OE5TXF : December 2021 : Antennas in snow

The "antenna farm" at OE5TXF consists of a number of vertical poles and wire dipoles

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Aluminium Spidermast up at about 10m supporting the centre of a low 160m dipole   12m Spiderpole with a vertical dipole for 17m and supporting the centre of a 40m dipole.   18m Spiderpole supporting a vertical dipole for 30m.
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18m Spiderpole supporting a vertical dipole for 10m and a horizontal dipole for 12m.   A collapsable aluminium Spidermast supports the centre of a low 160m dipole.   An 18m spiderpole with 30m vertical dipole.

Antennas at OE5TXF:

160m : low 160m wire dipole: average height less than 4m. Not good for DX!

80m : horizontal 80m wire dipole with centre at 8m high, sharing a coax with a 20m dipole

40m : horizontal 40m wire dipole 6m high at centre, sharing a coax with a 17m vertical dipole

30m : vertical 30m wire dipole on Spiderpole.

20m : horizontal 20m wire dipole with centre at 8m high, sharing coax with 80m dipole

17m : vertical 17m wire dipole, sharing a coax with the horizontal 40m dipole

15m : force feeding the low 40m dipole on 15m - never a good idea!

12m : horizontal 12m wire dipole at 8m high, sharing a coax with the 10m dipole

10m : vertical 10m wire dipole, sharing a coax with the 12m dipole

6m : in the summer the 30m vertical dipole was replaced by a vertical wire dipole for 6m. Not ideal for 6m DXing!