Old structure (water tower blue) that currently houses the Oshtemo link transmitter on left and new in center. Also pictured is the NWS generator that powers the Oshtemo and Hysperia link transmitters during power loss. This generator is staying. The blue stucture will be demolished when warm weather comes. The city of Kentwood has only one piece of equipment still in use in this building. We need to move our equipment sometime in March. I will contact Eric to get access to the site whenever we decide we can do this.

Eric and old structure. You can also see the outside of the boot on the new building where our coax will enter.

Remaining equipment in old stucture owned by the City of Kentwood.
Last comment 02/19/05.

The Oshtemo link transmitter. Note the legs that are currently under the equiupment cabinet must remain under the cabinet in the new building as there have been flooding issues if the water tower needs to drain.

Oshtemo radio frequency authorization. (Unclassified)

Hysperia link transmitter (in new building). The space and power for our transmitter is immediately to the right of their transmitter on the North wall. The poweroutlet shown on right is breaker block CB 11. Breaker box is on opposite wall.

Inside of boot where coax will come in. Our coax is to enter through one of two holes left from Hysperia installation that have been covered with clear RTV silicone. Also shown is the grounding panel that we may use to ground out polyphaser. Our coax from the other building will reach just inside the new building only neccesetating we purchase about 30 feet of additional cable to make it from the polyphaser to the transmitter.

Southwest corner of the new building. This shows our audio feed from the NWS office (Right, the top of the two boxes with labels) and the breaker box (left). We will need about 50 feet of a pair of wire to go around the room to get to our cabinet.

Coax feeding the buildings. Old building on left, new on right just out of frame. Our coax can be seen on left entering the old building (painted water tower blue). The Hysperia coax is the smaller of the two black.

Same as last picture, from opposite direction. Old building on left, new in center, water tower on left.

Eric and Mike.