Well we did get snow…

It happened again… SNOW… 

But it was not as bad (again) as predicted by the weather gurus…  Enough to push up the accident rate in Ottawa and as it was a “wet and heavy snow” most likely enough to ruin a couple of antennas.  I’m kinda glad that I did not get the TAK-Tenna up on the mast yet…  Seeing that I did not snug everything down in case I had to re-built it (see earlier post about this one) the wet snow might have forced me to re-build before I needed to…

Its been a quiet week so far as far as amateur radio goes… Nothing going on that affects me…  and the only plans so far for the weekend is to get the TAK-Tenna up and tested out along with a Saturday morning local ARES Meeting….

I’m still looking for a suitable packet radio for the truck… and perhaps a dual bander as well for voice…  Im thinking of moving the ft 857 into the house as a 70cm/2m/6m SSB radio now that I have the extra masting in the back yard for the TAK-Tenna it also could support the dual band beam and the 6m beam and let me experiment with that part of the hobby for a while.  Normally I don’t do ssb vhf work unless its a contest weekend…

Will the weather co-operate with my plans????

More Later

73bob

Tags: 2m ssb, 6m ssb, 70cm ssb, amateur radio, amateur radio antenna, Ottawa ARES, TAK-tenna, Yaesu FT 857