[IRCA] Beverage antenna is back up!

[mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)]

After nearly a month of not having the complete beverage back up, it is
back up tonight. It took another 4 hours to get the other 1,000 feet of
it up and going. I had to raise it on top of the hill so my neighbors
can get the farm equipment through, but it looks pretty good. A bit
higher the 600-700 part, but at 2 PM today KATQ 1070 Plentywood MT was
S9 (5KW) and Pocatello on 1290 was S9+10 DB. So I am impressed. I still
have more work to do on it including soldering a few splices and
replacing some of the wire, but at least it is up again. I have never
had it out of commission this long since I installed it in 1984. But
between the damage of our huge storm and the bad weather about all of
December, it was impossible to get it back up any sooner. Fortunately, I
did not miss out on any Eastern DX Tests. I just got WCXH-780 shortly
before the storm. Hopefully it will stay up until Summer when I can get
everything done the way I want to. But what a pain. Altogether it look
well over 8 hours to do the whole thing, about as much time as it took
when I put it in 1984.

73,

Patrick

Patrick Martin
KAVT Reception Manager

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