For the EME system I am using massive rods to guy the system. Due to vibrations this becomes loose all the time.
Changed this temporarily into rope wires now. Will order 4 iron guy wires.
Jan 092011
Jan 012011
A few weeks ago I had to remove the dipole for 80 and 160m because the neighbor had to clean the canals around the property. After a few weeks of snow and cold weather it was a nice day today so I decided to start the new year good en put the dipole back in service.
Also started cutting some branches that are coming to close at the EME array.
Dec 222010
I installed two of the four beverage antennas. This time I used glass fiber poles instead of wooden (bamboo) poles. The glass fiber poles are used in the the army where they where used to support camougflage nets.
Dec 212010
I boxed the end transformers for the beverage antenna’s.
The transformers are from DX-Engineering. There can be water in the original box. I also saw at one transformer loose ends because of pressure on the bolts when they are installed en removed at the end of the season.
Dec 212010
Bought a 2.5 kW generator.