Thursday, September 22, 2022

IFL

  Doing some fall antenna work ahead of the winter weather.  After testing the 6/10/15 fans one at the top of the hill and one just up behind the house become quite apparent to me just how much better the antenna performs at the top of the hill ,   1 to 2 S units .... huge!   I currently have 6 IFL runs to the top of the hill.   The original has been there 20 years and no longer test good.   There is 2 connection  in the 500' IFL  so I am going to isolate which section is bad.   There is one IFL  that goes from the 4X1 switch that ends about 100' from the top of the hill.  Its has been protected from the weather and is probably good for future use.   There are 2 in use that test well ,  the 160m inverted L and the 15/10/6 Fan.   The other 3 terminate at the old 80m Vertical ( not in use IFL bad), then one IFL that ends to the left of the old 80m then another that terminates where the 6/10/15 is located.  I have a 80/40/20 fan just up behind the house that I would like to recreate at the top of the hill.  It will be really interesting to see if I get the same sort of improvement with it there.   Depending on when the weather closes in  am going to first get 1 or two of the existing IFLs to the top.  They are all put together in chunks so its just a matter of isolating the bad bits.  If I don't get there this fall then it will be next years project.