[450] Lazy monday project

[Vinnie Grosso]

Dave,

It's really awesome, how does it perform?
How many feet above ground does it turn out to be?

Vinnie


On 4/30/2012 3:49 PM, David McKenzie wrote:
> I put the HF 5-bander back up on the 20' backyard tower today. The
> first try I had it almost to the top and had to bring it all the way
> back down upside down, so the second time I got a little help from Dr.
> Prusik and a little rope. Two bowline knots, one to the tower and one
> to the antenna, and the tail from the antenna side in a prusik
> friction knot along the rope so that I could slide the knot up the
> rope and keep the antenna in place. Once it was high enough from the
> yard ladder I moved to a ladder on the deck to life it the final few
> feet onto the mast. Some pictures at the link below.
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't load up like it used to, but the dips are
> still in roughly the same places so I'm hoping I can just use the
> tuner to get a better match and still have reasonable performance.
> We'll see.
>
> https://plus.google.com/photos/105751626186862099306/albums/5737281529756600817?authkey=CMmB8fiHmuuMag
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