July 9th, 2019 - New 2 Meter Antenna
Wind damaged one end of a military surplus fiberglass mast sections I was using. That failure caused the rest of the sections to fall down and broke the tail of the PVC "bow" supporting the N9TAX "slim jim".
The N9TAX "Slim Jim" didn't suffer any damage and look good after being outside for a least 2 winters. I 'll keep it for an emergency rapid deployment spare 2M antenna.
I replaced the fiberglass mast with an eight foot section of TV antenna mast I had pulled off the house after cable TV was installed.
Assembly and installation of the Firestick Antenna was straight forward. My only problem area was applying the water seal "wonder" tape around the PL-259 coax connector followed by over wrapping with electrical tape. The L brackett provided doesn't leave much room.
A quick radio and antenna check with the local repeater some 16-17 miles SE of my QTH resulted in a solid contact at the 10 Watt power setting of the Icom 2300H I am using as a base station.
73 de AB1OP Ralph
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