Station Upgrades

In the Month of May/June the RHR team has significant upgrades already finished or in the progress. The latest was upgrading the W2/Blueberry site with a new 16’ Chromoly mast and new feedline. Hence, the reason it was offline for two weeks. Pic enclosed:

W2/Blue is fully loaded 6-160M with significant upgrades on the WARC bands.

Today, the team is heading to Summit with two new 6EL 20M antennas that will be eventually stacked @ 120/70 with the top antenna on rotor and bottom fixed on Europe by end of May. Additionally, a new 3EL 40M is being installed on the same mast @ 110’. We are preparing another tower onsite with a 16EL tri-bander that will make this station SO2R ready by CQWW SSB.

At the end of the Month, the RHR team will head back to Maine and start a new 8/8/8/8 stack on 6M with WARC capabilities in Lubec. This station will also have SO2R capabilities by CQWW.

As with any upgrades, we can sometimes run into difficulties that can delay the timeframe on delivery but this is our projections over the next 4-6/wks. Please expect these sites to be periodically down or bands off-line while we make things better!