Sunday, April 7, 2013

April Showers bring May Antennas!

Finally got my LoTW account setup.  I'm going through old logs and will be adding them over the next few months as time permits.

The ham shack is moving to a different room at my place and will force me to finally finish my HF loop antenna project.  I'm currently finishing up gathering all of the antennas to build the 160M full-wave loop antenna.  This is because the G5RV will be on the far side of the house from the new ham shack location.  This project will most likely mean that my ham shack will be off the air for a short time during the month of April.  This move/project includes all of the following:

  • Moving ham desk to a different room
  • Upgrading ham desk/station ground system
  • Rerouting existing 6M, 2M and 70CM antenna coaxes
  • Building and hanging the 160M full wave horizontal loop antenna
Eventually the G5RV will come down and go back in the antenna box in the garage.  As long as this project goes smoothly I will then be working on my VHF/UHF antenna array for weak signal work.