Posted: 1/3/2014 12:01:31 PM EDT
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Over the new years vacation the fam went up to our rustic cabin in N GA.
Basically I have 15 acres of very steep hillside with a 1000sqft cabin on it. We got it on foreclosure for a song. Wood stove heat and a window unit. The cabin is not on the ridgeline, but I own property up and over it. So I bought 1000ft of flooded 75 ohm hardline for cheap off a guy who evicted the cable installer who was renting from him. $50! It took all but 30 feet to get to the ridgeline. I ran it this last weekend to the ridge and installed a spare G5RV I have up there. In comparisons to the OCF dipole at the cabin elevation (about a 300 ft el difference) it was amazing how signals that did not exist on the OCF were clean and clear on the G5RV at the top. So along with the moxon array on a rotator I plan to do at the primary QTH, I am now planning a similar, though less elaborate and not as tall arrangement at the remote. A single pole, with rotator, spanner-based 20m moxon, 2m horizontal and verticals for SSB and long repeater fun, and keep the G5RV for longer bands. Course this is waaay down the current project list. |