June 2018
SUMMER IS HERE! Lots of projects completed and ongoing!
Gotta thank my boyz from Galvanized Endeavors for the great and fun install of the antenna’s at the Loveland translator site in May!
Up goes the receive antenna on the VERY busy tower site and the antenna installed:
Thanks to Victor, Shane, Chuck, and Hodges! GREAT JOB GUYS!
Also Daniel and Alex from the best tower guy company!
As I wrote about previously, I’ve been helping out the guys at WFLI in Chattanooga Tennessee. My original first job in radio station. 50,000 watts on 1070 AM, 2500 night. They are going to open up the National Top 40 Radio Museum at the station here this summer. Visit when you can!
And how about this! Still operational, and a part of the museum to open, this 1964 Gates Gateway console from the late 60’s that was still on air when I started in 1976!
More summertime work! Proofs of our stations go on, using the connection back to HQ, the Field Fox, and Bird BPME’s. Makes it easy and quick!
Watching on Amazon, in a series called “ Man in the High Castle”, low and behold, a D-104 microphone on the podium!
Pretty cool movie prop!
Well for those of you who know W9BNO Rich, you know that he carries a virtual office with him almost anywhere he goes. So one Sunday afternoon as I am talking to him on the local 449.450 repeater he sends me a picture of his “mobile office” on a Denver RTD Light rail train! Leave it to him! 🙂
Radio in the window on the left, yes he is checking station logs on his laptop! Even on the train! Had to laugh out loud!
Well we had scehduled the new antenna installation at our Denver station for this month and that is why the newsletter is a little bit late! First of all I have to thank my crew from Galvanized Endeavors again for the 2 days of hard work to get this beautiful antenna up and operating, and then our good friend Steve KE6FIO for the QUICK tuning and proofing of the antenna and Nautel GV40 system.
Thanks to the guys from GE!
Chris, Hodges, Tor, Vic (not pictured Brett)
One of the shiny new antenna bays unboxed
The old antenna bay number 1 and tuner unit
The old antenna removed and new antenna ready to be deployed
The Chris and Brett removing the old antenna (drone shot)
Hodges and Tor mounting the top bay
Thanks again to all the crew, and Alex and Daniel at Galvanized Endeavors! By the way I will have some great video of the guys doing the install up soon. I will let you know by email when it is ready.
So again about Rich, while at a Wyoming transmitter site near Laramie, he had just finished getting our station up there back on the air. He walked out the door and saw this!
This thing has to be at least an F3! It passed to the North of our transmitter site there. Rich and I were talking on the IRLP link repeater in Laramie to Denver as the storm marched thru. Some great video of this very photogenic twister here:
https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/2018-06-07-wyoming-tornado-laramie-albany-county-june-6
There is also animation on this page of the radar and satellite views of the storm. Some of the most AMAZING video I have ever seen!
https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/2018-06-07-wyoming-tornado-laramie-albany-county-june-6
And finally, if you haven’t seen this:
Don’t forget the SBE Chapter 73’ Of the Air
AllStar (and Echolink) Hamnet, every MONDAY EVENING
At 7pm Mountain time (9pm Eastern) for radio discussions, both
Broadcast engineering and amateur radio.
Details on how to join us are at
http://www.ke0vh.com/net/net.html.
I hope
You will be able to join us and share your engineering and
Ham exploits!
73’ from “the Shack” & God Be With You!