First casualty of the wind this afternoon - my longwire antenna is now about half as long.
I've ordered some decent kevlar wire to repair it. I should get a roof ladder too so I can fix my beams.
The 5 element 144 MHz beam has been totally trashed by birds landing on it.
@dtl
What wire did you go for? I have to fix mine... AGAIN! I'm looking at kevlar wire for the radiating elements and dyneema for the support. Unfortunately it has to support 7.4m of ladder line too because all I can fit in is a G7FEK.
@jamesb @dtl
What about Racal stuff that can be found in rallies?
I have a spool with me just in case right now.
@M0KHR That Racal stuff was good. I used to work just down the road from one of their places, near MOD Ashchurch and there was always useful things in the skip. @dtl
@jamesb @M0KHR I've got a spool of that somewhere. I'll probably find it when the new wire arrives.