Dunedin visitors

On October 15th and 16th, some DXers from Dunedin visited for a spot of DX.

Ian Wells and Phil Garden stayed the first night and were joined by Jon Woods and David Miller the second night.

Reception conditions were pretty average. So saying, the guys enjoyed the relatively quiet band conditions and heard quite a few US stations on MW.

Ian and Phil were roped in to helping put the North American beverage back up. The far end is now supported on 4m galv poles rather than bushes so hopefully it will be less prone to breaking.

6M antenna now up

Thanks to a helping hand from Ken McVie ZL4NR, there is now a 6M antenna at Waianakarua. It is the YU7EF 5 element antenna I built for use in Greta Street and unable to erect in Swift St (current home location) so using some old pipe, poly rope and muscle power, it now sits above the cabin.