To keep a station running its important to make is reliable, easy to use and in case of trouble, easy to take down for inspection. On this page will will give you some tips how we did it at PI4CC .
We make a tower base for a 24 meter free standing tower without concrete.
Two towers are mounted to a bunker with chemical anchors.
We have make a nice solution to mount a antenna to a rotor pipe.
How to get good coax for less €? We use 7/8" flexwell coax.
We have a Multi/Single shack with patch panel. This give to possibility to reroute antennas to other shacks.
To reduce overloading the trx on an other band we have make filters with coax stubs.
To be sure to get dx-spots we have setup our own dx-cluster.
How to put up a new tower without a crane.
Adding direction control to an old (heavy) rotor. A home made adapter from 1-5/8 EIA to a 7/16" spinner.
