Kongsfjord - 70°43'N 29°21'E
Antennas
Current antennas per 16 October 2009:
Beverage antennas
1: 30 degrees, 610
meters (NOT ERECTED)
Aimed mainly at eastern Pacific (from NZ eastwards), very good for Hawaii,
Alaska too
2: 58 degrees, 550 meters.
Aimed mainly at Japan, eastern Australia, Guam
3: 85 degrees, 600 meters (NOT ERECTED)
Aimed mainly at SE Asia; Australia. The back lobe hears Brazil and Argentina
well
4: 315 degrees, 220 meters (old).
Aimed mainly at eastern North America, also good towards Mexico and northern
South America
5: 315 degrees, 470 meters (new) (NOT ERECTED)
This is a back-lobe beverage. Otherwise same as 4 but more gain. Also more EU
interference so sometimes the old 315 provides better SNR
6: 340 degrees, 350 meters.
New; replaces the old 333 degrees, 290 meters beverage. Aimed mainly at western
North America
7: Quad Delta Flag Array. Beats almost all the existing
antennas at all times...
See
here
for details.
General
All
antennas are fed with RG-213 coaxial cables into passive splitters in-door.
Average height above ground for beverages is around 2 meters.
