Some of you may recall my earlier posts inquiring about recommendations for stationary antennas. Here is my update and progress report so far.

1 have constructed k5oe eggbeaters for both bands and so far only tested the 2 mtr uplink 2 also completed construction of a 70 cm turnstile moxon and will try next month along with a quadridiler for 2m and 2m moxon if I get it finished 3 yesterday I tried a Antennas.us 70cm quadridiler and home brew 2m k5oe.

Results: I was able to hear my cw down link fairly well on FO-29 down to about 8 deg or so using a mirage preamp at the station with short run of coax. I'm encouraged though as usual no one to talk to. I was really surprised that I heard w7jpi with a solid ssb cq on AO-7 which I didn't think was still operational. For receive on 10 I'm using an OCF windom with ts-2000 and it's internal hf preamp. Nothing was heard yesterday out of AO-51 at least when I tried.

I'll report further next month after I have given a fair trial to all home brew antennas and the one inexpensive commercial product I mentioned. At least I'm more encouraged.

Rick W2Jaz