Ok what?! Its true! The team at the Playground Amateur Radio Club has been busy the last few Pile-Ups with multiple projects occurring at once in true Sunday Pile-Up fashion! One of note is from a post a while back where we were donated an old, broken, worn, and in need of help Cushcraft R9. Well we at the Playground Amateur Radio Club just so happened to have an old, broken, worn, and in need help Chushcraft R7.

Over the last 3 weeks, a majority of the team (old, new, and interested members and guests) have donated thier time to step in and help tear the two old verticals apart and rebuild them into a singular tuneable and usable HF vertical! Today marked a milestone in assembly of all sections and erecting it for testing and WOW the results!

Thank you to all members and visitors who partook in this venture to enhance the communication capabilities of the Playground Amateur Radio Club and enhance each other’s skillsets!

Testing this Frankantenna resulted in great and usable SWR on the following bands

* 80 meters (3.5 MHz)

* 40 meters (7 MHz)

* 30 meters (10 MHz)

* 20 meters (14 MHz)

* 17 meters (18 MHz)

* 15 meters (21 MHz)

* 12 meters (24 MHz)

* 10 meters (28 MHz)

* 6 meters (50 MHz)

This asset will be in service by the end of July and the Playground Team will be pressing forward with other antenna projects soon to come! Do you want to see and or use them? Stop on by the Club by checking the club calendar for when we will be there!