Site Pictures 

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Buildings at tower site. The two buildings in front belong to the site owner and house several repeaters for the Electric Co-Op, a community repeater, and other commercial services. The towers in the background are also owned by the site owner. The first one is a Rohn-55 that is 300 ft tall. The other is a Rohn-25 that is about 160-180 ft tall. It is in bad shape is and about to be taken down. The Repeater Shack. This building is a former FAA Marker Beacon Transmitter building. It came complete with AC Breaker panel, thermostatically controlled heat and ventilation fan. Steve (W9KOP) bought 2 of these at FAA auctions for a price too low to mention here. Equipment in shack: (Left Rack Top to Bottom) 444.325 DB Products DB4076W Duplexers, 444.325 Controller (RLC-1), KD4SIY 444.325 Mastr II Repeater, GE 30 Amp Power supply,W9KOP 53.37 Receiver and 440 Link transmitter (both Mastr II), GE 30 Amp power supply, Peet Bros Wx Station and TNC, K4GIG-7 Mastr II APRS Node, GE 18 amp power supply. (Right Rack Top to Bottom: GE 30 Amp power supply,W9KOP 224.100 GE Mastr II, 224.100 TX/RX Duplexers, Battery float charger. Here is another view, this time from the back of the building. A view of the tower and buildings from the north. Here is a picture of me (KD4SIY) looking on while Paul (KF4TTB) makes configuration changes to the Davis Weather Station that is attached to the K4GIG-7 APRS Node. The gray, metal box in the lower left next to the building is an old traffic light controller cabinet. It used to house all of the equipment at the site, but as you can see, we have outgrown it. We may put a packet node in it in the future. Looking up the tower. Amateur Radio antennas at the site. Another view of the antennas. On the far left is the antenna for APRS. It is a Comet Tri-Bander of sort, a G6-220 for the 224.100 repeater, and a DB-420 for the 444.325 repeater. Here is a view of the tower from the North/Northeast. In case you are wondering, the tower is 190 ft tall and we are at the 100 ft mark. Here is another view of the tower, this time from the East/Southeast. See, there are actually some things at the tower site that are easy on the eyes.