We purchased a second home in
Harpswell, Maine in 2008.
I started building a new station.
As I enjoy woodworking as well as Ham Radio, using my woodworking skills
I turned a small bedroom into my combination ham shack, small workshop, and office.
BUT,
A change in plans...
We decided in 2019 that having two houses was a PITN. We decided
to "rightsize" to one house. We decided that mid-coast
Maine (i.e. Harpswell, etc.) was our target location. We started looking.
Then COVID-19 hit. This reduced the available inventory of
available houses. After over a year of fruitless searching, we
decided to sell this wonderful place, with the hope that we would find a
new place soon. So now the effort is to dismantle the antennas!
July 2021:
House sold
Phase — 1 2/440 FM (completed)
> 2M and 70CM FM: with an FT-8800 (now a
TM-V71A -- the 8800 is in the Audi)
> Comet GP-9N at peak
of roof (28')
Phase 2 — Low HF (completed)
> Added a "new to me" TS450SAT
> Built a homebrew 80-40-20 fan dipole,
center at 18' (too low!)
> Converted the
shack closet to a small workshop
> January 2013: replaced TS450SAT with TS590S
Phase 3 — Add 40M/15M Vertical / Add 6M
/ Improve HF (completed)
> June 2013: added a InnovAntenna 3 element 50MHz LFA Yagi to "play around" with 6M,
on an 18' mast off the northern corner of the house
> April 2014: added a homebrew
40/15M vertical with 4 elevated radials
> July 2014: move the 6M 3-el LFA to a rotatable mast 28' above the roof
> October 2014: convert 80/40/20 Fan Dipole to 80/20/10 Fan Dipole
> March 2016: convert 80/20/10 Fan Dipole to 80/30/20/10 Fan Dipole on
34' mast
+ Replaced 2/440 Comet with Diamond X50NA at top of mast
+ (Sept 2017) Add loading coils to 80M portion, making it 80M / 160M
> Sept 2017: add
traps and "tail" to add 160 to 80M portion of fan dipole
Phase
4 — Dismantle the antennas
> 22 May 2021:
Dismantle the 6M Yagi. BAD timing -- just as summer eSkip was
starting.
> 18 June 2021:
Dismantle 40m/15m vertical.
> 5 July
2021: Dismantle Mast holding 160/80/30/20/10/fan dipole plus 2/44 stick.
Antennas at end of Phase 3:
|
160M/80M//30/20M/10M |
Quintuple Fan Dipole at
10M height. |
|
17M/12M |
Whatever works better
at the time! |
|
40M/15M |
Homebrew elevated 40M 1/4 lambda vertical with 4 elevated (@ 10') radials |
|
6M |
InnovAntenna 3 element 50MHz LFA @ 28' |
|
2M / 70CM FM |
Diamond X50NA at 34' |
|