This afternoon I managed to put my newly acquired G5RV up. It’s on a wooden pole at 8ft in the centre and about 6 feet at the ends. Just fits inside the backyard 🙂
It’s not ideal, will have to get it up permanently somehow in a better position but I can hear tons more on it than the previous setup already.
15mins after I put it up I had my first contact on 20m with Ken J07CVU in Sendai, Northern Japan. Looks like I might have fun!
Bought a 40m to 10m G5RV on Ebay for $50, should be a bit better to hang in the yard than my dodgy wires at the moment.
Recently I wrote about the monitoring services from mon.itor.us that I use.
As I shifted the last of my sites from Dreamhost to a VPS I was wondering about some of the values I was seeing. For example here’s a fairly normal day in the life of a wordpress site hosted at Dreamhost.
So it’s my birthday today, yay!
One of my brothers had novel way of addressing his present to me, neat!
Living in suburbia doesn’t give you a huge number of options for antennas on HF. When I was at my parents earlier in the week I collected a bunch of wire dipoles that I used to have hanging in the sky.
I’ve hung up what was a 15m dipole in a little V behind the garage, hopefully nobody will lose a head when walking past 🙂 Running about 40m of RG58 just to go about 10 feet, I better find a smaller length soon.
Can’t hear a lot, definitely can’t TX, SWR is waaay over the top according to the 857D.