Hello,
Today midday I saw a good weather in my window. I jumped and grabbed my portable gear.
Once in the balcony I decided my 40-15m EFHW was too long to deploy hanging in front of my neighbour’s windows, and I decided to cut a new 10m wire to try 20m only.
I trimmed it quickly to get a perfect 1:1 match (I was a bit afraid of my thick metal rail near the antenna but I used a fishpole to bend the wire outwards 2 meters apart.
The rig was happy and I hanged the wire using a clothes peg near the feed point transformer:
All ready!
I started the rig and CQ on 14.060 CW a bit. No replies…
I scanned the band and soon found 3 stations that I logged in a row:
LY300GAON, OH5STAYHOME and AM8WARD (hey, Canary Isl is just opposite direction hidden by my apartment!!)
Okay, I stayed a bit more calling CQ: see what I got with 5w:
Not bad for a silly wire strung out the balcony.
After lunch I got back to the balcony and worked a few more stations:
DM30RSV, OL1ADZ, GM4ZUK, HA5JI, and last W1UE (running on RSGB HQP test), wow!!!
Things are not perfect, I have a constant noise S5-6 but anyway, who said being portable at home is not fun?
Okay it’s not the mountain, but at least the air is blowing around and I got the feeling…
73 de Ignacio