I spent most of my effort this weekend sloshing through the ice and briars
in the woods next to my house putting up a phased beverage for 40M. I'm
not quite finished so I don't know if the thing will be an improvement over
listening on the dipole. I was in an area of woods so thick with briars
that I know that no one has set foot there in goodness-knows-how-long, when
I met a neighbor for the first time. He started the conversation (he was
on his deck, I was far down below in the briars and soaking wet from the
melting ice) with the greeting, "Hey, do you know you're on my
property?" Oh well.
I use elevated radials with my inverted L on 160 -- except I didn't bother
to elevate the radials. Four of them were still on the ground under the ice.
Low power.
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults Countries
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160CW 61 61 136 24 1
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Totals 61 61 136 24 1
Final Score = 3400 points.
73,
- Jay, K4OGG
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