Catwalker

Well, here it is going back together.

Vertical elements reassembled, not wound yet.














 Antenna temporarily reassembled, ready to solder leads onto coils.













3D printed brackets to hang the antenna.
Final assembly, mounted and ready for testing! And almost invisible unless you are looking for it!

Sweet.










Watch for me on 40 and 80!
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So time to cut tubes and remove tape and windings.













Tape and windings removed, sticky...











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Time to assemble some coils.

So here are the coils on their mountings, wound and connected to brass fittings:

You see a lot of real-estate above and below the coils, that is structural.















You can see here how the coil and structural components fit inside of the 2" vac tubes.

I haven't cut anything yet, this picture is with left over vac tube.












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So, now that I've shown a preview of what's to come, on with the show, the antenna is taking shape, or unshape, as the pictures show:

So, here is the antenna coming back down, while it worked, I wasn't too happy with the performance and decided to add loading coils.



































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Well, I'm not quite done with the current project, but I'm almost there (I hope.)

So it's time to start thinking of the next one. (Gotta have SOMETHING on the go.)
Can you guess what it is/isn't?

No, these connectors are not accurate, but there weren't any proper 3 prong electrical
symbols in Kicad. :/

** Edit: Oops, those capacitors labeled as 4700 uf should be 4700 pf... **

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Winding the coils...

31 turns (21 feet) of  # 14 Solid.




















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