Our first beam antenna!
Here's the Yagi clamped to a six
foot ladder for some tuning checks behind the wood shop.
This is the M-2 Antennas
6M-3SS Model
Gamma Match
That's the short parallel bar below the driven element
Everything was adjustable but the manual gave the ideal settigs
My handy idea to set the elements and tuning for the FT8 portion of the 50Mhz ham band ended up not working well. The tuning was inconsistent on the ladder. Fooled around with it for several days moving the gamma match and element lengths and it just would not tune where where I wanted it.
Talked to the mfr and they said to set it per the chart and leave it alone so we just put it up on the garage roof where it was intended.
30FT AGL connected to the Kenwood TS480 antenna 1 output
Talked to the mfr and they said
to set it per the chart and leave it alone so we just put it up on the
garage roof where it was intended.
30FT AGL connected to the Kenwood TS480 antenna 1 output
Antenna mounted on garage roof and permanently
mounted pointing South.
Note DTV antenna below also pointing south toward Seattle forty
miles away
Small dish antenna on left is part of an experiment to build a relay
to a station on the mountain peak to our north.
One nice 2400 mile contact with a México station.
We were running 75 watts
Was lucky enough to be given this odd 40'chunk of
1/2" hard-line by the cell tower contractor working on the
new tower up the hill from us.
A project to go on "the 2022 do list",
Plan: Swap the existing coax and switch it to the hard-line due to its
extremely low loss, better performance
Control head and USB Sound card on desk in basement
RRC interface in shadows at left
Kenwood TS-480 Remote Rig with amplifier and tuner
Location in garage under bench.