Greetings,  Well it is 11/DEC/2008 at my wife went to the doctor's office today to find out she is 7 1/2 weeks pregnant.  We are very excited.  My wife wants a girl.  I would like to have another boy.  I have blond hair, but if we have a girl my hair will turn white when she gets to her teenage years.  HI HI!!!   73, Stuart W8STU

Greetings, well, it is 08//DEC/2008 at 0005 HRS. UTC. and the snow has blanketed the ground once again. They always say, "Your antenna will work better if you put it up in bad weather." Well, that is true.



My friend, Joe/KB8QID came over yesterday and we put up a real nice dipole. It is called the W5GI MYSTERY ANTENNA. My other friend, Kevin/W8KDC put it together for me and he stated it was very easy to make.



Joe and I braved the cold and snowy weather and put this antenna up. Joe is very handy with a fishing pole and was able to cast a line approx., 60 feet into an 80 foot oak tree. We strung up the first leg and stretched the antenna over the yard until we got to the back yard.



The back yard oak tree is approx., 70 feet. Joe cast the fishing line up to a limb with a fork in it. We lost three sinkers on this limb due to smaller limbs growing from it. We were out of sinkers, so I thought of using PL259s. Don't laugh, it worked! HI HI. We got the other leg pulled up and secured. It just so happened the ladder line came right down to the peak of the house where the other coax come down to the side of the house and into a neatly cut hole with PVC pipe is located and into the shack.



We hooked the Mystery Antenna up to my Yaesu FT-950 and WOW what a difference from the vertical I was using. Night and day difference! I was able to tune this 80 meter through 2 meter dipole on 80/20/17/10/6/ meters with the internal turner on the FT950. Two meters did not need a turner with my Icom IC-910H. Thats right it is actually resonent on 2 meters. Joe and I played on the bands I could tune and we got great signal reports on the Mystery Antenna.



I would highly recomended this antenna if you are on a budget. Materials are easily received from a hardware store and coax from the local amateur radio store for not much money. And it works GREAT. I have placed the link to W5GI's website at the bottom of this blog so you can check out more details and instructions on the antenna. Give the Mystery Antenna a try. 73, Stuart W8STU


http://www.w5gi.com/mysteryantenna.htm