Pictures from recent amature radio tower antanna repairs at HCA.

Our big beam antenna, which allows us to basically talk all the way around the globe, appearently took a direct lightning strike and fried the balun up on the antanna so we got the new parts and then had to lower the tower and antenna down to replace the balun.

This picture show our 4 antennas on the roof. The big beam antenna is easy to spot but there is also a folded dipole, a G5RV wire, and a 2 meter/70 cm UHF/VHF just below the beam.


Assembling the crew.Getting ready to lower the tower onto the ladder to replace the balun.The culprit! Quite fried. Yikes!!Implementing the lightning arrestor box. Nice work Jack KA4OTB.

Before.After. Nice.Checking out the successful work on the antennas.

Many thanks to all who assisted in the project.

• HCA Maintenance Crew - Thanks Guys!!
• Williamson County ARES Members - Jack Cox (KA4OTB), Dave Matthews (KI4PSR), Hilton Dean (W4GHD ), Randy Paulson ( )
• HCA Amature Radio Crew Members - Rick Froggat (KI4RQV), David Gatewood (N2DAG), and myself, Keith Walker (K1KRW)
• Also thanks to HCA for supporting our volunteer efforts to man this station for disaster communications with great backing.