All, It’s time to give a status update on the SDLink since we lost the Humboldt site several weeks ago. Over the 30 years that the SDLink has been in operation, this has probably been the most challen

Here are a few pictures.

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: 20 Meter tower Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 05:36:05 +0000 From: Scot Montgomery <n0jpe@...> To: Ed Gray W0SD <w0sd@...>, Jack Gray <jackgray@...>, Curt Gray

I know many of you have been here already but if there are some that have not and are interested in helping we are starting at 9 am Saturday, May 21st. Ed W0SD

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KD0QYR Dusty will take check ins from SF and Turkey Ridge. I can take check ins from Watertown and Toronto. We need someone to be NCS for the SD-Link that is up and running, ie WS, Crandall Hill and w

If any one is interested the clean up continues tomorrow afternoon. In the future if you are interested in helping there will be plenty to do all summer. I will likely also schedule another week end w

I have gotten clearance from the insurance company to go ahead and start cleaning up. If you are interested in helping we will start about 8:30 am in the morning, ie Saturday morning. If you have boxe

Progress Nick KT0W helped me as my subscription had been cancelled after I got back from AZ. He works at Verizon World so it is now renewed for 100 gb. Kind of hard to renew without internet, etc. Now

I have no idea how long the electricity will be off and internet. I am using my cell phone as a hot spot but I have very limited data so I am on for just a little while tonight. I have some damage to

Don AA0F, Ed W0SD and Kevin KB0UZJ spent the day in the Colman, Wentworth area looking at potential repeater sites we had previously identified and found a couple of new ones. We did on the ground tes

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Thanks to help from Steve KB0KBJ in helping me access the sdlink.org web site I was able to update the sdlink.org web site. I updated the repeater list, worked on the long pre-amble and sdlink history

The tower was dropped a little after 4 pm. The procedure was as follows: Look at the picture of the pier bolt which had the nut cut off of it Look at the picture of the NE guy point. That was cut with

Here are a couple photos from Humboldt later in the day. Tony KB0WSW

Attached is what I got at Humboldt. The tower is coming down at 3 pm this afternoon so Brian was in a panic so he wanted me take anything I wanted. I told him down the road if he needed any of the tow

We did good getting the stuff out of the Humboldt site on Saturday despite the rain. Vantek has all the stuff off the tower. I am to meet Brian owner of Vantek at the tower site at 11 am this morning

The SF-UHF antenna was pointed at 309 degrees to Humboldt and W0SD is 284 degrees so it was 25 degrees off according to Google Earth. Using my GPS I showed 284 degrees to be aimed at the corner of the

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