Did my antenna work for the season a couple of weeks ago. Now have a
3/3 on 15m that appears to be working quite well from reports I have been
getting. The stack isn't very high (30/60) but that hasn't kept any of my
antennas from working well before. The station now consists of 10m 5/5 at
72/41 ft, the 15m stack, 3el on 20m at 80 feet, rotating dipole on 40m at
65 feet,
the vertical array for 75m and a shunt fed tower for 160m. The next big
project is a 4th tower at 100 feet to put up a 2 or 3el 40m yagi. Then I am
DONE! Hope to get on for the IARU contest in July. 73 Ken N4UK
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> From: Rick Dougherty <NQ4I@compuserve.com>
> To: SECC <secc@contesting.com>
> Subject: [SECC] update from NQ4I
> Date: Saturday, May 06, 2000 12:11 PM
>
> Hello all SECC members...hope all of you are taking advantage of the
> excellent weather and doing the needed antenna repairs...we have lowered
> all the antennas from the 80 m big tower...yesterday we got the 80m yagi
on
> the ground..imediate inspection showed that one of the ssb/cw switching
> relay was blown to bits...not sure if it was lightning or what...one more
> realy is not switching for what ever reason...the antenna will be
refurbed
> in the coming few weeks...the 4 high 10m 5 element stacks are also on the
> ground...a few dimensional errors were found on each antenna, along with
a
> bad piece of coax...the coax to the 120 ft 10m yagi had 2.6 db of loss,
> which was about 2db
> more that it should have been...needless to say that piece of coax is in
> the trash...am making up a 3 element 20m
> yagi to go on the middle tower to give Greg the 20m op and extra
> antenna....have pieces of another 40m Telrex on the ground...will be
> needing extra to repair it...kinda early here but at the new qth will
have
> 3 over 3 stack on 40m, and need another Telrex to got with the current
> one..N4XMX I think we are ready to make a deal here on your 2 element
> Telrex...will be out of town till Wednesday nite...drop me an e-mail..ok?
>
> Will put the 4 high 10m stack back up in the mean time for some
additional
> data points of testing...the 2 element 80
> will be on the ground till late Aug or early Sept...this keeps it out of
> the storms season....a microburst and it would be a goner...anybody else
> doing antenna repairs??? am planning an antenna part soon...maybe a few
of
> you might be interested in helping out on day and we could get some of
the
> outside work done?? Its been real quiet on the reflector lately...lets
get
> the e-mails going again..de Rick nq4i
>
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