DL6GCA
24 October 2023 08:03
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of course it works:
It’s probably not new to some people… but maybe it will help one
Sometimes, especially on longer, steeper hikes, I don’t want to carry an antenna mast to the summit.
Then I take my hiking poles and turn them into an antenna mast, which I stick into a bush or between stones.
I put it together with the handle loops and fix it with the Velcro straps that I use to hold the antenna wires and coax cables together. If you tighten the Velcro straps properly, it is quite stable. It’s about 2.50 m high…
After crossing the border and turning south, the landscape changed completely. Even the drive along the N-121-A was a pleasure.
As I am an early riser, I arrived in Pamplona too early to move into my holiday flat. The most sensible thing to do at this moment is to activate the local mountain EA2/NV-119.
And the first contact was ? … EA2DT !
View of Pamplona from EA2/NV-119
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Since the weather forecast had only announced 3 days of good weather, I took it sportily and changed my …
…but the radiation is different.
And you’re right… with many antennas, the coax cable’s shielding is very efficient as a counterweight. After feeding it into the antenna, I make a current balun at about 0.05 lambda of the lowest frequency. This is how I operate my endfed and the random wire on the 1:9 Unun.
73 Armin
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