[kwlug-disc] Ota TV CITV down?

[Daniel Villarreal]

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>> ...  free standing towers can be pricey... have to be cemented at
>> least 4 feet into the ground. ... you can do it with a few 
>> friends, assuming one of them knows what they're doing.
>> 
>> The non-free standing ones have to be secured at the roof line, 
>> and cannot go more than about 10 -15 feet above the roof line. It
>> all depends on the tower you get.

I've got an Digiwave ANT-7287 HD antenna...
www.homevisiontech.com/super-db8-adjustable-multidirectional-\hdtv-anten
na.html

I loaned it out. If I ever get it back, I'd be interested in putting
it on the roof.


> I ... remember my dad volunteering my brother and I to dig the ...
>  hole for his tower. What a crappy start to the summer. :-) -A.

Likewise, I remember my Dad volunteering my brothers and I to
replicate part of an old brewery ceiling and various other
construction tasks in our sun-room addition, Dad designed and built
the trusses. I got to to the sanding, scrubbing, prepping of the
ceiling wood.

also...
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> From: Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> ... Try contacting the 
> local Amateur Radio club www.kwarc.org/ they'd have a better idea, 
> may even have some folks that would help...

That site looks very nice. I noticed a few things in the Fedora
repositories that might be useful to radio operators.

Dad gave me an old WW2-era tube radio set. I left it behind when I
came to Canada with a couple of suitcases and a laptop, but last I
checked many years ago, it worked just fine. I've always been in awe
of tube technology, and how it apparently, to me, at least, dates
back to ancient Egyptian times (see Dendera:
www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/denderahlightbulb.html

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