Hi all,
want to do dx and also nice inner EU contacts.most times i take two antennas with me due to dx and nvis.today on dm/bw-159 i tried an antenna that worked good for me on 10m to 40m on all bands with a little tuner.with the other antennas i tried last time i had ever problems with swr ( with elecraft T1 ) on some bands. performance seems good on dx and also ok on closer contacts.
i build a vertical delta loop ( one side up,two at bottom,21mtr wire )that is feeded in the bottom part in one of the corners.feeded with 100ohm symetric line.works good on 20-10m.for 30 and 40m i have a link at the other bottom corner that i open then.now i have a folded dipole with a upper side with a lenght of 14m and the other side 7m.works fine, not as good as my 41mtr hw wire, but its a good compromise for the winter months and i haven´t not to do so much antenna works on the summit and the setup is really quick.
made a few nice qso´s on 40m and had a nice qso with N4EX on 17m with very good signal at me.also had a nice s2s with EA1IEH/P on 40m ssb and received the sigs from KI4SVM on 17m,but only a bit over the noise level.had my small batterie with me , so today only abt.3 watts cw and 5 watts ssb output. think conditions today was more poor here in south dl.
on 95% of the summits here,i have trees , so thats my new antenna for the next weeks. very simple, cheap and quick in setup.
next two days i are free of work,so i have time to make other tests on a the summits if its not raining.
vy 73 Klaus DF2GN
for next ssb activity and i ant that i don´t have to do so much selfspotting a info. - after the 20m cw part and the end of 40m cw activity i will call a few times on abt. 14.280 ± and 7.118 ± in ssb.so watch after the cw part on this bands. if that not works or i use other frequencys i will self spot if phone works there.
had problems to write the log,also the keying was not so fine.