Traveling in Blanquillo AND MORE
  • Home
  • Trips
    • 2022 >
      • 2022 Tennessee
      • 2022 Blue Ridge Parkway
    • 2021
    • 2020 >
      • 2020 Sierras
    • 2019 >
      • 2019 Crater Lake
      • 2019 Westside Regional Park
    • 2018 >
      • 2018 So.California
      • 2018 Colorado-Arizona
      • 2018 Banff-Jasper
      • 2018 Osoyoos, BC
    • 2017 >
      • 2017 Olympic
      • 2017 Channel Islands
      • 2017 Eclipse
    • 2016 >
      • 2016 Glacier-Yellowstone
      • 2016 Southwest
    • 2015 >
      • 2015 Bryce-Zion
      • 2015 Lava Beds
      • 2015 Bristlecone-Yosemite
      • 2015 July first trip
    • 2014 >
      • 2014 Utah
    • 2011 >
      • Gold Beach
  • Camping Map
  • Our Escape
  • Radio and Hobbies
    • Amateur Radio Commentary >
      • AREDN
      • Antenna on mast
      • Winlink
    • Christmas LED Display
    • Scripts for Growing Classes >
      • 12- WeatherFIles
      • 11- sketch_MorseCodeDecoder.ino
      • 2e-RGB-LED
      • 2f-RGB-LED-GUI
      • 2g-RGB-LED-GUI
      • 3a-thermometer.py
      • 3b-thermometer-plus
      • 4a_DHT_simpletest.py
      • 4b_DHT_send_temperature.py
      • 4c_DHT_send_temperature_LED.py
      • 4c_DHT_send_temp.service
      • 4d_DHT_send_temp_LED_OLED.py
    • Winlink for Field Day 2020
    • VE Credentials
    • Antenna Analyzer Code
  • Collegedale Tax Prep
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Trips
    • 2022 >
      • 2022 Tennessee
      • 2022 Blue Ridge Parkway
    • 2021
    • 2020 >
      • 2020 Sierras
    • 2019 >
      • 2019 Crater Lake
      • 2019 Westside Regional Park
    • 2018 >
      • 2018 So.California
      • 2018 Colorado-Arizona
      • 2018 Banff-Jasper
      • 2018 Osoyoos, BC
    • 2017 >
      • 2017 Olympic
      • 2017 Channel Islands
      • 2017 Eclipse
    • 2016 >
      • 2016 Glacier-Yellowstone
      • 2016 Southwest
    • 2015 >
      • 2015 Bryce-Zion
      • 2015 Lava Beds
      • 2015 Bristlecone-Yosemite
      • 2015 July first trip
    • 2014 >
      • 2014 Utah
    • 2011 >
      • Gold Beach
  • Camping Map
  • Our Escape
  • Radio and Hobbies
    • Amateur Radio Commentary >
      • AREDN
      • Antenna on mast
      • Winlink
    • Christmas LED Display
    • Scripts for Growing Classes >
      • 12- WeatherFIles
      • 11- sketch_MorseCodeDecoder.ino
      • 2e-RGB-LED
      • 2f-RGB-LED-GUI
      • 2g-RGB-LED-GUI
      • 3a-thermometer.py
      • 3b-thermometer-plus
      • 4a_DHT_simpletest.py
      • 4b_DHT_send_temperature.py
      • 4c_DHT_send_temperature_LED.py
      • 4c_DHT_send_temp.service
      • 4d_DHT_send_temp_LED_OLED.py
    • Winlink for Field Day 2020
    • VE Credentials
    • Antenna Analyzer Code
  • Collegedale Tax Prep
  • Links
  • Contact

2022-03-07 Antenna on mast

When we moved to our new house in Chattanooga, I knew I had plenty of space for antennas. Back in Santa Rosa, I had put up an Off Center Fed Dipole (OCFD) for 40 meters to 6 meters.  This barely fit in my back yard and was mounted on a painter's pole about 20 feet at the center and sloping to about 10 feet at the ends.  Here, I have acres.  I decided to erect it temporarily on my Buddipole 18 foot mast mounted on the tongue of our trailer, where I have used it while traveling.  The ends are mounted on fishing poles.  I doubled the length by adding a wire to the end of the short leg, so that the total length worked for 80 meters and down.  Now, I don't see the need for 80M as I have not used it, so I mounted it on a new 32 foot fiberglass mast as the original OCFD.  One end will be attached to our garden shed, and the other will be attached to a fiberglass fishing pole as it is currently mounted.  I will guy the center mast to the house screened porch and to the ground at the back of the yard.

This will free up the trailer as the mount for my antenna, which I need to do before camping starts in May.

For 2M and 70cm, I am currently using an Ed Fong J-Pole antenna on top of the painter's pole I used in Santa Rosa about 24 feet high.  I will keep that J-Pole for use as the antenna for my Winlink Gateway, and perhaps also as an APRS digipeater/ i-Gate.  For primary 2M/70cm, I added a J-Pole above the OCFD at the top of the new mast.

Both new antennas have DXE-400 coax feeds that go from the top of the 32 foot mast to the lightning arrestors I installed on the house ground rod.  I buried the coax from the base of the mast to the porch, then on the ground to the lightning arrestors.  I used my existing RG-8X coax to feed into the house through an MFJ window feed through.  I felt I had to add the lightning arrestors as we are now in lightning country, unlike Santa Rosa where lightning was rare.  It is common here.  We had a lightning storm just this past week.

My antenna farm is growing.
Copyright © 2023 by Dornbush Web Design