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The original receive antenna was a K9AY 4 direction loop. A Europe/Asia and North American beverage system was added in 2003. Another K9AY was added to support SO2R operation. Plans call for the 2 beverages to be converted to 2 wire bi-directional beverages in Oct 2006.Click on any picture to view a larger image or use the Slide Show link below to view all pictures in a separate window

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K9AY South antenna. This antenna has been rebuilt several times. Currently the termination resistor is remote controlled. This is the Original K9AY relay box. The relays to achieve 4 directions is inside.
The current K9AY relay box uses 4 wires to control the relays This is the bottom of the K9AY relay box. The antenna wires enter the small black boxes.
A view of the South K9AY antenna top. The K9AY loop wires can be seen terminating into the relay box.
The third box on top of the Stackmatch controls was used as the original K9AY controller. Currently the small white box with the Black knob controls the k9ay. To the left is the RAS8 beverage selector.
The Wx was very bad in Nov 2004. The beverage wire was over a flooded field. This is the European beverage feedpoint.
The North American beverage wire and 2 meter support polls. The North American beverage and South K9AY are shown. The beverage feedline is 900 ft of RG6 coax.
 

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This page was last updated 11/16/06