2026 SOTA Challenge (Part 2)

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@G6PJZ

I think it might be that the signal gets diffracted over hills and that alters the polarisation.

This! I rarely change to vertical for FM after a session on 2m SSB / CW.

Antennas - combined yagi, 5 + 8 elements is about as large as is practical to carry and set up. DK7ZB designs have a single feeder - less hassle.

Moxons can have nice round corners and mount easily on your backpack.

@N7DA

From the description, I can work that station only once for the points and not both 2m and 440. Too bad. It’s always fun to run the bands.

IMHO this is a big mistake. When running both bands, 90% of the people worked on 70cm will already have been worked on 2m. Why bother with 70cm unless there’s a contest on?