I visited the K3IR tower site for their Elmer Night. People were configuring cameras and testing an ultra-portable FT8 setup:
- truSDX radio
- ft8cn on a phone
- very lightweight wire antenna and transformer kit
- an inexpensive, but super-long, fishing pole as a mast
(Now I need one of those fishing poles.)
I borrowed a soldering iron and started on my own project: assembling a couple common mode chokes from a short piece of RG174. It got dark quick, so I finished the chokes at home. It was my first time trying to crimp those SMA connectors.
I got a quick tour of all the repeater hardware. There are a lot more services running on these towers than I realized.
