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A recent /P trip convinced me that I needed a quick deployment multiband vertical antenna. The 20M ‘squid pole’end fed half wave worked well but I wanted to use other bands. Searching the web produced plans from W3FF for a homebrew Buddistick. (Clicking the the link will download a PDF file.) A trip to [...] During a week of very changeable weather in Wales I managed a couple of /P sessions. Setting up in an NT car park right on the coast produced some very good results. Tuning around the SSB section of 20m produced BH7PFH,VU2DK,VK4TUX,VK2IR,W6CCP,W8XH and on CW W7VV who I think was in QSO with [...] I came across the site of AA5TB this week and found his excellent article on end fed half-wave antennas. Like many others I have always thought that it was difficult to match the high impedance of an end fed half-wave to 50 ohms. Not true! After reading the article I made a simple matching unit [...] I recently discovered some photographs of one of my first /P events. The pictures were taken on 3 May 1972 at Burton Dasset hills in South Warwickshire. I think it was a 2m contest. The transmitter was cut from a Pye Cambridge with valves in the RF section and a transistorised modulator. It was supposed [...] The UKSMG have produced a video about their activities watch it here. Six metres is known as ‘the magic band’and as we are just about to enter the 6m season I plan to have a lightweight antenna for /P work this year. Can’t have a decent antenna at home but can make use of [...] | ||
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