Spent most of the day getting the MA5B back up on the roof since the move from Allentown to Pottstown. I was graced with hearing EK6TA out of Armenia, my furthest I’ve heard yet. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to work him, but it was nice to know the antenna was at least picking it up. In addition an Italian and Irish station were also propogating to me around 5-6PM. You’ll see the ground wire on the outside station ground bus, this has since been changed out to zero gauge copper. I initially needed some form of ground for the polyphasers to discharge any built up static.
The wire routing will also need to change to separate the beam mount and inside station ground from the transmission and rotor control lines. Although so far I haven’t found any RF hot spots anywhere inside. But then again, at most I’m outputting 100 watts.
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