Wednesday, 11 November 2020

New mast arrives

 



After a few years of pushing up my antennas on two scaffold poles, I decided it was time to get a mast to make setting up easier - so an MM0CUG trailer mast was bought during the summer.  It's got a manual winch to take the mast to vertical and an electric winch for going up.  I spent some time sorting out a big storage box on the front, this contains my Honda generator, battery for the winch, mains cable and feeder.


                                      

That's Melody cat sat on the trailer!!                   First time out, the mast is vertical, honest!!                                               


I also changed my car at the same time.  After contemplating various cars that would also be suitable for contesting, Helen spotted that the Peugeot 3008 has a fold-flat front passenger seat.  So I sit in the back seat, the rig/transverters go on the front, with the logging laptop on a little table in front of me, the second laptop for KST on the other back seat and the amplifier in the boot