Finally after 48hour continuous heavy rain and wind that ended midnight Sunday/Monday we had a relative nice day with some periods that it did not rain .. But had to wait to dark before I had time to put the mini 3-band VHF antenna in my mast that was a quick job. Cable was already available in the mast so now at 22m a.g. with good cable I was very curious how this small antenna would perform.
First tests receiving showed some good FM signals at 70.425MHz of locals.
Then 2m , the SWR was low! receiving a dutch beacon quite good much stronger then on my vertical.
2m seemed alright too
Then 6m low SWR but a bit tuned high SWR went up in the DX part a bit but reasonable 1:1.5
That should be easy to correct with some extension of the radiator
Heard LX0SIX but deep in the noise.
Then tried to receive one of the G- beacons I heard weak GB3BAA at 70.016 at some peak
could trim my old 50MHz now on 70MHz BF900 preamp on that one a real signal.
So conclusion project is a success!
Now have to get the old transverter running 5W out so far.
First tests receiving showed some good FM signals at 70.425MHz of locals.
Then 2m , the SWR was low! receiving a dutch beacon quite good much stronger then on my vertical.
2m seemed alright too
Then 6m low SWR but a bit tuned high SWR went up in the DX part a bit but reasonable 1:1.5
That should be easy to correct with some extension of the radiator
Heard LX0SIX but deep in the noise.
Then tried to receive one of the G- beacons I heard weak GB3BAA at 70.016 at some peak
could trim my old 50MHz now on 70MHz BF900 preamp on that one a real signal.
So conclusion project is a success!
Now have to get the old transverter running 5W out so far.
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