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A few years ago I bought a second hand MonstIR yagi made by SteppIR.  Its 3 elements on 40M (and about 72 feet wide) and had 4 elelments on 20M -10M (and is 30 feet long).  It weights 120Kg and unfortunately was too heavy for my tower.

Fast forward a few years and I bought a One Man Tower (OMT) which was solid enough to support the MonstIR, a bit of digging and 5 cubic metres of concrete later the tower was up.

With the addition of some 6mm stainless steel cable, a new Noble braked winch, a BIGRAK rotator ad come controll cables, the MonsIT was in the air.

 

Party in theCrowe Plaza lobby at 1:30am Sunday

  

Nice Amplifier

but too big to bring home

  

Mad River Dx Loud Shirt Party

 MC – Paul Gentry

 

Tim Duffy K3LR opens CTU

  

CTU is open (and its 7am)

had a big sleep in a nice bed, breakfast at 7am and now is the time to improve my contesting knowledge

  

Contest University tomorrow

  

Prop Pitch ready to travel to K7NV

 Only 22kg! Last time the TSA guys were very interested – I have put an explanation of the contents on the outside this time!

 

Next Saturday’s entertainment

  

Dayton 2015

Only 3 more sleeps until I will be leaving VK for Dayton, OH for the 60th Dayton Hamvention.  Thanks to the international date line I will arrive in Dallas  at about 1.30pm (only 30 minutes after I leave Sydney)  Lets hope I get an upgrade so I can get some sleep on the way. At present I will be in the back to the top deck. At least it will be quiet up there compared to the Fokker 50’s i normally fly in!