2007 KØS, Strange Antenna Challenge
Satellite KØS Station
Lee Langford, KG4DZN
Farmton Florida
KG4DZN - Truck Dipole
KG4DZN - Coax Feed Point
KG4DZN - Battery Clamp to Secure Connection
KG4DZN - 2nd Battery Clamp to Secure Connection
Howdy Erik.
I am Lee Langford, KG4DZN, in Farmton Florida... Had fun today hooking up and loading up my "Extended Double Truck" antenna.... Ingredients:
- One F900 flatbed truck (destroyed by hurricane Charlie)
- One Izuzu Hombre (also rendered unusable by Charlie)
- Two jumper cable style leads 3ft long from a battery charger (another Charlie victim)
- Fed with 120ft of 9913 coax.
- One piece of broken fence board to keep the "twisted connection" out of the grass (and to keep the ants off my picnic...
- Bring to a boil with 100 Watts.
- Enjoy!
Loaded on 20, 40 and 75M.
Made one contact:
15:42 EDT May 28 to Rooney, 6Y5RP, in Jamaica. RS55
Thanks for the Challenge!
Good to know the next time the Hurricanes come I can load up the junkers!
Lee KG4DZN
Hey! If you're only going to get one contact, Jamaica Mon, is a good one! Heheh. And I love the recipe format. Great fun! Thanks for playing radio-Erik n0ew
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