432 EME

 

Motivated by the JW/SM2BYA expedition for the ARRL EME CONTEST 2003 , I decided to put together the necessary equipment to get QRV as a "little pistol" for this contest.

 

Assembling tha antenna:

A small 4 times 21el from TONNA were put together , with the option to get 8 antennas in the near future.

The mount:

I decided to used a salvaged tripod originaly used on my 3m solid dish.

 

trepied.jpg (295385 bytes)        fondation.jpg (284964 bytes)                   reperagetiges.jpg (114026 bytes)      trepied en place.jpg (215989 bytes)                   

the tripod             concrete foundation            rep�rage tiges   tripod in place   

                        (will be strenghtened later)       filet�es                                    

 

            soudure plaque.jpg (145356 bytes)                         cage.jpg (53271 bytes)     H_en_cours.jpg (43971 bytes)

           welding a steel plate                Mount is OK      H frame ready