Mow the back lawn- Buy tickets for Vegas.
Repair van window- Update bills on Estate Website
- Wells Fargo Advisors
- 1/4 drill bit LONG
- Garbage Can for Cave
Recycling- Good Will
- Hand truck
- Buy 6 AWG bare wire for grounds
- fertilize the lawn
- Buy a hose
- D Repair radiator on Blue.
- Program remote access backup routers for mom.
- Drive to FL
- Install remote access
- Install MJ Phone
- Repair VPN
- Install Home Assistant
- Bring back 55″ TV
- Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
- D Repair the brakes on Blue.
- Follow-up Appt with Lung Doc.
- Check temperatures for Pahrump pump house every week.
- Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
- Two more 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from DigiKey
- Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
- Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
- Check Mom’s accounts
- Fix mom’s printer working
- File estate taxes.
- Hire a lawyer for Arizona.
- Run generators
- Pull RG213 through attic to cave.
I had removed the lining of the door to facilitate closing the window after it failed. I know how badly moisture can ruin a vehicle from previous broken windows.
To remove this panel it required releasing the two handles holding the window AND supporting the window in a raised position until I could get this panel back in place.
This is the old hardware that I am about to replace.
There weren’t too many bolts, and it wasn’t terribly difficult.
The most difficult part of finishing the door was getting the window clips back into their holes under the window. I ended up using a pair of wire cutters as pliers to push the clips behind the glass.
- I measured the voltage between my house ground and the coax shield and it was 6VDC.
- When I first mounted this antenna I did have a 6AWG wire running from the antenna to the house grounds. I had to steal that ground wire to ground the antenna on the 25’ pole. *Which is where I originally planned on returning it too. I’ve been fighting with the poor design of the antenna base ever since I got this antenna. The base (Without the ground plate) seems commonly used to mount whip antennas on vehicles. I also had plans to ground the radio, but alas I have been using my time with moving / modifying this silly 5/8 wave antenna.
- The ground was left off the antenna so that I could evaluate how much RF remained at the base of the antenna. I had also put a loop in the coax and a ferrite toroid core around the coax at the base of the antenna to lessen/isolate any RF riding on the coax shield. (It seemed unlikely that I would get injured with 12W RF (25V @ 50 Ohms) My ELMER does not use a ground plane OR a ground wire at his antenna. (His antenna is sitting on a wooden painting stick LOL.) I have looked at antenna analyzers on Amazon and they all look like China grey market crap.
- As bad as the following antenna looks, I am only getting a little over a watt back from the antenna at 25W forward power. It was a LOT easier to work with 18AWG wire radials which is also the gauge of the magnet wire that the antenna radiating element is made of. (Which I read is a way of increasing the “Q” of the radials.) The reason for the high number of radials was to vary the length slightly so that several of them would be resonant at any given frequency. (According to “Google Foo”, if the “Q” is high, then resonance of the radials would be a narrow spike.) I did realize that the radiation pattern would change as the radials that are resonant changed. (But then I have 9 of them.)
- I hadn’t counted on the “L” bracket from Dish network being approximately ¼ wavelength long. I’ll have to insulate the antenna from the mast to find out how much that affected my setup.