Words that come back to haunt you...

Every now and again we all say something we regret…  Sometimes not in a nasty way… or in a funny way…  but it seems like the right way at the time but afterwards it seems rather Ironic…

Heres an example…

On Saturday July 21st before I left for Dale Park for the CQ WW VHF Contest I said the following:

In addition to the portable radio gear I had to find a way to get the 3 element 2m beam and the 6m delta loop (with its 6 foot boom) safely attached to the Vespa for the trip.

Note to self:  Re engineer the delta loop boom to break down to a more workable length for travelling!!!

However a short couple of hours later when my Push up masting decided to collapse bringing the 6m delta loop down quickly and when the masting finished collasping the downward momentum suddenly stopping caused the bamboo boom to snap in two places (either side of where the boom was attached to the mast…

I wanted to re work the style of the boom and gravity takes care of that for me…  Hows that for Ironic????

I tried for a quick fix on Saturday night and Sunday AM so I could get back into the contest but had no luck….  The contest was over for me….

I’m thinking of using my hamstick dipole mount that I use on 80m at times and just adding a pair of 6m hamsticks and be done with it…  For the few times I need to make 6m contacts I think that will work just fine and if I can’t work them with a dipole than I guess I just can’t work them…

Now I should ask…  Has anyone got anything good or bad to say about the idea of a 6m hamstick dipole…  I could just make a dipole out of two 54 inch lengths of copper pipe (which I have in stock) but I’m just thinking out loud at this time so…  if you have any experience or ideas…  lets hear it…

73bob

 

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