Today is a rain day, that we had also planned as a rest day after flying the last two practise days. On the agenda for today was to mount the antenna for the team base station. After looking around the B&B, it became obvious that the best location would be on the roof along with all the other antennas. The girls wouldn't let us climb on the roof, so after a conversation with the owner of the B&B we called her antenna guy last night and this morning at 9 am he arrived in the rain with his truck and ladder to mount our antenna.
I imagine the roof was just a little bit slippery, but he climbed it like an expert Although I think there was a little hesitation when he first got up there.
So we now have the tallest team antenna in Leszno ! In Uvalde, we had the antenna mounted on the second floor balcony of the hotel and we had a range of about 175 km with the base station. With this roof mount, the antenna is about 30 ft higher than we were in Uvalde and it has an unobstructed view of the the task area in all directions. We'll report back later what kind of range we are getting.
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Not like the fun we had in Uvalde putting it up!
ReplyDeleteIt is great having Jarek here as the Team Captain, it was done in 20 minutes and we didn't have to do any work:)
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