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Old 02-13-2011, 08:00 AM   #11
PhulesAu
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Texas, Mostly
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Good Morning All. Well it's up! looks like something Dr. Frankenstien built, but it seems to "hear" pretty well. I didn't have a way(duh) to make it a sloped configuration, in the yard and have it pointed in the right direction. So.... It's now a flat top, at about 25'. I drug the Kenwood and tuner out to the back yard and hooked it up. Low and behold the first station I get was on 20Mtrs from Montana. Dialed around a heard Austrailia-Japan-Venezuala-Az-Sc-Tn and FL. Gotta hit the Hardware store again to get my ground set-up. I made a choke coil of 10 turns on a 6" PVC form hope that will be good enough. Will be testing later to see If I can talk to any one! After some of the Bumps in the road, getting this up. I'm not so sure this will be a RV/campground friendly antenna. Maybe if I ran it as verticle, but then the whole issue of guying comes into play. So far none of the camp grounds we've been to are big enough to allow that, too many trees and spaces to close.
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