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 After
moving back to my home state and living in an apartment for
over a year, the househunting has finally ended. The station
is assembled, the first antenna is up and AE5X is back on the
air. Now to have QSLs printed and take care of my delinquency
in that area.....
The antenna is an 80m dipole about 75 feet
up in these tall East Texas pines. Fed with ladder line, it
easily tunes all bands 6-80 meters and has already proved its
worth most righteously by snagging mucho Pacific-area DX on
both 40 and 80 meters this past weekend. CW, of course.
I have plans to grow the antenna farm over
the summer with the goal being to have a stronger low-angle
signal on 80 meters, my favorite DX band. One such antenna worked
very well for me in New York and I plan to make use of another
one here, which I will detail once construction is completed.
John Harper AE5X
Kingwood, Texas
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