Im Excited!

[Anmer]

Thanks Cam.

It's like watching a live birth 

[BigRed]

Well I'm even more excited!!!   

Version four of antenna upgrade has been completed and will be returned to the top of roof in the next 48hours!!

We have completely redone the pole, the Mooonraker is now now sitting on-top of the fifteen foot pole with pre-amp and the BS1105 is siting out from the pole about four feet below with ..... a Elad pre-amp!!

It looks good.... I promise pics will be posted.

Previously both antennas were on a tea-piece at the very top of the pole, SBS-plotter was showing serious signal definency for both antenna, it seemed in theory the Moonraker donut-effect was impeding upon the BS1105. The change and angle / direction of antenna with pre-amp on the BS1005 should provide serious improvement.

The overall height for me once everything is up is approximately 35 / 40 feet.

Stay tuned!!   

CAM of Townsville.

[BigRed]

Well here they are....

The Moonraker is performing extremely well no real surprises with the SBS plot either. Current hieght is it for me. Im about 40feet all up.

The BSC1105 is about three feet below the Moonraker. My previous setup had them both on the same horizontal beam and I was sure this was causing signal loss for the 1105... any comments / thoughts? 

So on the second pic its lower... performance with a bran new Elad power amp..... lacking in the extreme. I think its height and position of the antenna. 

Sadly this setup will have to do for awhile before I can get up there and change things around. But I am putting back up the old flag poll for the discone and also an orginal SBS1 antenna... experiemntal purposes only !!! 



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[BigRed]

Setup with Moonraker and BSC1105 latest configuration - as per message above.

CAM

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[Anmer]

All you need now is aircraft 

[Truetrack]

You have a nice setup now.

In the pics it looks like the downleading coax is passed straight downwards.
As a precaution may I suggest that you include a loop before attaching to the PreAmp.
Reason that the shear weight of the cable cannot pull it out of plug by the time.
Even though carefully fixed to the mast in sufficient number I would not trust them
giving a bit away in varying temperatures.

regards

[BigRed]

Hi Klaus,

Cheers mate! Thanks for the feedback, the next time Im up there I will loop the coax accordingly. Im also going to reposition the 1105.

CAM