One of my passions is experimenting with antennas, wire antennas for HF to be precise. I want to be able to improvise and adapt to the situation at hand whether I’m at home, traveling on business, or hiking in the … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Antennas
Attic Crawling
… is for younger men.
Regardless, the 40M and 20M dipoles are now installed in the attic. I left a little slippage so that, hopefully, tuning of arm lengths can be done at the feed point — I sure don’t want to crawl out to the end points again. [Phew!]
All the boards for the JUMA RX-1 are complete. Next is the front and rear panel layouts, cutting round and one long rectangular hole in the aluminum, painting, creating and applying decals and then final assembly. The power supply arrived by UPS today so when all that is done, it’ll be time for a smoke test.
My fingers will be crossed!
Residence Antenna Plan
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My wife and I live in Phoenix in a 1960 city-size lot. I mention the year because city lots have shrunk in the past couple of years and our 100’x105′ property seems large by comparison. But with the sparsity of … Continue reading