Had the whole day planned out... work in the storage room and move some more stuff in the sell/donate pile, see if the rectifier tube in the S38 is the source of the roving AC voltage on the filament circuit, get the instruction manual and find out if the nixie-tubed HP DMM actually works.
Instead I spent the day troubleshooting our alarm system and taking down and taking down, repairing, and re-installing my 80M antenna, half of which came down last night in the wind. I have a small lot. The antenna is installed in a zee shape and so has four attachment points, three of which are in trees. It is just me. Imagine if you will, manipulating three separate rigging ropes, each about forty feet long, with one end in a tree, from the middle of my yard to get the antenna down and then back up. With a house in your way. Then wandering from lanyard to lanyard, loosening and tightening, to get it in the right position.
BTW, it is days like this, when I have to solder two pieces of wire together while one is hanging in the air at seven feet, that I am really happy I have an Isotip butane soldering iron...
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I did manage to bake a couple of loaves of bread somewhere in there, too.
Tomorrow a post about TE.
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