Cold but sunny day here in Middle England just want to give you an update on this um signature
9 it's actually up I'm looking at it here which I'll let you see at the moment so there will be
some adjustments made I'm just letting Django in .. mild adjustments uh made only to the plates
what I had to do is I noticed the holes for the elements was slightly too fine for my liking so
I drilled them out I think to 7 millimeters it's lovely stuff to drill though um it's sort of like
a plasticine cardboard it just cuts perfectly so that's fine all the elements are on uh
no other comments to make other than the fact that uh the first 50 you get a 7 mil drill bit or yeah
3/8 inch would work (just under) whatever that is in old money and also the diameter of the plates
a little bit tight so they're not quite far enough down you could file that out or something. I'm
still working on the price so please don't don't hassle me on that that'll be out by this weekend
um some bad news and some good news um I've got a great bandwidth it's working as a classic my only
small issue is and I'm still working on this is the 5/8 pseudo three-quarter wave business for 10
and 12. now that I've got all the elements working I might strip it back down and and do that again
because that was in isolation ah basically what was happening is as I applied power the impedance
was changing it went up it started off you know perfect tune and it would go (this is on 500
watts) it would go you know 1.5 to 2.2 to 3 to 1. So something was charging up effectively so what
I want to do is get rid of all the problems by building it as a classic then I can start to see
if I can fault find that because it would just be fun to have at least a 5/8. on the 10 meter band
but otherwise really really comfy with it now I've currently got it on the signature flip over base
because I like to be able to make adjustments but the pole that I sunk into the ground the other day
it's the signature nine is going to fit on I was just letting it possibly have to use the
word let it heal I just wanted to set and it seems to have said it was just a bit like kind of soft
plaster-scene plasticine plaster-scene then how you say in your part of the world - like
a clay I want it to go off if you know what I mean so I might give it another few days
but that's fine but that's it from from this angle and as you can see we've got
no guys there at all so that's really lovely actually I think.. it's a 12
I've got lying on the ground I think it's 12.4 what I didn't want to happen
was that to be interacting with this and cocking up all my all my development
so there we go one Signature 9 now it's actually working I've got some tuning to
do tomorrow for instance best SWR and 10 meters is 27.6 I think ideal for 11 meters
there's a couple of bands two low couple of bands too high I don't know if that was me
in my tape measure I like to string everything up and then tune do a sweep and then come out
and do a tune once and for all I don't do one at a time I do them I do one big bang
when I tune in so just a reminder then uh the first 50 we'll just take that hole out tiny bit
you don't have to it was just a bit of a nightmare getting a shock-cord through and uh and an element
and also my feeling is some of these are a wee bit too tight I just twisted them round and around
and around until they went down but I prefer it a little bit further down right to sit on top of sit
on top of this that would be my favorite these HDL clamps here that's a reward for uh being one of
the first customers of this I'll .. I'll give you some extras you know extra wire things like that
uh basically equipment with 50 pounds off good all right uh that's it for the time being
um I just thought I'd give you an update all right let's uh find something interesting for
you to watch I'll let YouTube decide uh which video you should watch next is coming up here.
Obviously in the production version we'll have
those plates changed I'll talk to Tyler about that.