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Here is Steve with his monster loading coil in its waterproof coat.

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Here you can see the base of Steve's 12m aerial mast supported by the children's swing frame! The 4m wooden upright is topped with a fiberglass pole which slides up tracks for easy erection.

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Here is the biggest coil on 136kHz... unless you know of a bigger one! It is wound with coax cable at the bottom and connecting wire at the top and has an inductance of 6mH. On top is the variometer.

dial 999!

A close-up of the base shows what happened before Steve got the coil its lovely coat... During a QSO with Finbar EI0CF, rain began to fall and the damp wooden end plate started to smoulder and burn!