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.

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    10 days ago

    UPDATE: The radio is a half homebuilt wooden box w lots of leads. It was powered, had speakers attached. There was another harness that had been cut. Its been unplugged and packed.

    The antena tho … we got issues.

    First, I’ve not verified that its not powered. Might need to crawl an attic. Trace some wire.

    Second, this thing is a construct. Three poles w glass insulated wire strung between. One pole bolts to the house right where the power comes in. If the tree lost a branch and snagged the wire, and that bracket failed, it could take out their power.

    I have some precarious work to do this summer.