{"id":7389,"date":"2016-09-17T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2016-09-17T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T16:03:10","slug":"giant-work-party-takes-down-wa7lt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=7389","title":{"rendered":"GIANT WORK PARTY TAKES DOWN WA7LT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00;\"><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1636-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1636\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7243\" \/><br \/>\nThe crew  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1602-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1602\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1602-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1602-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1602-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nRandy W7TJ points to a flying antenna<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1589-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1589\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1589-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1589-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1589-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe owner of WA7LT Lamar Ray, one of the original founders of the SDXA and long time DXer<\/p>\n<p>It was an all day event on Tuesday, July 26 at Lamar&#8217;s QTH located South of the city.  The project consisted of three towers (two Rohn 25 and one Rohn 45) and lots of antennas.  <\/p>\n<p>Everything including the inside station equipment is for sale as Lamar retires to an assisted living QTH in Spokane Valley.  Jim Fenstermaker K9JF is handing the sale and should be contacted if you are interested in any of the items.  Reach him at jfenster@pacifier.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1664-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1664\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1664-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1664-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1664-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThis tower came down as one piece using the 120 foot crane.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1597-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1597\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1597-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1597-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1597-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nTower climber Jeremiah Puhek KD7DMP, owner and engineer of JP Telecomm<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at a recent SDXA meeting and welcomes solicitations from hams that need a professional climber to complete their antenna\/ tower installations or removals. He can be reached at Jeremiah@jptelecomm.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1591-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1591\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1591-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1591-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1591-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nAttention ground crew: stand by. . . !<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1643-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1643\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1643-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1643-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1643-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThis is NOT a case of one person screwing in the light bulb and the rest holding the ladder!  It&#8217;s a case of the mast preventing the antenna from reaching the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/jpg0002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"jpg0002\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/jpg0002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/jpg0002.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nJim Fenstermaker K9JF and Lamar Ray WA7LT in 2012 at a convention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}