Yesterday, I had discovered that my dad had accidentally nicked one of my coax feeds with his lawn mower so he and I worked to get the cable up and out of where it was to fix it. I then discovered, much to my chagrin, that I had mixed up my 40 meter dipole and my 2 meter J-pole connections ... and all this time I was trying to load my J-pole on 40 meters. Oops. For now, my dad ran a jumper over to his antenna switch from my shack so I am using his G5RV in the evenings. It works quite well.
I am planning on buying a EFHW antenna from myantennas.com very soon. I've already won approval from my parents to mount a 10' piece of aluminum conduit on my shed as a mount for the transformer end of the antenna and will run the antenna to one of three trees on our property. I hope then I will be able to get on the air full-time again. I'm really looking forward to it.
For now, I am just mostly listening these days but with what looks to be a promising start to solar cycle 25, I am looking forward for the bands to be "alive" once again. I am unable to work digital modes currently but will be fixing that soon, hopefully.
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