K9CT Contest Station Tour from the crane man basket!

We are about 80 feet up in a two man basket.

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Science & Technology

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• k9ct
• antennas
• contest station

[vk2sd]

WOW - Nice station. I am interested on thoughts regarding the performance of the stacked array mono-band Yagis over the stacked stepper DB42 antennas. Nice to have a view of your station here on Utube.

Good DX - Regards Jaye VK2SD 

[hamradiok9ct]

@vk2sd Jaye...so far I have not tried using the DB42s stacked. I can but have not. I have checked out the performance differences between the stacked arrays and the DB42s. It is about what you would expect. The DB42 give me a versatile tool for multipliers and SO2R setup.

[forabetterlife1]

Nice antenna farm. Still nice to know you can still put up towers without much hassles from zoneing restrictions. Charlie N9SOR

[hamradiok9ct]

@forabetterlife1 Charlie...this is a result of two years of work to be able to get this done. It took K1VR 6 months of writing to get the building permit.

[poodlesfly]

Is that wind noise or thunder? Beautiful set-up. We're not going to miss hearing you on the air, are we? C U next 'test! 73/88 de N7RQ

[hamradiok9ct]

@poodlesfly It was wind noise across the microphone as I turned. I will look forward to our contest qso.

[G0IFI]

Wow.

[hamradiok9ct]

@Dreadlk Actually very low losses. The feedline is 1 5/8" Heliax. Loss is less than 0.4 db to the farthest antenna. Phasing lines are 1/2" Heliax.

[Dreadlk]

I just wonder if all this Antenna goodness in db gain is not zeroed out by the huge cable losses? Even with the best Jacketed cable you will have huge losses in Rx and Tx Power over those huge runs from the shack.

[jimccolorado]

Awesome

[cherwhit]

Drooling....AA4YL

[IZ8PPH]

Wow!