QTH

 

This photo shows the windmill and my QTH. It was taken last weekend from the church tower. 

Our bungalow is the one immediately in front of the windmill. If you look carefully you can see my V2000 vertical (look for the white vertical).

Back of the garage 2012

 This was the back of my garage at the old QTH where most of my building was done . Since moving to my new QTH in the following year I have a dedicated room for building and operating.

My QTH

 

This photo was taken last year. It shows my QTH. The V2000 tri-band vertical can be seen on the left.

G3XBM QTH

The photo shows where I live. Ours is the bungalow immediately to the left of the copper tree to the right of the windmill. 

The home QTH

The photo shows my QTH next to the windmill. You can just make out the V2000 triband vertical antenna on the side of the bungalow. Mind you, you have to know where to look!

Home QTH

This is a view of the QTH. The orchard is in a neighbour's garden. Most years, these trees are laden with apples and plums. All my antennas are not visible. My earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground is in the back garden.

VHF/UHF take-off at new QTH

This evening I went up to our new, well being newly renovated, bungalow on top of our local "hill" immediately next to the Burwell windmill.

Currently the roof is being re-tiled and there was scaffolding everywhere, so I took the opportunity to climb up a ladder to the roof level to judge the VHF/UHF take-off.

Well, the good news is that even at just above the gutter level there is an excellent virtually unbroken (clear of houses) take-off from the north west all the way around to the south. With an antenna a few metres above the roof apex height, it should have a pretty good take-off in most directions.  It just begs me to get some better gear for the 2m, 70cm and possibly 23cm and 3cm bands. We'll see.

I was also checking out optical communications possibilities. At lower heights, the horizon view is obstructed, but I should be able to arrange my optical beacon for cloud-bounce and clear air forward scatter, non line-of-sight, tests with the beacon firing up at around 20 degrees up from horizontal in many directions out towards Cambridge and beyond.