Post date: Jan 03, 2012 4:9:53 PM
We will be moving house at the end of January!
We are only moving a few miles from the Village of Meliden to Prestatyn. I will actually have a room designated by me as the 'Shack' but by the XYL as the 'guest room'! As we are not expecting permanent guests I hope to be a lot more active.
There are lots of jobs to do, the first will be to get 2 m and 70 cms aerials up closely followed by a HF aerial. The 2 m will be an old mobile whip I have had for some years that worked well with 2.5 Watts. The 70 cms is likely to be a homebrew ground-plane.
HF wise I will struggle to get the inverted L in the small space and a vertical is almost inevitable and I have yet to put the SRC X80 to use (I doubt it would survive the current winds) but I have have some ideas to strengthen it.
The desks for the Shack are on hold due to increased refurbishment costs but I have my trusty, small, PC desk I can use for a short time - the second hand shops will see me very soon!
So hopefully I will be on the air regularly and able to get really stuck into:
HF operating
CW
Local chatter (if it still exists!)
PIC programming
Homebrew receiver
I will have to check this post in 2013 to see if I got there!
GUD DX 2012
Martyn