This summer sporadic E season I want to be qrv on 70 Mhz. Therefore I bought an Icom IC-7300.
I have no antenna yet for the 70 MHz band and have to make a decision if I want a dual bander or a monobander.
The 6 element six meter antenna will move to tower 4 in the field and will become part of the stack of the 2 SteppIR antennas.
I removed my old home brew Stack Switch from tower 6 and mounted it at the bottom of tower 4 to switch all my 40m antennas.
In tower 6 I mounted a new Stack Switch from MicroHAM.
When I planned the 4 rotary HF towers in a square I had the idea that I would like to try to build a four squaere for 160m with the towers as radiator.
The towers are to short but with the capacitive head from the Yagi’s on top it should work fine.
I first tested an empty tower. Then I connected a coil at the bottom end tuned the tower to 1825 MHz very fast and easy. I also tuned the towers with an antenna at the top in the same way. Finaly I have tuned all the four towers. Now I know that I can realise this project.
To be continued.
On Sunday 22 September we lifted the 14 element C31XR on tower 6. The crew on the ground where: Jan PA0VAJ, Nap NA1NG, Thomas PA1M, and Peter PA4O. The crane I hired came from Drieborg.