Aurora 2024-11-04

 Beautiful aurora tonight.

Antenna mast broken.

On Monday January 16, the antenna mast in which I have a double discone antenna suddenly broke. I was out taking the rubbish to the bin when I heard a strange noise, and I saw what happened. The next day I dismantled the mast and antenna. The mast was repairable, I took the angle grinder and cut off the damaged part of the section about 50 - 60 cm. Drilled some new holes and it was usable again, just a little shorter. The Discone antenna was in bad shape so I bought a new antenna. Assembled everything and up with new antenna on Wednesday January 25th. I took some photos of the event with my cell phone.

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Antenna mast broken.

Repaired mast and new antenna up in the air.
Moonraker Scanking wideband vertical 25 - 2000 MHz.

Thursday 7/10

1623  UNID  at 2251 UTC, Van Halen - Jump, SINPO 25222

1638  R Bluebird  at 2254 UTC, Dutch-mx, SINPO 35333

4870  Mystery 21  at 2259 UTC, ID at 2302 UTC, SINPO 35233

Monday 27/9

1638  R Bluebird  at 2153 UTC, Dutch-mx, polka, SINPO 35333

Wednesday 10/2

 1638  UNID  at 2336 UTC, Dutch-mx, SINPO 35323

Monday 8/2

 3920  R Piepzender  at 1720 UTC, ID, SINPO 25222

Saturday 7/2

 3920  R Piepzender  at 0117 UTC, Metallico, Guns & Roses, ID at 0122, SINPO 35333