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Shortly after moving to the Black Hole in mid-November 2008 I started to decide what I wanted my antenna farm to look like after it grew up.  Since that was more than a ten minute job, I put up a single 43 foot vertical with 32 sixty foot radials to get a basic multi-band capability going.

Good thing I did that since one week it started to snow and hardly stopped until March.  Once the snow stopped I got a beam and a two element phased array for 30 and 40 meters up.                                   After >>

In May 2009 I put up a full sized, heavy duty, quarter wave vertical for 80 meters and converted it to a switched vertical on 80 meters and Inverted L on 160 meters.  In the early fall I got a set of four direction switched beverage receive antennas up.  I also added a three element SteppIR on a roof tower on my garage (Beam 1).

In June 2010 I added a 80 foot tower and SteppIR DB-18E antenna (beam 2) up to provide gain antennas for both radios for SO2R contesting.

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Bill Axelrod 7 July 2011