These pictures were taken on Friday night. Not sure how my camera makes it look like day. The next day was peaceful with a little mist and I made one contact in the contest on PSK31 when everything went sideways, literally, The rain came down and literally blasted off the water proof material off the roof before squashing me poor tent from the 70's to the ground. And then continued to pound it into the earth for an hour before letting up long enough to pick up the pieces. After we picked everything up we just packed and headed back home. Overall a rather crappy trip.

Well I revisited the inverted v dipole I had previously made and with the help of a couple of calculators came up with an off center feed dipole. But this time instead of cutting my wire to the length required I started from the terminals of the 4:1 jetstream balun to the receiving part of the dogbone.  One element 23' 2" 3/8 and the other element 46' 3" 5/8 and holy smokes what a difference. 40m, 20m and 10m I get 1:1 SWRs. Which really doesn't mean much as my can-o-dummy gets 1:1. I haven't had a chance to test it's range. Nor have I plotted it in MMANA. This was just an impulse brain fart. But I calculated 1/3 wave for 7.074 and doubled that for the other side. Before that I was trying to find a happy middle between digital and phone, but that's a difference of 3 feet from end to end. And neither side feeling the joy of resonance. So since I do more digital I sided with the lengths for digital modes. I may fire up the smelter furnace and do some lost PLA casting to make an octopus antenna using ham stix this summer for my next project.

Here my command line for FreePBX of known VoIP offenders. This can be copy and pasted into an SSH window on the FreePBX machine.

fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.62.41.13
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.62.41.109
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.62.41.111
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.62.41.122
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.62.41.136
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.62.63.181
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.62.63.182
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.62.63.183
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 5.133.28.104
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 23.111.159.182
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 31.200.196.68
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 35.237.84.197
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 37.8.1.72
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 37.8.79.196
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 46.166.151.47
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 51.68.93.62
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 51.77.64.182
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 62.210.10.228
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 66.223.239.112
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 69.162.102.46
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 69.162.107.146
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 70.91.233.137
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 77.234.44.141
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 77.247.108.37
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 77.247.109.67
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 77.247.109.78
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 77.247.109.122
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 77.247.109.138
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 82.205.29.183
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 94.23.27.164
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 94.125.1.179
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 102.165.35.78
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 102.165.48.99
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 102.165.49.212
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 139.99.119.241
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 147.135.39.209
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 147.135.44.73
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 163.172.224.41
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 176.31.239.11
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.40.4.73
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.40.4.87
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.40.4.93
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.40.4.103
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.40.4.159
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.40.4.229
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.53.88.2
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.53.88.57
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.53.88.58
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.53.88.80
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.53.88.131
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.53.88.156
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.53.88.158
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.53.88.161
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 185.212.47.34
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 188.165.196.94
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 192.99.116.9
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 192.210.152.22
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 198.23.159.154
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 207.180.248.57
fwconsole firewall add blacklist 216.10.247.202

I built this because one of my antennas receives much better than the antenna I transmit with. Inversely the other transmits better. So this idea was my solution.