Before & After

For over 30 years the stables looked about like the first image. N6AHI put his repeater up here in the '80s. I took it over when Richard passed away in Jan. 2005. Century Cable had their head-in facility for Ventura in a concrete block building with the 3 telephone poles and lots of dish, log periodic, and yagi antennas. Century has long abandonded it now, and come 10 PM or thereabouts on December 4, 2017, this is what happened to my repeater site.

NEW STUFF! gone!
One rainy day, Several years ago
 
12/18/2017 2 of 3 telephone poles burned and sheared off - will collapse sooner or later!
 
NEW STUFF! BENT OVER!
1/3/2017 Leaning tower was later stabilized with supports from building
 
12/18/2017 With cable supports burned away, heat further weakened tower, which then collapsed
 
Before After
Several years ago
 
12/18/2017 K6NE Tower collapsed onto 5' fence
 
NEW STUFF! All down!
Several years ago
 
Sunset falls on the K6NE tower ...
 
NEW STUFF! Totaled!
Several years ago
 
12/18/2017 Rack mount cabinet - Exploded View !!! (Plastic vapors exploded, blowing doors off!)
 What a mess - why did I bother sweeping the floor the day before???
 
NEW STUFF! Toasted!
Originally a KPC-9612
 
12/18/2017 Melted KPC-9612 (was node VTALAN)
 
NEW STUFF! NEW STUFF!
12/3/2017 Power supply recently installed
 
12/18/2017 Only transformer iron core remains. Note steel cabinet top panel blown open.
 
NEW STUFF! NEW STUFF!
Sheet Aluminum
 
12/18/2017 Aluminum alloys melt somewhere between 800°F and 1200°F
 
NEW STUFF! NEW STUFF!
Aluminum Duplexers
 
12/18/2017 Only copper center elements remain from 4 duplexers
 
NEW STUFF! NEW STUFF!

 
 

Hoping to rebuild, over time
 73 de K6NE

Latest Update: 1/28/2018