New wire for New QTH

Well, I learned something very important yesterday, if you want your neighbors to be happy about your antenna installation, just make sure you put it up on Thanksgiving weekend, loan out your air cannon for your neighbors to hang their Christmas light balls up in their trees and they will be very happy, even possibly forget what you were doing because they are so entertained with shooting lines up into the trees. :)

I put up a 132 foot dipole fed with balanced 450 ohm feedline yesterday, not without some struggling, I tried and tried to get it to pop up over this one branch, yet it is still stuck under it. Isn't there such a thing as a wire saw for cutting wood? If I could loop a rope over the branch and tie a wire saw into the middle section of the rope or paracord, then maybe I could cut that branch without ever leaving the ground, I am going to look for one of those.

The antenna works like a dream on 80m and 40m but not so fantastic on 20 and 10m, so I think I will follow this one up with a shorter dipole for the higher frequencies.

Also, I got a lot of my station set up yesterday, got the computer going, and a few of my certificates hung up, so that is pretty cool.

Still celebrating the arrival of the new cycle!