[K3VOA] 40 Meter Beam

[Ken Claerbout]

I've been meaning to share these with the group.  It's work on the 3 element 40 meter beam.   Here I had a gin pole at the top of a 45 foot tower (half built), and used that to raise the beam off the ground to check the SWR.  It worked well, the rope connected to my tractor, through a pulley at tower base.  There are two tag-lines, used to keep the antenna away from the tower as I was pulling it up and the other to level it off when it got to the top.

Here is a video of it going up.  The tower in the background is 85'.  One of these weekends I'll get the guys over to hoist it to the top.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4hgncpv5vplkc02/20200201_113315.mp4?dl=0

Speaking of 40 meters, my ¼ watt WSPR transmitter was heard in Hawaii this morning, at our sunrise.  Pretty amazing.


73
Ken K4ZW
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