Quote Originally Posted by AE5CP View Post
Howdy!


Down by the river?
I love that area.
Yeah, from where we are, we look through the river valley to the south,
and to the west, where it makes a left and heads toward Lake Francis.
Good aperture for the Tulsa market TV's and Fort Smith to the south.
Not to mention DX--worked Christmas Island during a 160 CW 'test. :)

Know that site well. I worked for the local cable operator for 8 years
starting as a cable guy and working my way up to a Network Engineer.
We did some work for them as well. We had a headend off of brush creek road
just up the hill from that site.

It's a wildlife protected area, but devoid of trees where the guy wire anchors would go.
It was the perfect site for FM 2-county area coverage, and only 4 miles from our home.
The irony is, before construction began the new owners tried to screw me out of two weeks pay,
so we parted ways.

During my stint with the cable operator I wound up in Pittsburg pretty often, we call it the
crown jewel of southeast Kansas. I liked the town, especially the speed trap near the university.
Never got a traffic ticket, but there were lots of discourteous drivers in that town.




Good luck with that [grounded B+ thread]!
Competency in actually making homebrew electronics work is not my forte.
I can fix things all day, but creating from scratch is a challenge.
I started with a big tube-type regulated power supply that Tulsa U no longer needed.
The power transformer was the only useful component--built the amp around it.
Yes, good luck to anyone discussing a tech subject amidst constant childish distractions.

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