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Evening POTA FT8 Coconino National Forest It is dry here... Here is the setup: * PARK: US-4428 * ELEVATION: 6,500 feet * RIG: uSDX+ HF with ATU100 tuner * ANTENNA: 20m EFHW 9:1 * BATTERY: 12v Car Battery Propergation on 20M was very good tonight. Within minutes, I had 5 contacts on
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My first Arizona POTA activation. I used 9:1 end fed antenna and the sBITX running at <10w. Made 3 phone contacts and a bunch of FT8. Here is the setup: Here is the activation info:
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Experimenting with the Chineesium HF Rig today... here is the setup: 20M @ 2.8W out of the tuner SWR=1.17 10M @ 1.4W out of the tuner SWR=1.2 on a not so greatly tuned 20M antenna. USB to PC running WSJT-X for FT8 ops. Today was
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Today was a day in history for me... Mark this day down as my first: * POTA Activation with my own gear. * POTA Activation using the new sBITx Radio. * First TX from the new sBITx Radio. * POTA Activation covering the FT8 Digital mode. * Use of my home built end fed 1/
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New Radio Alert! My Gigaparts order just arrived... I am excited about the possibilities of this hacker type HF rig. POTA? Digital? HUGE SCREEN!
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Interesting airwave pipeline up the Appalachian mountain range this morning. There is a weather front moving in that same direction.
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After getting the POTA bug, I decided I wanted a portable rig to take to the park. There are generally two radios that keep popping up on YouTube for this application: The Xiegu G90 and the Yaesu FT-891. After doing research on both radios, I kept mulling over the
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Different arcs of parks today...
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Today’s QSL’s and #potahunting. Early morning was pretty clear shot up and down the East coast.
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Good #POTA hunting contacts today. 10M/15M have been good band for me lately. Two more DX POTA parks!
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Early morning 10M was clear to Europe for #POTA. I am amazed at what a ~53′ wire in the back yard can do! I am thinking that arc of parks in the Euro zone are all about where the 2nd or 3rd bounce of signals land as the skip across
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NEW RADIO ALERT! My first ownership of a "big rig" (not those little HT things!) Gigaparts had a sale a few days ago on the Yaesu FT-991A at the lowest price I have seen. After using Ken's 991A, really became at home with this great