by w5fcx | Dec 28, 2016 | Antennas, Spiderbeam
They say a picture is worth a thousand words… Over the Christmas break, we had a short but intense wind storm blow through. As can be seen here, the aluminum Spiderbeam mast did not fare well. Upon further investigation, the topmost guy line on the north side...
by w5fcx | Dec 23, 2016 | Remote Station, Software Defined Radio, The Shack
Background When I got back into amateur radio after a lengthy hiatus (45 years), things had changed – a lot. Since I originally held a General ticket back in early 1970’s we’ve seen the rise of the Internet that connects every part of our world...
by w5fcx | Dec 6, 2016 | Antennas, Spiderbeam
When I first assembled my 5-band spiderbeam antenna, I made some mistakes. Hopefully these tips will help others who decide to assemble their own Spiderbeam. After assembly, the main issue I hit was high SWRs. Here’s how I addressed it with the help of Rick...
by w5fcx | Dec 2, 2016 | Antennas, Spiderbeam
As promised in this post, here’s the parts list for the “Easy Mast” system I posted about recently. Note that several components I bought were more expensive than probably required, simply because they were readily available quickly via Amazon Prime....
by w5fcx | Nov 24, 2016 | Antennas, Spiderbeam
In this blog post, I will cover the basic process used to mount the Spiderbeam antenna onto the mast (by myself) and to raise the antenna with no assistance, other than my Easy Mast device. I like to name things to make it easy to reference them, so I’m calling...
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