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March 26, 2000 Sunday.
Simon Howell KE4TUU , Steve Gulmon WL7NW and Benny worked on system road was slippery but passable with the  4 wheel drive.  Spent $20.00 on gas for the truck and $20.00 for food at the Buffalo burger joint.. The hamtronic T403 (frequency synthesized) version was spectruming all over the place. Resoldered the pc board around the oscillator and it seemed to fix the problem.  Tested it at home for two weeks .. installed it and it worked well.

Hooked up a MFJ diplexer with a Polyphaser to the X50 antenna.  The signal to FBKS was about 80% quieting.  Tried the Hamtronic 440  10 watt amp that was there but it did not work.  Pulled the amp and will check it out again.  This unit seems to work well for awhile and then quits.  I re-tune it and it works again...  I used a number 10 wire to tie the polyphaser to the neutral which is bonded to the conduit that goes underground to the Alascom site.  This should give us a good ground for the polyphaser.

The blades on the wind generator were damaged in 140 mile per hour winds this winter. The bolts holding the 1 1/2 pipe to the building let go and the generator dropped down low enough that the blades hit the roof of the building.   We drilled the pipe and fed two 5/8 inch all thread bolts through the building.  We used unistrut on both the inside and the outside of the building.  The building will have to tip over before the generator has a mounting problem.

Contacted Billy AL7FQ and raised the 449.80 TX to 4.7 KC deviation , he gave me a good signal report.  I made two autopatches with it and it decoded just fine.  Turned down the main channel tone (ID) will have to turn it down a bit more as it is still too loud.

Battery voltage 13.5 volts Solar panels putting out around 2 amps into the system.  The battery charger system from the TV building still working ok.  ( no moose got it over the winter).  Tried the CB19 and got a reading of 13.4 volts on the CW.  All of the heater controls seem to be working just fine.

Benny