KH6JRM's Amateur Radio Blog-simple antennas continued
Now that some clear weather has returned to Hawaii Island, I've been able to fix most of my antennas that were damaged by high winds and the 25 inches of rain my qth received during a very wet March. Most of the repairs went well. The fiberglass poles were a little scratched by airborne debris and the wire elements were a bit twisted around the masts, but, in general the antennas came through the storms alright. I was able to lower the masts most of the time before I left for school and that prevented more damage from the high winds. I erected my two verticals in their original configurations--one a 40-meter inverted vee with the apex at 33 feet and the other a 20-meter vertical dipole stretched out on an old 33-foot MFJ fiberglass pole. Both antennas were fed by 35-feet of 450-ohm balanced ladder line into a MFJ W9INN 4:1 balun. A short run of RG-6 coax (15 feet) was connected to my trusty Drake MN-4 ATU. That in turn was connected to the old Swan 100-MX at the operating