Today has been a very long day. In 94+ degree heat we managed to get four of our antennas for Field Day up. A 160 Windom, an 80 Windom, a 40 M dipole and a fan dipole.
Tomorrow we will work on getting our 3 element beam up, a 40 M vertical and two 6M beams [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Antenna systems’
June 26, 2009
Field Day 2009
May 20, 2009
IRLP 4865 back.
It appears my antenna issue must be water getting into the coax line. I hope to get access to an antenna soon. Only solution is when bad weather approaches the node will go into off-line mode. So if you try to connect into 4865 and it says offline, I’m either asleep for the evening or [...]
May 17, 2009
IRLP #4865 Down (again)
The antenna for node #4865 is showing high SWR’s again after 7 to 8 hours of rain. I can only assume I may have water getting into the coax. So… Sorry folks.
