I carried the pole up the hill which I previously marked and drilled. Put it in the 2 feet deep hole and pounded it in the ground another 8 inches with the sledge hammer. Finished the thing up by installing the racoon guard and snake guard from hardware cloth. This bird house is now ready for tenants. We enjoyed soup on the back porch while watching the Bluebirds claim houses. The microtrak came back amazingly. I hooked it up and tried it but was disappointed by perfromance. I still can't reach the aprs.fi server. I'm giving up on this and will go with the TT4 and a radio of some kind. Dinner was Manicotti that I picked up in Trader Joes. The Trader Joes trip was after going to Northern Tool to get welding rods to build an antenna. I also took a look at garden carts but the they were list price.