I Ordered a CrankIR

I ordered a CrankIR today.  I ordered the full 80M version even though I’ll probably never operate 80M with it.

My main motivation for the CrankIR is day trips up into northern Arizona.  My Sweet Lady Wife loves to get out of the PHoenix heat in the summer.  In the fall she loves to get up into the pines and see the fall colors.  I figure that I can haul and antenna, a battery, and the TS-590 up north, operate or a few hours, and meet her needs as well.

I have a second motivation (scheming here).  I live in an HOA with antenna restrictions. But I can have a flagpole!  I have the spot picked out for the ‘flagpole’.  As a test I’ll set up the CrankIR on that spot and see how it performs.  Mostly I want to make sure that when I operate I don’t make the TV go crazy (or my neighbors’ TVs go crazy).