The Old Folks Home

[MrsMistyReal]

Good morning everyone hope y'all have a fantastic day

 

[microchick]

Morning everyone.

Spent most of the evening last night trying to get an antenna up for our HAM radio. One of the most popular and easiest ways to get an antenna up is to hang it in a tree. Most of our antennas are what they call dipole antennas. Picture a T shape and you pretty much have it. We cut wire to form the top of the T then to simplify it, we attach a long length of Co-axial cable to the top wire to run to the house and the radio. The top wire is cut to a specific length to accommodate the frequency you are trying to use.

Then comes the fun part. We use our crossbow with string attached to the bolt and shoot it up over a tree and hope we get it through an area where there is a fork without hitting the tree. I don't know how many times we shoot, curse, drag the line down, rewind, reload and try again before we get a placement that if not what we want is at least close and workable..

Once we get that accomplished, we tie para-cord to the weed eater line, pull the cord up into the tree, and attach it to the end of the wire. Then we repeat the process on the other end of the 'T'. Once both ends are in place, we hoist it up so the top of the 'T' is stretched between the two trees as high in the air as we can get it. The para-cord is lashed to a concrete block, the co-axial cable is ran to the house and attached to the radio and then you pray that it works.

Frankly I find it amazing that a simple length of wire cut to a specific length can intercept radio signals from around the world. But it does

Agenda for the day. Work on Deck, do more antenna work (storm shakes down an 'arm' of the antenna and you are back to square 1) and break a brood Buff Orpington Hen. I hate to do it. She is such a freaking cute broody but under the circumstances, I don't have a choice. Due to her exposure to Marek's and the high rate of susceptibility in BO's I cannot set her on eggs. The stress of brooding would surely be her downfall and the chicks will be exposed to a high dose of infected dander from her and from the other standard sized birds.

I always feel like such a jerk when I take her eggs away from her and plop her back on the roost bar. Last night she just kept jumping down from the bar and tuk tuk tukking her way back to the nest box.

Time to break out the broody buster and hope for the best.

 

[chickadoodles]

Micro good luck with breaking your broody.

Yesterday it rained so hard the roof over the dining room sprung a leak. I put out a large bowl to catch the drips and it was half full by the time dh got home. Plus I had to keep mopping up the huge wet spot around the bowl from the splashing.
It's going to rain all week. So dh can't get up there to fix it til the rain stops.

 

[CapricornFarm]

View attachment 1489314Good morning everyone hope y'all have a fantastic day

I want some of those cheerfulness pills you have, Misty.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Micro good luck with breaking your broody.

Yesterday it rained so hard the roof over the dining room sprung a leak. I put out a large bowl to catch the drips and it was half full by the time dh got home. Plus I had to keep mopping up the huge wet spot around the bowl from the splashing.
It's going to rain all week. So dh can't get up there to fix it til the rain stops.

Maybe put a tarp over the spot on the roof.

 

[chickadoodles]

Maybe put a tarp over the spot on the roof.

Dh will fix it when it stops raining. I don't want him falling off the wet ladder in the rain.

 

[ronott1]

Hope you had plenty of rest and sweet dreams

My health app says I had 1hour and 20 minutes of rem sleep. I do not know if the dreams were good or not. I do not remember them

 

[getaclue]

Our A/C went out again last night. We thought it might be the capacitor. The last time the guy came to fix it, he put the one he had, that would get it working, but it wasn't the correct one. I went this morning, and got the correct capacitor, and Dh installed it. Nope, not it. Dh says the fan on the air handler is not working. He's calling the repairman now. Lord, I sure hope this isn't going to cost an arm, and leg.

 

[ronott1]

Morning everyone.

Spent most of the evening last night trying to get an antenna up for our HAM radio. One of the most popular and easiest ways to get an antenna up is to hang it in a tree. Most of our antennas are what they call dipole antennas. Picture a T shape and you pretty much have it. We cut wire to form the top of the T then to simplify it, we attach a long length of Co-axial cable to the top wire to run to the house and the radio. The top wire is cut to a specific length to accommodate the frequency you are trying to use.

Then comes the fun part. We use our crossbow with string attached to the bolt and shoot it up over a tree and hope we get it through an area where there is a fork without hitting the tree. I don't know how many times we shoot, curse, drag the line down, rewind, reload and try again before we get a placement that if not what we want is at least close and workable..

Once we get that accomplished, we tie para-cord to the weed eater line, pull the cord up into the tree, and attach it to the end of the wire. Then we repeat the process on the other end of the 'T'. Once both ends are in place, we hoist it up so the top of the 'T' is stretched between the two trees as high in the air as we can get it. The para-cord is lashed to a concrete block, the co-axial cable is ran to the house and attached to the radio and then you pray that it works.

Frankly I find it amazing that a simple length of wire cut to a specific length can intercept radio signals from around the world. But it does

Agenda for the day. Work on Deck, do more antenna work (storm shakes down an 'arm' of the antenna and you are back to square 1) and break a brood Buff Orpington Hen. I hate to do it. She is such a freaking cute broody but under the circumstances, I don't have a choice. Due to her exposure to Marek's and the high rate of susceptibility in BO's I cannot set her on eggs. The stress of brooding would surely be her downfall and the chicks will be exposed to a high dose of infected dander from her and from the other standard sized birds.

I always feel like such a jerk when I take her eggs away from her and plop her back on the roost bar. Last night she just kept jumping down from the bar and tuk tuk tukking her way back to the nest box.

Time to break out the broody buster and hope for the best.

We put the antennas on the roof! My dad did build an 80foot tower though. I wish I had a picture of it!

Your way sounds very fun!

 

[ronott1]

Our A/C went out again last night. We thought it might be the capacitor. The last time the guy came to fix it, he put the one he had, that would get it working, but it wasn't the correct one. I went this morning, and got the correct capacitor, and Dh installed it. Nope, not it. Dh says the fan on the air handler is not working. He's calling the repairman now. Lord, I sure hope this isn't going to cost an arm, and leg.

I am sorry about that!

The Central air at my place went out years ago. We cool with two window fans. Replacing is very expensive