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 16, 2020
This weekend was the USA Coach Ham Fest and Rod Run. There was another more established hot rod show at the Quaker Steak and Lube restaurant down the road so there were only 2 hot rods from members there. This event took place when the cancelled SPARCfest would've been. It was a beautiful day and a…
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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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