My good friend’s father passed away several years ago. We are going to clean out the garage. He ran a ham radio station. He did a LOT of awful wiring. (USA 110v systems)

I’m gonna clean it all up so there are no fires.

What can I expect? Badly wired 210v setups? Capacitors carrying deadly charge? I’m a computer nerd, and know very little about ham radio.

  • Rivalarrival
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    7 days ago

    What’s the antenna situation like? If there’s a tower of any sort, I strongly suggest you contact a local ham radio club for advice before trying to remove them.

    There’s probably a thin wire “dipole” antenna overhead somewhere that should probably be removed if it’s not being used. It’ll be a wire rope with a feedline in the middle, and the ends strung out to tall objects.

    • dbtng@eviltoast.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      6 days ago

      We might have somebody interested in the antenna. I’m going to climb up and inspect it for safety for now.