16-02-2013, 12:11 AM
Girlie??? In your dreams faggooooo!
Well, playing antennas today with a very pretty chicken that wasn't much help we found that the horrible SWR of 2.0 on the proven great performing Dual Yagi beams were due to very very old ROTTEN folded dipole cable tails that had gotten water at some stage and rotted the cable from inside out. The antenna system is about 12 years old so it is fairly impressive really. The beams have always worked very well but over the few recent years have died off in performance and risen in SWR so it was about time for investigation. Yes they are the 1086 specials that "devil" and myself had and also cooter too but he has taken them down and given them up. Here it is:
Well, playing antennas today with a very pretty chicken that wasn't much help we found that the horrible SWR of 2.0 on the proven great performing Dual Yagi beams were due to very very old ROTTEN folded dipole cable tails that had gotten water at some stage and rotted the cable from inside out. The antenna system is about 12 years old so it is fairly impressive really. The beams have always worked very well but over the few recent years have died off in performance and risen in SWR so it was about time for investigation. Yes they are the 1086 specials that "devil" and myself had and also cooter too but he has taken them down and given them up. Here it is:




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Should be good. Will be back in about 6 weeks or so in which we will then sort out those aluminium shitters that have rotted folded dipole tails. Chopper if you can do up new folded dipoles then they should be good as new once again!
Take care of the channel guys and keep it alive till i get back..
CIAO

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