12/10/2006 | ON7UN Unfortunatly I was not ready in time to fully participate in the ARRL contest. This summer we started to fine tune the system. I constructed a new transverter and wanted to fine tune the antenna. After removing the old VE4MA feed I noticed that the 7/16 connector was burnt inside. Return loss however, was still the same as 3 years ago, when we constructed this feed. Since we were working together with Rasto, OM6AA to construct round septum feeds for 13 and 23 cm, I decided to replace the long style VE4MA by a new round septum feed with a super VE4MA choke ring. The new feed was in the antenna on Saturday of the second leg of the ARRL contest. On Sunday morning we gave out some points. More details on the round septum feed can be found at http://www.on7un.net/round_septum_feed.htm

Best 73's Eddy ON7UN
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