For many years I have had my 2/70cm beam located on a mast attached to my shed. This was not ideal as it was actually pulling the side off the shed. For ages I have be meaning to mount a base stub mast and attached the main mast to it.
Finally with a few days off the job is done. I dug a hole around 2 feet down and 18in wide, drove the stub mast a further foot down and filled the hole with Postcrete. I did of course make sure it was true, using a spirit level.
The results are shown below.
There has been much discussion recently over working four day weeks. I have been on a four day rota for over ten years and I love it. I work 38 hours which means I work 12 hour days. This used to be called 'continental working'. Yes it's long days, but you only do four. I always have at least two days together off and, I save money because I only travel four days, which in my case saves 100 miles per month.
There seems to be a feeling among people that this would mean less money, but it won't. We are still stuck in this 9-5, Monday to Friday world, while still expecting others to work when we have time off.
The world has changed and we need to adapt to it. Covid caused a lot of things to change rapidly. We need to catch up.
This
started out as a way to try and stop my Broadband being knocked out when on HF
but has also cut the noise level on the HF bands.
Like most
things it all got very complicated etc until I found a blog post from M0NWK https://www.m0nwk.co.uk/mains-electricity-filter-for-emc-noise-reduction/
The
construction is simple and straightforward.
Parts list
Fair-Rite type 31 ferrite core.
I got mine on Ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181209693756
Mains Cable. I used 1mm
standard flex.
Box. Got mine from Screwfix
Construction was easy, I wound 6 turns around the ferrite. This is the recommendation og GM3SEK on his very useful web site http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek/in-prac/#big31 I used a couple of cable ties to hold it together.
The results so far are encouraging. I
can now run 50w of FT8 on 17 and 10m without knocking out my G.Fast Broadband. Noise
levels on the lower HF bands seem lower but nothing spectacular.
