20m beam ready

I did some work this weekend on both fixing the cabinet which will contain various switching for the 20 and 40m stack in the 60m tower. It was not in good shape so I need to seal some holes and also repaint the whole cabinet.

I also did work on the 20m beam. The driven element is almost done so hopefully next weekend we will hoist the antenna up to 60m. I have also decided to go with an 4el OWA design for the 40m band since the new extended bandwidth makes it a suitable antenna. The current 40m yagi is already 4el ut the boom will be shortened a bit and the first director will be moved closer to the driven element to make it 50 ohms and also better bandwidth.

Here are some pictures

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