10 August, 2015

Antenna inspection by drone.

A few windy days have "disturbed" one of my antennas. It's a windom antenna up about 12 meters in a little forest I have next to my house. It's quite tricky to see by eye, and my DJI Phantom 2 Vision needed some exercise, so I decided to have a go. It went well. 

The antenna centre looks okay

The far end seems okay too.


Here I clearly have a problem. Now to figure out how to fix it - using the drone. 

11 July, 2015

Active as IS0/LA5EKA on Sardinia

I will be active from Sardinia between the 8th and the 22nd of July 2015. Equipment is my KX3 and a dipole fed with TV twin lead, up five meters above the house I'm staying in. Location is Valledoria on the north west coast.


The antenna, 2 x 14.5 meters fed with TV twin-lead and hung up in a five meter fishing pole taped to the TV-antenna. 


The shack. KX3, Begali Traveller Light and a Piglet for connecting to the electronic log on my iPad. The days of paper logs are long gone in my realm.