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How it started....

In the beginning in our former QTH in Heerjansdam (2995 BE) we started with a long wire for HF (home-made) and a dual band antenna from Diamond for 2 meter and 70 cm. Very soon the 13 element beam came up for 144 MHz and also one for 70 cm, a 21 element, also from Tonna and several other antennas for different bands. Where to put them: all together in one single tower or more steel or aluminum pipes in the garden at the side of the house. I decided to put one steel pipe with the Yaesu rotor at the far side of the house, nearby the shack with one on top to reach a height of 30 ft. (10 meters) above ground level. On top I put the small vertical for VHF and in the middle the U-shaped aluminum tube for both the beams. On that same tube I placed some small beams vertically for the same bands, 2 meter and 70 cm, keeping them at least a half wavelength from each other. At the bottom part of the steel pipe I hung the HF beam for 10 (originally 11meters/27 MHz), just so that this one was almost 6 feet above the rooftop. However before I mounted the whole installation at the wall I took down the vertical and replaced that on a separate aluminum tube a few feet away. This worked very well……..until the famous January storm of 2007. Anneke, my wife, called me on the way home that the storm was very strong and that the bottom pipe began to lean down to the roof side and it wouldn’t take long before he completely broke. When I came home, that already happened. After a careful inspection of the situation, in the dark with a flashlight, I saw that the connection between the two pipes had collapsed and the upper pipe was on the roof and the antennas…….oh that was a mess of aluminum tubes en wire. The two beams for 2 and 70 were scrap and the HF beam was fallen down with the boom in the roof isolation making a hole of approx. 3 inches deep and 5 inches wide. I had something to do the next day. The coming weeks we had to do without some of the antennas and forget DX-ing. Because of the bad weather and time of the year I only made plans for the new antennas, considering the new toy in the shack, the Yaesu FT-2000 which was coming in a few weeks. We also want a solid antenna for this rig and several types of HF beams were in consideration. Like the beams from GB antennas, and from Fritzel the 2 or 3 element beams and Hy-Gain. We saw almost everything from 1 to 5 elements for 1 or more bands. We looked at the prices which varied from cheap to expensive. In April the new Yaesu set arrived and now I had to make a decision. By this time I choose for the Fritzel FB-33 for HF 10-15-20 meter and later on a 4 element for 50 MHz/6 meters from GB Antennas &Towers. A couple of days later I bought a 24 feet (8 meter) antenna tower with a manual hand winch to raise and lower it. Top height is about 21 ft.  Inside the rotor (Yaesu G-2800DXC) I put a steel pipe of 15 ft (5 meter) on which I hang the new antennas. In top a small dual band for 2 meter and 70cm horizontal. This worked satisfactory and still is on our new QTH in Heinenoord as you can see on the photos.

For 80 and 40 meters I use a military antenna of 30 ft. as hanging point for the open dipole of 2 x 14 meter with a, so called chicken ladder, open wire line of 300 Ohm of about 11 meters long (2 x 42ft with 33 ft open line). I use this antenna as an inverted V. The G5RV which I earlier used didn’t do the job for me with the MFJ-tuner. The antennas we now use are the open dipole long wire for 80 and 40, the FB-33 for 10-15-20 meter and a small version of the G5RV for 10 to 40 meter, for 144-146 MHz we have a Big-Wheel Omni-directional and an 11 Element beam. For 430-440 MHz we use a 9 Element GB antenna. The vertical stick is the Diamond X-7000 tri-bander (144-430-1296 MHz).

If you have any questions about my antennas….please do not hesitate to e-mail me @ callsign@amsat.org (pa9rd@amsat.org)

 

 

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Oh ja, er hangt ergens ook nog een draadje gespannen voor 80 en 40 mtr.....

een G5RV, een dipool van 2x 15,60 mtr ofzo!  Goed kijken!

 

 

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