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Last night I decided to try to build a new 15M Delta Loop antenna. I wanted to try a new design and a hammer out a new band for POTA. Just to be different. I built the antenna figuring it would work on 15M and maybe 12M or 10M. Well
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I started the day out making a 20m 1/4 wave "Fishing Pole" vertical antenna since I have not deployed a HF vertical in several months. I cut 16'4 inches of 18ga "speaker wire" for the vertical element and four ground radials at around
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Three great things today: First of all, finally made a round trip email->reply->reply to another HAM in Arizona over Winlink. Super cool to send a message this way. Second, we had a local SIMPLEX test on 2M. Good to see how far 2M will go. Third,
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Today I hooked up the uSDX+ and ATU100 Tuner to the 20M inverted V antenna to experiment with FT8 and Winlink. Made a couple of Winlink connections last night and this morning, farthest hop was around 800mi for Winlink. For FT8, I had a South Africa station respond to my
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Russian science center in Antartica! I know it is FT8 and not SSB, but how great is this contact for a new ham to get!