After much research, I’ve decided what I’m going to replace the Hexbeam with. I’m aiming to put up a SteppIR UrbanBeam which will give me the same coverage as the Hexbeam with the addition of a folded dipole on 30m. At the same time, I’m going to replace all the coaxial cable with Messi & […]
Tag: aerial work
Installing a dipole for 30m
I’ve never had a decent aerial for the 30m (10 MHz) band and have struggled to work much on the band either with my old doublet or the inverted L that I’ve had up for the last couple of years. About a month ago, I realised that I could hang a single band 30m dipole […]
Time for a new aerial, I’ve replaced my doublet with an OCFD
Earlier this year I decided it was time to replace my doublet with a new wire aerial. There was nothing actually wrong with the doublet, I’ve worked plenty on it but it always galled me that I had a smarttuner connected to it which limited my transmit power. I could only run 100W SSB or […]
New aerials for VHF/UHF (2m/70cms) and 28MHz (10m)
Over the years I’ve used a few different VHF/UHF aerials here and the one I always found the best was my old Diamond X500. I bought that when I still lived at home with my parents and it moved here with me. It ran my original AX25 packet radio BBS and then MB7UIV and was only […]
Days 296, 297 and 298 – I finally worked T32C
Day #296 was the day of the aerial work although before we started tearing my aerials down, I had a quick ‘banker’ QSO just in case things didn’t go well. I worked JG1WNO, Hiro on 10m JT65 early in the morning. After all the work was done and my beam was up, my first QSO […]
