Last Updated on September 25, 2011 by g6nhu Some time ago I bought a second hand but never assembled Cushcraft MA5B and yesterday I collected it with the plan to get the aerial all built and ready to go. It’s a couple of years old so it comes from the time before MFJ acquired Cushcraft so I hope that it […]
Month: September 2011
Band conditions – wallop, what happened there?
Last Updated on December 30, 2015 by g6nhu Today is Saturday. I woke up and got up around 08:00, at 08:15 I was on the wireless giving away a few points in the CQWW RTTY contest. I only operated S&P and in 45 minutes I’d worked 25 stations starting off on 40m and switching to […]
Days 246 to 255
Last Updated on September 23, 2011 by g6nhu To get me back up to date, I’m going to do a couple of big updates and because each one will cover around ten days it’s going to be a log extract in the form of a list as I reckon that’s the easiest way to do […]
Assembling a section of Alimast
Last Updated on September 22, 2011 by g6nhu In my last update, the final image shows a single section of Alimast standing on the concrete. I bought four sections of Alimast from Aerial-Parts of Colchester, each being 2.5m long for a total of 10m (33ft). These four sections were delivered with one being fully assembled […]
The next stage of the new mast – Mounting the pivot pins in concrete
Last Updated on September 18, 2011 by g6nhu My new Alimast from Aerial-Parts of Colchester tilts over using a pivot system and so the ground anchor consists of two pivot pins mounted in the ground. These two pins have been linked together for ease of securing in concrete and to add a little extra resistance […]
Building a Nixie Clock
Last Updated on June 16, 2020 by g6nhu A week or so I was inspired by a post on a forum I frequent to build a nixie clock. If you don’t know what a nixie tube is, the best way for me to explain it is to reproduce the first few sentences from Wikipedia. A […]
Days 243, 244 and 245 – Late night data
Last Updated on September 17, 2011 by g6nhu These days were while I was still on holiday and as tends to happen when I’m not at work, I become slightly nocturnal. On one day in particular I went to bed, really couldn’t sleep and ended up getting up, coming back into the shack and playing […]
To tune, or not to tune? Would you use an ATU?
Last Updated on September 13, 2011 by g6nhu Today I’ve been measuring the SWR of my 40m delta loop on different bands and frequencies using a borrowed MFJ-269 analyser. 40m 7.000 – 1.5:1 7.100 – 1.4:1 7.200 – 1.5:1 20m 14.000 – 1.6:1 14.100 – 1.7:1 14.200 – 1.8:1 14.300 – 1.9:1 14.350 – 1.9:1 […]
Aerial work and digging a hole for my new Alimast
Last Updated on September 10, 2011 by g6nhu It’s taken a few weeks of planning but today a small working party consisting of myself, Colin (M1EAK), Yan (M0YNK), Chris (M6GSD) and Kevin (M0GWE) descended on my house to take down the mast with my VHF beam and move the 10m 5/8 wave to the standoffs […]
Days 240, 241 and 242
Last Updated on September 9, 2011 by g6nhu I’ve become a bit lapse in updating the blog with QSO details and so I’m a few days behind here – I’ll try and catch up over the weekend. But just because I’m not writing the blog doesn’t mean I’m not using the radio. On day #240 […]
