The Quiver

While visiting the hospital for the birth of my son, I bumped into an employee and fellow ham who was excited to show me the new HF antenna they’ll be putting up to suppliment their VHF/UHF capabilities for major disaster situations. The series of hospitals in the valley already participate in several sets of drills, including CSEPP. We also operate for RACES test nets from the EOCs of as many as we can to make sure the equipment is functional, ready to go, and accessible. (You might be surprised what a change in administration will do to your auxiliary commo setup.)

Anyway, the point of this post was to show the mount point up on the roof. The pipe just to the left of the ladder is where the 15-ft fold-over mount will go, with a 25-ft multi-band HF vertical on top of that.

And here’s one of my favorite views, Mt. Timpanogos, as seen from just behind the antenna array in the first shot. (This is the picture I use for my QSL cards, too.)

Any time you can get somewhere like this and have these kinds of views … priceless.

I was reminded recently that there was an entry that wanted writing. Since it’s Thanksgiving weekend and the kids are in bed I might as well get it out of the way, eh? (Now if I were really on the ball, I would have a nice new laptop, with functional WiFi so I could sit in the living room with everyone else while I write this, but I’m an anti-MS curmudgeon, and it can be difficult to convince Linux and WiFi to behave themselves on old hardware.)

Anyway…

I read a post over at my mother’s site about men up on roofs. (Shouldn’t that be “rooves?” Oh wait, this is English; it’s not supposed to make sense.) No good deed goes unpunished, so I left a comment on her entry, which stirred up memories of a weekend not too far past.

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