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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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I'm aware. Dinner before hand consists of ceviche, grilled octopus, honey chipotle pork belly, and braised brisket. German food is bland as hell. Having a nice dinner at the place where I proposed first.
FYI, the only reason I recognized those Wisconsin things is because I grew up a mile from the WI border in IL. There’s quite a few “Wisconsin” things in IL where I grew up
 
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You see under capitalism the only people who benefit from the logging are those from the sawyer and skid through the mill. Where under communism we all get to stay in shape pulling the eco friendly crosscut saws and enjoy free pine needle soup at our lunch break of 10 minutes which we take after felling 40 trees.
Pine needle soup for the MFW!!!!
 
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Yesterday, I went out today with a couple of guys from the amateur radio club to do some maintenance on a remote repeater station that's been offline since the beginning of summer. The mountain was on top of the Hodgson Range next to Lords Table Mountain which you can see in most of my photos.

I didn't start the tracker app on my phone until a bit of the way up the mountain, but this tracked bit was 1.4 km with a 288m elevation up basalt rock faces and escarpments. The yellow line I drew in was the rough route we took back down to the road. It took us approx 1.5 hours to climb up and 2.5 hours to come back down.

When we eventually found the tower site, we found the repeater tower had fallen over with a couple of the guy wires rusted through and the top antenna had been struck by lightning at some stage.

So some rigging of what was left of the guy wires and a lot of grunting and lifting to lift the tower back up and string it back in position.
A couple of new batteries for the repeater and new digital APRS modules were installed as well as a new solar charge controller.

While we were on the top of the mountain, a light shower came down followed by a stiff S-W wind that chilled us to the core just before we headed back down. Luckily the trip down dried us out and warmed us up again.

On the downward trip, we took the left-hand spur line as it had rained while we were up there, and this also meant that we didn't have to scramble back down some of the rock faces that we had to tackle on the way up.
As you can see from the rust in the old fridge, this station has been up there for about 30 years now and all of the larger gear was lifted in a helicopter back in the day.









 
Yesterday, I went out today with a couple of guys from the amateur radio club to do some maintenance on a remote repeater station that's been offline since the beginning of summer. The mountain was on top of the Hodgson Range next to Lords Table Mountain which you can see in most of my photos.

I didn't start the tracker app on my phone until a bit of the way up the mountain, but this tracked bit was 1.4 km with a 288m elevation up basalt rock faces and escarpments. The yellow line I drew in was the rough route we took back down to the road. It took us approx 1.5 hours to climb up and 2.5 hours to come back down.

When we eventually found the tower site, we found the repeater tower had fallen over with a couple of the guy wires rusted through and the top antenna had been struck by lightning at some stage.

So some rigging of what was left of the guy wires and a lot of grunting and lifting to lift the tower back up and string it back in position.
A couple of new batteries for the repeater and new digital APRS modules were installed as well as a new solar charge controller.

While we were on the top of the mountain, a light shower came down followed by a stiff S-W wind that chilled us to the core just before we headed back down. Luckily the trip down dried us out and warmed us up again.

On the downward trip, we took the left-hand spur line as it had rained while we were up there, and this also meant that we didn't have to scramble back down some of the rock faces that we had to tackle on the way up.
As you can see from the rust in the old fridge, this station has been up there for about 30 years now and all of the larger gear was lifted in a helicopter back in the day.









An amazing amount of work, To get that back on the air. No 4wd road?
Good idea disguising the unit to look like a dump pile. Just kidding. Good work. That’s what I call an active club.