Since the temperatures are below zero one of my 4 Prosistel rotors is frozen. It’s the one who turns the Steppir antenna. I (was) am not sure if it is the rotor or it’s the bearing on top of the tower, which is made from nylon . The antenna mast pipe is fitting very tightly.
I went up with some hot water and sprayed it over the rotor.
When I was in the shack I could turn the rotor…
Thomas PA1M was here and we tried to find out what the problem is with the ICE 419B. There is a bad SWR on 10m. We found that the caps where probably out of specs. The colar looked not good hi. My Caps meter is at Jan PA0VAJ his shack hi, and we could not reach Jan. So we stopped and Thomas took it home to finish it there.
As you may have noticed the slidewhow pictures which are placed and rotate at the top of the website were not shwon anymore (for a few days).
In the end we found out it was a problem with the settings of the caching plugin (W3 Total Cache) and how the Superb Slideshow Gallery plugin we use in the top works. The Minify settings for Javascript had to be set “Combine only after
“. After this setting all was fine again.During the storm 2 weeks ago the antennas from the EME system elevated 40 degrees.
Today it was a quiet day and I brought them back in the normal 0 elevation position.
I found out that not as sometimes before the middle pipe turned but the vertical legs on
both sides are a little loose at high winds.
I don’t like this because is very hard to change this. I need a man lift for this job…..
Today I looked at the versatower with the Steppir in it and saw that the head unit was bending a bit. I went up the tower and saw that the problem was that one of the 3 nuts holding the head unit was driven into the tube which holds the head unit. I made two strips to get it back into the original position.
Below you see that the pipe has now the shape of an nut.
Here you can see the two extra metal strips I mounted to make sure the headunit will not bent any further.