/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1461117
2 meter repeater station. 100 watts.

Fucking hell I boomered the pic again. Whatever

1. Insulate and have a quiet comfy getaway
2. Use a high quality digital camera to record a photograph every hour to make a sweet time lapse video

>>1461117
Where do the guywires go to?

>>1461470
I was thinking the same.

I'd be more inclined to clean it all up and get some site rental $.

lease it to yr local ilec looking for wireless

>>1461117

you sitting under high voltage transmission lines?

Rent it (cheaply) to your local radio club for a club repeater.

> not setting up a DIY repeating numbers station
> not having them all sum up to one thousand four hundred and eighty eight.

>>1461117
Looks very comfy, please post more pics.

Why not add a RONJA node? Especially if you have line of sight to your home it can be a nice way to establish a fast point to point link.

Add a KiwiSDR and join the sdr.hu network. It does require an internet connection. See if you can get someone on another mountain top to join this net, optionally via a link (optical or radio) from your node.

Add a lightening receiver node
http://en.blitzortung.org/cover_your_area.php

Add a weather station.

Build a passive radar, a mountain top is an excellent site for that.

>>1461503
>>1461470
That's free standing so the wires you see are antennas.

Frequency agile HF station that prints SSTV Goatse on random frequencies

>>1461597
Get 40 cbs and cb antennas.

Wire it up and run. Lol when the fcc and cops show up.

Piss off everyone in a 100 mile radius

>>1461678
Forgot. Rick Astley on repeat on all 40 channels

>>1461678
>Lol when the fcc
Good fucking luck getting any enforcement from them. They might, MIGHT, send an angry letter.

>>1461648
>antennas
A dozen? All floating in the air?

>>1462126
Barker Williamson or some other center fed. Usually HF radio.
Now just get a larger tower and shelter.
It's nice to get away from civilization for a while.

>>1461117
>radio shack
Triggered. Burn it down.

>>1462174
Why are those boards placed over the dome antennas?

>>1461684
Good. Fuck those faggots i wanna talk. Linears illegal is horse shit.

>muh 4 watts

>>1462407
Those are steel Ice shields.
Keeps those 80lb plus ice bombs from taking chunks out of the fiberglass covers. That tower goes up another 150ft and there are even more dishes up there.

>>1461117
Start a local wisp to underserved communities

OP here,
Sorry for abandoning my thread. I got sent off to help with the hurricane broadcast. Those are a lot of good ideas I never thought of. I'll take more pics when i get back.
Btw those are guy lines from a large TV broadcast tower near by. NPR and nbc broadcast from it (whom I work for) but it is unmanned.

>>1463472
How large? Those wires are yuge

>>1463549
1,800 ft. It host nbc, npr, fbi, and what I think is an abandoned ham repeater. My tower is probably 200ft?

>>1463977
Climb to the top and get a pic

>>1463999
Even better, add a web cam to feed into SSTV.

>>1463472
>I'll take more pics when i get back.
Got the pictures now?

>>1467590
Inside is bare. I forgot the keys anyway. The main tower building in the pic has a ton of empty racks I can use. There is also a lot of c band stuff up there and though about having a personal nbc down link for random live feeds.

>>1467590
Old equipment that lays dormant

Still not totally sure what im going to do with it, but i am looking into some low power fm stuff if the station will allow it.

>>1467944
I love the camera monitoring the lights on that equipment.

>>1467961
I know right?
My buddy used to run a small-scale CATV operation and on one of the high channels he put a camera pointing at the Cable/RF signal strength test equipment.

>>1467954
Look up NBFM.
Easy to do and it's legal at low power.

>>1467939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hULJu2mcU6s

>>1461503
>clean it all up and get some site rental $
This. If the tower's there, and you've got power available, there's $$$ to be had.

If you've got good network available, there's even more $$$. You'll need at least commercial cable to even consider selling bandwidth though.

>>1462531
Couldn't pay me enough.

>>1467961
Tower lighting panel. FAA gets on your ass real quick when the lights go out.

>>1461117
>Ham stuff
This. Get with a club, if you're willing to donate tower space and power, they'd probably be more than happy to put equipment up and maintain it.

>>1467939
>pics
Thanks! Excellent stuff.

>>1468135
>Tower lighting panel. FAA gets on your ass real quick when the lights go out.
Isn't it better to monitor current and voltage characteristics to see if one light source is about to blow? Tricks like that are used to monitor magnetrons so that you can replace them before they blow.

BTW how tall is the tower?

My father used to let me run through the main switchboard for my whole country when he was doing a late shift and couldn't keep me entertained enough.

I am surprised I didnt fuck the whole place up.

>>1470089
My tower is about 200. The stations is 1800. There is another 150 footer off to the side that I climbed and put a camera on. Ran up cat6 and everything. I tried to ping in on my laptop.. and got nothing. Camera was fried. Moral of the story is check the camera before the climb.

>>1470229
>My tower is about 200
In that case you could install a KiwiSDR with a long antenna that would emphasise the lower parts of the HF band, probably well into LF. Might need traps to reject MW broadcasting stations swamping the ADC though.

>>1470229
Zipline from the top of the 1800 foot tower to the 200 foot tower

>>1470229
I feel vertigo just looking at that damn thing

>>1470691
An 1800 foot tower would be impressive indeed. I suspect that rather is the terrain altitude.

>>1461117
Any new updates?

>>1471149
The cage you see on top is 60 feet. We have to remove it. I think we'll have to use a helicopter.

>>1472328
I've just been busy. Going up tomorrow to look at the roof, pull cat cable, and maybe climb. Pics if so.

>>1467944
What are those 4 racks at the right? I am getting some 70's vibe here. More pics would be nice.

>>1472562
>Going up tomorrow to look at the roof, pull cat cable, and maybe climb. Pics if so.
I am looking forward to this. Truly awesome stuff there.

>>1461117
high gain directional wifi antennas/repeaters

>>1467975
This is literally how almost every old school cable op did it.
I remember Comcast before it was Comcast would have channel that would spike with modems block syncing on upstream. They connected SLM, set it to spectrum on that channel and actually broadcasted a feed of the camera pointed at the meter.

>>1467944
>old comms equipment with a jury rigger cctv camera to monitor it

muh dick

>>1470229
>camera was fried

was it POE?

>>1473502
It was a nostalgia post. I disassembled it right after pic was taken. Note the mismatched tiles where it used to be. I'm amazed at the antiques these stations keep around .

>>1473506
Yeah. Dont worry, I tested it.

Climb pic

>>1472828
Yikes. Sorry for phone posting. I didn't know how bad that pic was. That's a station I worked at during the hurricane. Here is the tower shop. Largely untouched with notes and equipment from the golden era of broadcast. It's comfy to say the least

>>1472828
Used old pots cable to fish a rope through to main electrical room for future cables.

>>1473641
Got free range of the warehouse. Like I said, these networks throw nothing away.

>>1473642

>>1473644
Yeah, didn't do a lot today. Pretty lazy in fact. Found a large dipole up top with a fat coax attached. I actually dont like climbing that much, but pic is showing another tower of ours and a huge c band dish we might rebuild. More tower shenanigans after I actually do something.

>>1473646

>>1473621
You should rent this out to the next Bond movie. All lairs need a comms station and this ticks all boxes.

>>1473636
>comfy to say the least
I must agree. It even comes with an assistant!

>>1473621
So do you get to keep all the stuff that is there or is the company that had it before you taking it all out?

>>1473621
So do you get to keep all the stuff that is there or is the company that had it before you taking it all out?

>>1473644
Nice view btw

any new pics?