[Lowfer] WM, SIW mid-day

[Cliff Sojourner]

Yeah the rust makes a nice diode :)

I remember a friend put a 2m magmount on the old tin roof of his cabin. Ha.

On November 16, 2018 1:26:05 PM PST, wa3tts at verizon.net wrote:
>
>Mike & Garry: NW and SW EWEs in-phase with West peak antenna pattern
>view of watering hole this afternoon
>https://www.dropbox.com/s/zplmilg8dz5vt6h/capt00003.jpg?dl=0
>
>No signal peak background noise around -74...
>SIW was a dB or 2 stronger earlier in the day on NW EWE....
>I'mot sure who let Nessie out of the RF loche in the 297~299 window,
>might be local origin...
>Replaced my NW and SE antenna transformers and in doing so found a
>rusty lock washer under the stainless
>bolt used for the antenna connection about a week ago....should have
>checked it with a magnet at the time....seems like my
>received harmonic interfering signal level is down a bit now, any small
>improvement was worth the maintenance effort...
>
>73 Mike wa3tts
>
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