Listen out for the Icom callsign

Icom UK's offices in Herne Bay, Kent, gained a new addition to its skyline in the first week of May when a team of Amateur Radio Enthusiasts updated the company’s antenna system. It is hoped that the new installation will further enhance the operation of the company’s Amateur Radio operating equipment G4ICM in its ‘shack’ which is a major haunt for most of the staff in the company.

The new system has a Unity Gain Collinear, two diamond X-5000 verticals and a four band hybrid quad antenna for HF and 6 metres. The team also renewed all the feeder cable.

The new antenna system was put up by;

John Turner G0KFO (Amateur Product Specialist), Don Turner G4TKR (General Manager),
Brian Didmon G4RIS (IT Support),
Jerry Kelk G4JMP (IT Manager),
Chris Ridley G8GKC (Service Engineer),
Colin Turner G6OEY (Technical Support Specialist) and Peter Broadhurst M3GQJ (Warehouse Manager)

The whole operation took 7 hours over two days to complete.

John Turner said, ‘The upgrade is definitely having an impact on the wide range of operating equipment in the Icom shack. There has been major improvements in all the equipment's efficiency because the antenna has allowed better reception of weaker signals, and also improved the station transmit capability’. However Roger Diamond, Advertising Designer for Icom (UK) Ltd said, “I still can’t get Radio 4”.

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