On the 26th June, which was probably the hottest day of the year to date, a working party from the East Yorkshire Repeater Group visited our site at Weedley to install the 5GHz wireless antenna on the mast...



The easy part is lowering the mast on the electrically operating winch, the hard work is luffing tower to gain access to the aerials at the top - the whole process taking about an hour. This provides an opportunity to do some of the less technical tasks, systemic weed killer applied liberally to the remaining vegetation!



Why does the autofocus concentrate on the leaf in the foreground and not the intended subject?

A couple of jubilee clips and some outdoor Cat 6 cable and the whole lot has to go up again...



Where have all the helpers gone ? To do the more technical work of configuring and testing the wireless link on site in preparation for installing the other end with the Internet...



The East Yorkshire Repeater Group welcomes all willing volunteers, especially on maintenance days when there are numerous tasks: Applying grease to the tower's cables (which invariably ends up on one's best t-shirt), antennas to check, fences to paint, etc. However this does provide a rare change to learn a little more about how repeaters actually work!