I posted back in January to say that the 17m element on my Hexbeam had snapped in the storms and was causing problems. It took over three months before everything came together to allow me to get the mast down and repair it but I managed it last weekend, just in time for the CQ […]
Tag: Hexbeam
Broken hexbeam – Worst aerial damage I’ve had
My new Hexbeam is broken … and fixed
Replacing my hexbeam with… another hexbeam!
I’ve broken my Hexbeam – Again!
20m QRSS warmup
I’ve had this screenshot sitting on my desktop for a while because I think it’s quite interesting. It shows my 20m QRSS signal from when I switched the transmitter on, for a period of nearly four hours. You can see how it takes almost an hour to warm up and calibrate itself to the correct […]
Fixing the Hexbeam … again
I posted about three weeks ago about my Hexbeam failing again and you can read that by scrolling down the page a little or by clicking here. I spoke to the manufacturer directly after and he sent me a set of his new custom made PTFE spacers. There was a contest the following weekend so […]
15m + 400w + snow/rain + Hexbeam = *sigh*
It’s the EA PSK63 contest. I had a decent run yesterday and this morning I was up nice and early to carry on my 15m single band entry. It snowed overnight, it’s raining now and very damp outside. After twenty minutes I was working a run of Japanese stations and my IMD meter started beeping […]
Replacing my Cushcraft MA-5B with a G3TXQ Broadband Hexbeam
I’ve mentioned a couple of times recently that I’d ordered a replacement aerial and it was delivered on Friday. I bought a G3TXQ designed Broadband Hexbeam, from Ant, MW0JXE. Ant manufactures these on demand and so therefore there’s a waiting list, it took around six weeks from order to delivery but it was well worth […]
More problems with my Cushcraft MA-5B
There I was, at quarter past eight this morning calling CQ in the April Fools Day contest on 20m 😉 when I noticed that my SWR had gone from 1.1:1 to 3.5:1. Something was clearly wrong so I stopped calling straight away and started to investigate. The first thing I did was to tune around […]