@harvestmalletus I hope it works out! I'm a frequent user of Noctua fans. I expect it'll be nice and quiet, at least.

@harvestmalletus the amount of airflow in each area of the case is going to change significantly with a reversed fan. This could lead to hotspots you didn't have before. I'd go with the original direction on the assumption that the original direction worked well enough.

@G8RKE I wouldn't do it in any logbooks used for awards, but as long as it doesn't become an excuse for using excess power, I don't see any problem with it.

@VE3RWJ @va3db if all you can measure is SWR, you can at least confirm that the SWR is extremely high outside of the antenna's design frequency. If it's low everywhere, it's unlikely that it's being radiated. Radiation resistance is the thing that changes a lot with frequency in most antenna designs, so when it's the major part of the "return loss" (low SWR), it'll swing up and down a huge amount. If it doesn't swing, it's probably losses to something else.

@DJ5CW I built a similar filter using spare toroids as transformers, and your circuit seems to have ended up with better insertion loss. I say: well done!

@kelvin0mql I'd look at RONJA (http://ronja.twibright.com/) for some ideas for the optics. If you're trying to bounce off a lossy surface, you'd probably need bigger apertures.

@N3VEM building and flying kites can be a lot of fun.

@ejo60 ah yeah the 991 also works