A couple of months ago we had a really big storm and the Cushcraft X7 HF Yagi and Tower was eating dirt. The damage was pretty severe when the tower section crumpled pushing the X7 into the ground. Luckily the main tower and aerials survived although the 160m loop was damaged.

Most of the elements on one side were bent and the trapped director was snapped. The 40 meter add on was totally smashed and the boom was broken in two.

Luckily I had a lot of ali tubing that was just right to replace the broken elements, and some boom section off a Cushcraft 40m 2-ele Yagi fixed the X7’s broken one.

Lot’s of heating, cutting, bending and drilling finally brought it back from the dead. It now looked like a X7 again.

The next job was the tower. The crumpled section was replaced and the cage and rotator fitted. The X7 was then installed on the tower and cabled up.

Will it work? well I powered up the rig and put some RF into it on 40M, all ok the add on working FB. Next the X7 proper and again FB on all bands, every thing working as it should thank goodness!

What did it cost? I guess about 3 days work in all but luckily all materials already at hand and now an aerial that was only scrap lives again.

This aerial is the standby incase a main aerial fails but will also be used for the spotter.

Next job is the 160m loop!

73 Paul G6PZ