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Monday, 27 April 2015

Cobwebb 2!

After work for a morning, the re-build of the cobwebb antenna is finished.




here a detail of the fastening of the diagonal rods. At the center there are two alluminium tubes and inside that are threaded the tomato rods...



Performance:
The first impression is that the performances are not exteme, not more than a dipole. However I connected the USA and New Zeland (this one with 55)

Sunday, 19 April 2015

Cobewebb:down!

the cobwebb (10-12-15-17-20 metri) is finished... the most boring part was join the upwinds to the mast , but at the end I put it up.



After few days, It was snowed and it was a disaster. The PVC tubes didn't endure the weight and the antenna is falling

So disheartened , but not won , I decided to do it again ; browsing a bit ' in shops in " do it yourself" , in the end I opted to buy the bamboo canes, used as tomato supports. These canes are very thin, 1,80 mt long and covered by a thin plastic film.

Here the antenna during rebuild