.? But we will eventually get it fixed.
Thank you and 73.
John N3SPW
-- Cell Phone: (814) 553-5649
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