The Sounds of the Suburbs.
Well, got home tonight, and decided to do a quick scan of 80 and 40 meters as I do, got VK3LO nice and clear, discovered why, he seems to be only around the corner which would be why I’m able to pick him up quite well when he is transmitting.
So Hannah and I quickly threw up the wire dipole outside, and discovered that much to our dismay, we got the same results with the wire dipole inside (well it’s a different one, still about 10 meters per pole but up in the picture rail of our room.)
So the (electrical) sounds of the suburbs is still causing an issue.
What we really need to do is try and set up the wire dipole up a bit higher other than just throwing it up randomly in the back yard, and see if that makes any difference.
Or wait till next time we’re at mum and dads again and see what we can do there.
Or look at other antenna designs we can throw together in a cheap and easy manner, and see how they go.
All good fun.
Also saw the antenna tuner for the FT-707 on vk classifieds and by the time I’d got home the thing had sold, got to be a bit quicker.
~Ivy