Skyblue do a fabulous selection of poles up to 10m in length - but not only that, they do loads of flags and bunting. Just the thing to dress up some antennas for the Cubs family camp! See http://www.skyblueleisure.co.uk/home.html
I had an email from Jonathan at Team Thunderbox (http://teamthunderboxactivities.blogspot.com/) discussing their 80m vertical.
The world needs more antenna experimenters!
Cheers Jonathan, let’s hook-up.
Callum.
I’m currently constructing monobanders for 6m, 2m and 70cms on a 6 meter mast using Barenco off-set rotator platforms on T and K brackets.
Today, I noticed that the 70cm is supposed to mount (to a mast) at the rear, after the reflector. However, I’m mounting the 2m and 70cm antennas half-way down their respective booms on a fibre-glass 50cm (2 inch) mast. I notice though that doing this might mean a kink in the radiation pattern of the 70cm yago in particular because the mounting hardware is quite hefty in comparison with the actual wavelength.
How big a problem will this be I wonder? I’ve gone to all the trouble of spending £30 on a fibre-glass mast only to have the U clamps fail me? Some research required me thinks.
I had a bit of a struggle finding the service manual for the FT1000MP Mark V (200W) version so I’ve uploaded it here for your pleasure!
WARNING - LARGE FILE 113 Mb file - SUGGEST YOU SAVE TO HARD DISK - DON’T JUST CLICK IT.
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