One of my neighbours asked me yesterday to remove one of the wires of the inverted-V. He had to cut some trees that were hanging over his garden. Luckely he also removed a branch that was in the way of my inverted-V. He was also very kind about the wire hanging in the trees again after he was ready. The trees are actually on the property of another neighbour, asking him he agreed it was no problem at all. So I have official permission now ;-).
After a lot of cutting/sawing I rebuild the inverted-V and was able to actually hang the end 3 meters above the old hanging point. Of course the apex is still at 12m. Very happy with the renewed inverted-V I hoped for some nice contacts.
But then....I heard my neighbour starting a large chainsaw. Not shure what he was going to do I decided to see what was happening. He was cutting another tree, oh no....as far as I could see it was the tree that holds the end of the inverted-V. Oh my, I took a run to notify my neighbour before the tree would fell...
....wow, so lucky it was a tree just 2 meters further away....
Actually it was my second choice tree but it was just too far away to attach the wire. Lucky me a chose another one.
But wait, the story is not over. Jaap PA0O notified me that E6AM from Niue in the Pacific had been worked on 30m by him. So I just though I give it a try...
I could just barely see/hear their FT8 streams. But some magic happened and I was able to decode my report... Niue is my 276th DXCC worked.
3 comments:
Good morning Bas, very nice to read that your neighbour is in agreement with the wire antenna. Also very nice catch of E6AM as well.
73,
Mike
VE9KK
Hello Mike, tnx for the comment. It certainly is great to have willing neighbours. I agree my antennas and tower are not really great looking for those that have nothing with our hobby. Still it is mysterious to them though, many do not know what I really do. It is also difficult to explain to my neighbours. When I tell them I make contacts worldwide they look at me with glassy eyes and find it amazing. 73, Bas
A bad neighbour can ruin your life, so it's good that you have a nice guy next door. Makes all the difference. And yes, I guess there's nothing at all attractive to non-hams about a great big tower and yagi LOL.
Take care, Tom.
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