1 december 2011

once again the MW band very poor and nothing to report. myself and Ken were back at his new beverage which he replaced the faulty section of coax with 2 core electrical cable which the idea came from Bjarne Mjelde  and we fed audio from his shack through the coax/electrical cable to the feed point of the beverage just to make sure there was no faults and the audio was loud and clear through a speaker which we then connected the main beverage wire to the balun and the power cord was connected to the coax side of the balun. we then returned to his shack and made some tests against his beverage in the wood and everything seems fine ie the Faeroe's on 531 was more or less the same signal and same for the Irish stations BUT ! on  1008 the dutch station was well down on the new beverage and the likes of 1044 on the wood beverage he was getting Germany and on the new beverage Spain was coming in and so far it looks promising but we wont know until the transatlantic stations come in .... more to follow ....