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Below are some
details of the antenna system used since Nov 2004. Perhaps this should read
used in winter 2004, as was a temporary antenna till February of that year,
when the field used was sown. The farmer has been exceptionally generous is
letting me use the ploughed field for the aerial. A former CBer himself, he
is interested as well as pretty much happy to allow this.
Left:
Aerial shot of my home village, looking West. The white lines indicate my 2
beverages, with the thick line being the long feeder.
The river incidentally is the River A y r. Click to enlarge. On the enlarged
version you can see where the permanent feeder since May 2005 beverage runs.
The feeder in green is much longer, but the wire is permanent through the dense
woodlands.
There is nothing drawn to scale here by the way.
Right: Part
of my radio shack, with the main rx the NRD 515, as well as a Racal RA17. behind
is a Grundig Sat 3400, real good for FM, as well as an old valve TRIO 9R59 DS,
not used much, but in working order. I may tidy the place and take another,
then again maybe not!!
A
shot of my shack in 2005, after the addition of an NRD 545.
The image on the right includes a sample of the coax I use for the permanent
200m beverage.
Left:
For a reason I don't know this and the other images of the NW bev, came out
quite poor. This was taken when I had the wire supported only about a foot
above the ground. It does look much better now, on the 5 foot sticks.
Click 
to view a 360 deg panorama view of the area around the 200m mark.
Click
to view a 360 deg panorama view of the area around the 100m mark.
Right: The bev on 5 ft sticks, taken from the feed point
looking towards almost NW.
Left:
Looking directly down the bev, and the thing is quite straight, although
I will have to fix that "shoogly" 3rd stick!!
Right: Looking towards the woods and the 400m mark. The
angle of the camera makes it look off line but it is not really.
