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SK2AU visit

Posted by on October 4, 2011 Comments Off on SK2AU visit

The local radio club SK2AU had planned a visit to SJ2W this Saturday. When they arrived I was still up in the tower but SM2XJP and SM2LIY gave them a little tour of the station. When I gotten down from the tower we took a tour around the property and we showed them the place and the future plans for the QTH. After that we drank some coffee and talked about various things. It seemed like the did enjoy the visit.

Visitors from SK2AU were, SM2XLL, SM2XJP, SM2ALV, SM2DLA, SM2RMG and SA2AIE and also Leif.

After the SK2AU guys left, SM2OKD showed up with two friends. We had just finished eating some sausages so the BBQ was still warm and SM2OKD cooked some more sausages for his friends. When they were about to leave SM2NOG showed up with SM2HWG. They had been in Sikeå lifting up two boats and SM2NOG had some cables and I-beams with him that he dropped off.

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6el for 10m in position

Posted by on October 4, 2011 Comments Off on 6el for 10m in position

SM2LIY helped me this weekend to get the 10m Yagi up in the 60m tower at 46m height. We tuned the beam on Friday and had it ready for liftoff on Saturday morning. The local club SK2AU had planned a visit to SJ2W on 11:00 on Saturday, so we thought we would have no problem to be done in time for their arrival. But things took longer time as usual, since we decided to hoist the 1/2″ hardline (donated by SM0W) up the tower as well. So when I was hooking up the beam to the coax and attaching it to the tower they guys from SK2AU arrived. But I took my time and taped the coax up every m down the tower so now we just need to fit a connect in the bottom and attach the jumper cable between the cable post and tower.

It will be very interesting to see how well this beam works and to compare it with the 6/6el stack. I doubt that it will beat the 6/6 very often, but when there are marginal conds, sporadic E and during band openings/closings it should outperform the low stack. Also it adds a 2nd direction to the station, which is always good, especially now when 10m is finally showing some life again.

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