July 24
Finally getting back to Ham Radio things. I have the 2 meter J-pole up and the cabling is running across the lawn. The next chore is to run the final Heliax from the shack area to the garage wall, install the ground bus and the, install the arrestors, dig the trench, and install the final section of permanent transmission line. Not much-should get that done before Christmas.
All kidding aside, it looks like I should have that done before the end of August as I need to bring the HexBeam down to fix a couple of things I have noticed…it is facing SE when the rotator is pointing north, the last segment of line isn’t working well and is not properly coiled between the mast and the antenna. THe biggie however is the upper guys are not set properly and in a high wind will force the mast to rotate and the new slack will probably bring the mast down.
So in the next few days I will need to work on those problems. At the same time this happpening, I need to play with the SGC coupler and see if that part of the experiment is going to work…that needs to be done before I close the trench. It starts to get complicated
73 de ND2E