Tuesday) ... finished building the 5-band Spiderbeam kit ... needed only minor adjustment for SWR and everything went OK at first time. Now disassembled all & am going for a portable test on Sunday. I am happy with the antenna and it looks beautiful when up in the air!
(Sunday) ... a pleasure to use Spiderbeam again, in wonderful WX (see picture). Me and Paolo IK5VLO put up the antenna in about 1 hour, from my car to the top of the mast. We used an FT100D with 70W. Antenna was not so high, my mast is very thin ... a 7P8 replied at first CW call while many stations called him. We were lucky, I admit, but antenna really did its job! A TG9 gave us 57 in SSB, and many more stations from W/VE ... 73, Silvio IZ5DIY
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