It's up, since yesterday, had a dry day 18 C, so hauled my almost 68 year old ass and antenna and coax up, removed the old crap including coax, and put the refurbished one up, now i have only one spare Imax 2000 left ;)
Works fine, very low loss coax on it, SWR on 10 around 1: 1.2, 11 meter 1:1.4, 12 meter 1:1.6, 15 meter 1; 1.8, 17 meter 1:2.8, 20 meter 1:4 last 2 bands workable with tuner.
On 20 meter reception isn't too far off the OCF from fritzel, sometimes a tad better, sometimes a tad less.
The OCF also works on 17 though 1:1, so the goal was to get 15/12/10 working well which i got.
No radials used, just some ferrite clamps around the coax at the feed point, the mast of 7 feet and steel cables around the concrete chimney work as "counterpoise" it seems.
Feedpoint is 11 meter of the ground, or about 35 feet.
Very white with the coat of paint on it though... shiny as well, flopping around happily.
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