Snow is coming to New England this weekend so we wanted to get the control cables run to our new EME Tower before the ground is covered with snow. The project involved installing a Utility Enclosure…
We made some more progress on our 2m EME Station Project this past weekend. We began by installing a Utility Controller on our new EME Tower. With this done, we next ran three control cables through the conduits between our shack and the Tower. The control cables connect to our Azimuth Rotator, Elevation Rotator, and a planned MAP65 Switching and Preamp System.
Green Heron Az-El Rotator Controller
With the cables run, we connected our Azimuth Rotator to a Green Heron Az/El Rotator Controller in our shack. This enabled us to get our Azimuth Rotator configured and tested.
The next step in our EME Station Project will be to assemble the antennas that we have on order from M2 Antennas Systems and install them along with an H-Frame and related gear on our new Tower. We are hoping that the winter weather will allow us to get this done before spring.
Our goal for this phase of our EME Station Project is to get our new tower up, install the Azimuth Rotator and Mast, and run the hardline and coax cables for our antennas from the shack to our new …
We got our new 26 ft EME tower up this past week. The new tower is a hybrid free-standing/guyed design and will support our planned 2M EME Antenna System.
Install the phase-tuned coax cables and hardline coax that will connect our antennas to the rest of our station
Connecting the coax cables and hardlines to an expanded station ground block at the entry to our shack
You can read all about this phase of our project via the link above. The next phase of our project will include running control cables and installing a control cable junction box on the tower, hooking up and testing the rotator, completing our grounding and bonding system, and preparing to install the antennas and tower electronics when they arrive from M2 Antenna Systems.
The first part of our EME project is to put up a new tower to support our antennas. Our plans call for a 26′ tower built using three Rohn 55G tower sections. Four feet of the first section of…
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