[ADXA] Today

[Stan Stockton]

Today was too cold and windy to play golf (or waste oxygen as Joel would say). When I came back from ZF, only my shunt fed tower for 160 was working.  No tribander, no 40m dipole, no rotator.  I didn’t have anything for 80.   Probably none of it worked when I left in October.  I wanted to be able to get on a little and at least listen to the ZF station where W1DED is renting it for the week.  He is the guy who interviews contesters - Q5 Ham Radio.

Anyway I went up to see if I could figure anything out.  I didn’t see anything on the tribander and figured it must be a connection in my choke.  Took it down , found the problem, fixed it and put it back up.  Now I have an antenna that works on 20/15/10, fixed NE.   The rotator needs to be replaced with a Yaesu one I have here and at the same time lower the mast and hopefully just have to do the same thing on the rotatable dipole.  You can’t reach it from the top of the tower.  

If you are waiting for that new band counter to pop up, give ZF2KT a few contacts over the weekend.

73..Stan, K5GO