From the day we live in our new house I have a discussion with the people next-door about setting up my antenna tower.
They do not want a tower next to there house but do not have a reason for it. When I started my antenna building project next to my house
the first thing they did was calling the local government to stop me building.

This became a long story during the fight with the people from the government to restart building activities.
Because of the complaining people next-door I did not get an license to build my tower on the place I want.
Now I had to find an other way to get my tower build up, and after discussion an discussion with the government finally I found a way to get it agreed. I had to make a sort of construction from steel mounted at my house where I could place the tower on. ( see pictures below )

This is allowed in the Netherlands because of a new law that says, a tower / construction that is mounted on the wall of a house and is not higher than 5 meters above the roof, you can place without a license. On this way the complaining people had no weapon to hit me anymore.
This was the only way to get my tower up.

And so I am finally finished this project. Now the next step is to make new antennas this winter and collect new coax from a telecom provider in NL to have less coax loss as with regular coax you can buy in the Ham store.

My new 2 mtr antenna

Setting up new antennas give you a lot of work to get in first instance a perfect design and than you have to collect the materials.

I use a design of DK7ZB for both type of antennas I want to build.
First the 9 element yagi's with folded dipoles and 8mm elements, the boom is made from 30mm alu. and the elements are mounted on plastic parts.

In my new setup I use 2 x 9 elem yagi stacked horizontal. The specifications down here are for a single yagi.

Gain/SWR pattern

Current profile

     1021      968   945             921                  906                     895                       889                      900                888mm  Element-lengths

     0mm      345   615            1175                1870                    2675                     3505                     4345              4980mm Element-positions

The new 70cm antenna,

For 70cm I use also a design of DK7ZB, and this is a 23element type, a bit changed for use with the materials I have at this moment.
I also use a folded dipole on this yagi. The elements are again mounted on plastic parts as I used in the 2mtr design above.

In my new setup I use 2 x 23 elem yagi stacked horizontal. The specifications down here are for a single yagi.