Temporary UHF Antenna
After the wind blew down my antenna support tree I had to do something. I quickly constructed this Bazooka antenna tuned to my favorite UHF repeater’s frequency. it will have to do for now.
My Antenna Support is Down
For the past three years, the mesquite tree in my front yard has been serving admirable as a support for my VHF/UHF antenna. It has not only supported the Diamond X50 vertical at a decent height, It has camouflaged it extremely well (I painted the antenna the same color as the tree trunk).
We had a huge windstorm last night and it blew the tree over. Tomorrow (Monday) I’ll call a tree removal service and then have a new tree put in. It will be a few years before it can support an antenna however.
I live in an HOA with antenna restrictions (meaning ‘no antennas’) so I’ll have to figure out a solution.
VHF/UHF Purgatory
Well the TM-D710a is back from Kenwood. They found nothing wrong.
My analysis:
Before shipping it off to Kenwood, I tried operating with two different antenna systems – separate antennas and feedlines – and the problem occurred on both.
The power supply is an Astron RS-20 which also powers my TS-590. If the problem was in the power supply then I’d have seen it while operating the 590.
That leaves only one possibility: the power cable between the supply and the radio. We’ll see what happens over the next few days.