Month: August 2024
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Keep Your Meddling Little Hands Off My Antenna!!
I got my new antenna up last week and I’ve been amazed by one resident who seems to think he has the right to keep poking at it every time he walks past. Well, NO! Hopefully he will get the message
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New Antenna Testing Results Are Looking Good
In the early hours of this morning I decided to do some proper testing of the new antenna. For the first half hour I made several SSB/Phone contacts all around Euroland without any difficulties on 20 and 40 meters including a QSO ito mid France which was not possible on my old antenna so the…
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A Working Solution To Not Tuning 40 Meters
Even though I now have the Yaesu FTdx101MP radio on my desk which is probably one of the best radios in the world right now the built in Antenna Tuner will only tune an SWR of 3:1 or better. On all bands apart from 40 meters my SWR was below 2:1 so making the fine…
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A New And Improved Random Wire Antenna
A few weeks my father popped over and we started the work to erect my new and upgraded random wire end fed antenna. I was hoping to increase the antenna length from 29 feet long to a much nicer 56 feet long and at the same time take it up to around 7 meter high…
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Hit By Another Solar Storm!
I switched the radio on last night to discover all the HF bands were completely closed. Even tuning down to the FT8 frequencies produced absolutely nothing. The reason was yet another massive solar storm hitting us giving a K value up in the region of 8. Hence Facebook being full of arura photographs from all…
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A New Addition In The Shack And I’m Excited!
For a long time I’ve been looking at this radio and dreaming one day of owning one. Last Saturday I sat and watched the latest video released by ML&S all about the amazing Yaesu FTdx101MP and they centred the video on a used radio they had in the store. After watching the video I did…