February 06, 2006
Up Up and Away!!!
The Biggest of all the projects took place on Sunday.
Thanks to the installation skills of M3LXS and 2E0GYD my trusty Watson 50 took to the skies.
See pictures here
When asked what he thought Mark M3LXS said 'booming mate booming' :-)
Posted by mrbadger at 12:13 PM
January 17, 2006
The westflex is in place
At last I installed some good coax and straight away can hear the difference. Obviously areas I cannot see I cannot hear but those crackly distant regular stations are nice and clean now and I can do well with my 12W linear coming into Runcorn cleanly.
The next step is to pop the antenna on the chimney and get it our of the loft to see how much difference that will make.
73
Keith
2E0ISK
Posted by mrbadger at 01:25 PM
January 07, 2006
Rig Stand
Another quick project thanks to Michael from the FT-817 yahoo group. He doesn't give his callsign but I saw the way he utilised a soldering iron stand and I did the same. Just the cheap plastic stand with folding metal a few dabs of epoxy resin to hold it on in case you should want to prize is off at a later date. It makes opening the battery compartment much easier ad well as providing a great portable pop out stand.
To see pictures click here.
73
Keith 2E0ISK
Posted by mrbadger at 06:20 PM
Purchase westflex coax and re position 2m antenna
Ok so after a chat with my local friend M3LXS (Mark)its agreed with his kind offer of assistance we will get my antenna on the chimney and replace the coax which currently has a 4dB loss and is not doing me any favours.
Not sure when we will embark on this but its in the pipeline as the next big job.
Posted by mrbadger at 05:38 PM
Its the rig in a bag project
Yes totally impromptu at xmas out popped the rig in a bag project.
Pictures can be seen when you click here.
Posted by mrbadger at 02:49 PM