PA0O ham radio

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ARRL CW is the mother of all Contests.. Back in 1970 ties we where  PA0GN  ,handwritten paper logs no internet no PC.'s After contest with koffie en koek, dub check at the home of  Geert PA0GIN  Corrie and dog Sheila. Those days the cw  and phone took both 2 weekends 2 x 48 hour CW . Must be the only active HF contester's of this group left with Enno PF5X But  PI4GN is active in UHF SHF contests. Last weekend during our PACC storm depression Ciara came along. This weekend we had another storm visiting called Dennis. Friday I attempted to set up a better 40m dipole but i could not get it tuned like it did last weekend. Now i know why, the fold back wires came too close to each other and eliminated induction. But Dennis ended antenna work. Anyway i was okay for 160 80 20 15  and the 80 dipole on 40 that worked a bit my result despite not having a good 40m antenna  Oklahoma was the only spotted not worked multi. Strange  4...

Antenna's ready    Steppir   and new linear load rotary 40m dipole  14m  wide very light using glasfiber fishing rod's and foldback wire linear load design thanks Thomas PA1M Using the  Hidaka Denki  driving element holder.   replaced the trapped  multi band 40 20 15 10m elements with 2x 7m fishing poles that fits upon the 30mm center stubs filling the gap with tape also protecting the thin fiber rods against the stiff aluminium tubes. This radiator is part of the 4ele VS2440  former produced by  Hidaka Denky I can switch back to the original multi band the weight is very low about 1kg for an almost full size 40m rotating dipole not bad i think, it could even survive CIARA but i did not want to risk that. The shunt wire is 2x 12.5 m foldeded back in one loop and about 1m wire  hanging down a the top, that this wire is moving in the wind does only slightly affect the tuning , the stray capacity does not change m...