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Clock: Before and After

A clock that I had stored here:

Look at how became:

Awesome !!!

Improved Reception - Automatic Antenna Tuner

It's a LDG IT-100 and it is fantastic... tunes up everything from 6 to 160 meters.

Improved Reception - New Short Wave Antenna (HF)

With lot of help from my friend Avelino from Naucom assembled this much better antenna than the last. Advance that the balun was initially made by me with a t130-2, and later improved by Carlos Ladeiras (CT1QP), also from Naucom, with the replacement of the toroid by an t200-6.

Balu	Insulator and fixation

Antenna

Icom 7100

Finally got it ...
No words ...

Lots of Mail

This week's the post office will have more mail than usual ... :-)

And the Bureau also:

Improved reception - New Antenna Tuner (for reception only)

More an antenna tuner that João Martins offered me this time, handmade by him too, YES he is very ingenious. This is only for receiving and has greater coverage of "impedances". Or something like that. Just know that is much better with this tuner than with the previous. The only disadvantage of this, is that later I can not has transmit with him ...

Improved Reception - Antenna Tuner

A device that João offered me, an antenna tuner, handmade by him, two variable capacitors, and more that I not sure what is.
Here it is:

Improved Reception - Short Wave Antenna (HF)

Lots of help of my colleague, more than that, a great friend, CT1WV, I finally have a short wave antenna. Here I share photos to see how it was. I advance that it is a long wire in spiral with a length of about 7 meters (my available space) and are approximately 1 meter and 2 meters at the end of the antenna away from my building.

New Radio - Kenwood Th-f7e

After a lot of annoy my mother finally agreed to pay half of the radio. It cost € 260, new, and was purchased in Gitei in Porto, by phone. Here it is ...