Construction of the K4JA Station

Getting Ready

You have to have a lot of parts

Elevated guy posts
Piles of rebar for tower bases and anchors
Piles of AB-105 cross braces
Piles of AB-105 tower legs, with rotator rings in background
Piles of homebrew rotating tower rings
Piles of turnbuckles
Partially assembled AB-105 tower sections
K9GY, W9ZRX, and W4JVN stand proud of their assembled tower pile
With over 40 acres to mow, Paul needed one of these
Shop/garage where some RF switching is and parts are stored

Before the towers go up

You have to bury a lot of concrete
Another view of the elevated guy posts
The rotating guy rings ready to be installed
The homebrew tower rotator musted be placed
Inside view of homebrew tower rotator
Another view of rotator
Close-up of drive
The tower base bolts on to the rotator

Time to erect the towers!

The 10M tower ready to go up
40M tower ready to go
Raising the bottom 90' or so
Time is money...hurry Paul!
Putting the upper 60-80' on
Almost need a taller crane
Left just a few feet
Almost there!
The mult tower is topped

The 10-20M towers are done

Let's put the big aluminum up!

The 48' boom 20M yagis ready to go up
Putting the 15M antennas up
The 10M and 20M (background) antennas are up
The multiplier antennas being installed
Finishing off the multiplier antennas
10-20M antennas up
Another view
Another view: 20M, 10M, Multiplier
The 40M 4/4 is up

10-40M towers and antennas

80M Full-size 4-Square

160M Tower 4-Square

Truckload of tower sections arrive...over 500'
Homebrew tower base insulators
All tower bases now ready for installation
Tower planted on it's concrete base
The earth screw-in anchors arrive
This thing made easy work of installing the anchors
The intersection of all the guy wires
The 1.5 miles of radial wire per tower begins!
The 4-square phasing box and dummy load go in this box
Inside view of box, without vertical feedlines

"They call this wireless?"

Here is just some of the CATV hardline that will be used
Feedlines from all towers first go to the shop (garage)
Inside view of the 15-40M hardline going to towers
L: hardline to shack, R: hardline from 15-40M towers
These hardline runs to go the house/shack
Here is the hardline entering the coax room in shack
Feedlines then go to SO2R swich and/or amplifiers

The ham shack