I visited site today along with Stuart (callsign escapes me), and Dennis M1NED. Thank you very much gentlemen. The weather was fantastic(dry) with almost unbroken views across Somerset. The only problem was that the roof area had not drained and had about 3inch's of water in it so Stuart and I ended up with very wet feet!The existing aerials were removed from the pole, new ones fitted and checked for alignment. They are mounted a wavelength from the pole which should give an almost omni directional pattern. All connectors were checked before being covered with self amalgamating tape. Once installed a call was made and the first station worked was in Abergavenny!!! Apart from that first indications are that the performance is pretty well unchanged, which is to be expected. However we now have an aerial system which should see us through the next 25+ years.
Below are a few pictures of the installation and team.
Thanks go to Mike, G8CPF (left) for arranging the key.
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