Bought a 40m to 10m G5RV on Ebay for $50, should be a bit better to hang in the yard than my dodgy wires at the moment.

Living in suburbia doesn’t give you a huge number of options for antennas on HF. When I was at my parents earlier in the week I collected a bunch of wire dipoles that I used to have hanging in the sky.

I’ve hung up what was a 15m dipole in a little V behind the garage, hopefully nobody will lose a head when walking past 🙂 Running about 40m of RG58 just to go about 10 feet, I better find a smaller length soon.

Can’t hear a lot, definitely can’t TX, SWR is waaay over the top according to the 857D.

I look after a couple of servers for a friend who I met earlier this year, as a token of thanks for helping out a new Yaesu 857D arrived today. Thanks Michael 🙂

Unfortunately as we drove up the street tonight the power went out 🙁 So I opened the box and had a look as much as I good via candle light, looks like a nice bit of gear.

Spent the rest of the night sitting in the backyard listening to the fires on KI using the scanner I bought a month or so back. Sounds like it might be a pretty horrible situation, lots of extra fire crews and other emergency services crews are on the way over.