{"id":71,"date":"2021-10-07T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T21:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carba.net\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2021-10-07T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T22:07:30","slug":"dragoon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/?page_id=71","title":{"rendered":"Dragoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dragoon is currently CARBA’s latest site. It was placed on the air on October 13, 2006. The site overlooks Texas Canyon along I-10 between Benson and Willcox, AZ. The construction and installation of the site took place over a period of about 6 months. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Construction began in W7HSG’s workshop with help from K7RML.<\/b><\/td>\nThe 440 radio is a MSF-5000. It is shown being interfaced to an AS-1 squelch card.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The link radios are a pair of Mitreks interfaced to the SRC-200 controller via an AS-1 board mounted in the metal box.<\/b><\/td>\nMeanwhile, the tower crew: N7JZT, WA7PIQ, K7LHR and KB7GNX began the antenna installation.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The 440 antenna is in a great location on top of the tower.<\/b><\/td>\nThere were some up’s and down’s.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Following the antenna installation, the monsoons struck with a vengance, washing out the road to the site. Meanwhile, the radio waited, hermetically sealed, in N7CK’s garage.<\/b><\/td>\nFinally, Friday the 13th arrived and the rack was loaded on the truck for it’s trip to the site.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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After a sucessful trip up the hill the rack was unloaded, …<\/b><\/td>\n… unwrapped and moved into the building by KA7RTY and N6DGT.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dragoon is currently CARBA’s latest site. It was placed on the air on October 13, 2006. The site overlooks Texas Canyon along I-10 between Benson and Willcox, AZ. The construction and installation of the site took place over a period of about 6 months. Construction began in W7HSG’s workshop with help from K7RML. The 440 … Continue reading Dragoon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/248"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carba.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}