Category: Antennas
October 29, 2025
DX trip to the island on Montserrat in the Caribbean for CW WW SSB contest
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February 4, 2023
I've been thinking about a 2nd antenna since I've got a Flexradio with a lot of antenna ports and only one connected. I came across a receive only antenna called a Loop on Ground. It's like a poor man's beverage antenna as it is only 15'x15' square. Matt Roberts KK5JY has a great write up on it at…
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December 31, 2022
I did a lot of stuff with the radio club this year, I wrote a Year in Review about it on the club webpage. My big radio things this year were going to the FCG Contest Dinner at Hamcation, usually it's on the same day as the club meeting. I got to meet quite a few people I knew from on the air and…
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June 28, 2021
We had our 3-club joint field day this year at the Clearwater Fire Training Facility. We ran 3 stations plus a 6meter FT8 station. We setup 5 antennas including my hexbeam that I used to have on the roof of my old house. The hexbeam went together real easy and worked amazing. We have a triplexer so…
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April 18, 2021
Since I moved I've had my WX satellite receiver antenna on the old tripod from the hexbeam and it was kind of in the way in the garden. A club member gave me a push up pole they weren't using and I finally got the parts I needed to set it up. From the top down, 2m antenna, FlightAware ADS-B 1090MHz…
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March 14, 2021
Worked on the ground crew for install Dee's new antenna. His antenna was damaged in the same storm that damaged the club tower. He had insurance on his so he got a replacement of the same antenna but the newer model. Quite a few club members attended and the install went very smoothly.…
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January 26, 2021
Worked on the ground crew to pull up Lisa's new antenna. Had some issues with the mast and getting the rotor install but Mike worked through it and we got it up in the air.
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November 29, 2020
I used the old tripod for the hexbeam to put the QFH weather antenna up on some military camo poles. It's at about 12ft. I secured the tripod with some concrete garden blocks for now. I expected to get much cleaner images than when I had it in the attic at the old house but all I was getting was…
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November 13, 2020
I received my Zero Five 80m Ground Plane antenna today. It's a 43ft vertical with 6 10ft radials at the bottom. I've installed it on a pole 9ft up so the radials clear my fruit trees. I've been playing around with it a little and it's got great reception, I might have to do some work on the cabling…
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November 9, 2020
8 contacts into the ARRL Sweepstakes CW contest I hit my 10,000th contact ever. It was with N4ZZ, I'll send him a card. I'm still in the process of getting my old house ready as a rental so my shack is mostly still in boxes. I pulled out the bare minimum of stuff to get my Flexradio hooked up. I…
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