Jack, W0UCE, helped me install a hustler 4BTV February 15th. After a fine day with my wife on February 14th, Jack and I devoted a good chunk of Sunday to the 4BTV. Jack was kind enough to assemble the antenna during the week. We hauled it over to my QTH Sunday morning. We placed 24 15 foot radials on the ground for the ground plane. Tuning the antenna was quite a challenge. After several hours we called it a day with just 10 and 20 meters tuned. Jack treated me to a fine steak and 807s afterward.

Monday evening I played with it some more in the few precious moments of sunlight after work and manged to get 15 meters to an acceptable SWR...40 meters is still up in the air...

3:1 is the best I can get it in the CW band, but I'll go with it for now. This antenna will serve mainly as a second radio antenna during this weekend's ARRL CW contest.

After a week of a lot of antenna thoughts, I managed, with help, to add a few to the farm. First, the Cushcraft A3S went up on a 23 foot wooden mast last week. It's aimed South at the moment, but I may point it west. This antenna came from the Estate of KE4GY, Frank Moore. Frank suddenly passed away this past December. Frank was a good man and is deeply missed. He was a regular at the PVRCNC meetings. Bert, N4CW, is in charge of the radio equipment from the estate. Thanks for

The A3S is working well. The intention is to use it for mults to the south in DX contests.

This past Saturday (Feb. 7th), my good friend Jack, W0UCE came over to help me install an antenna that favors the Northwest. After much thought, we decided to take the easy route and go with a driven element from an old tribander. The antenna is very high for my QTH, it's near 80 to 85 feet up. It tunes well on 20 and 10 and it's acceptable on 15M. It compliments the existing antennas very well. Special thanks to Jack for helping out.