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 interference: I’m using a Raspberry Pi 4 as the collector and I have loaded OpenWebSDR on it so I tuned it to the 137.9MHz frequency that the satellites use and found that I was receiving a broadcast station on that frequency. I had purchased an FM radio block filter but…

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 to get the transmit to work a little better but I see I got to Japan with FT8 at +14db. Hearing lots of Japan stations on 17m. Here’s some pics: I “Called before you dig” and got a clear from all 5 utilities with buried stuff in my area. I think…