Two things: the first is that I failed to acknowledge Tim Duffy, K3LR, 
the head of DX Engineering, who cut us a break on the price of the new 
antenna. That pricing helped us get the antenna we now have.

The second is that my height estimate of the antenna was pretty rough, 
but I've learned that it's neither 150 ft or 200 ft: when the NWC was 
designed and built, OU didn't want to deal with FAA-mandated 
anticollision lighting. To avoid the requirement of installing and 
maintaining anticollision lighting, no part of the building can be 200 
ft or more above ground. Thus, nothing on the building, /including the 
very top of the mast on which the new antenna is mounted, /is above 190 
ft, comfortably below the 200 ft limit. That puts our antenna at about 
185-186 ft or so, which is still taller than 99.99% of all the ham 
antennas out there.

I'll be getting some instrumentation up there in the near future to 
baseline the characteristics of the new antenna, so that we can detect 
any changes in the future.

As reminders, the club call for licensed non-students is WX5NWC. The 
club call for licensed students is W5TC. Now, go get on the air!

73,

Kim Elmore N5OP
OUARC Faculty Advisor

-- 
Kim Elmore, Ph

Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, UAS, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

/“The weather is never wrong.” – Pam Wilson/