On my second trip to Stac Pollaidh GM/NS-086, I knew there wouldn’t be space to pitch the Link dipole so I took the SPX100 base loaded antenna instead. I just sat it on a ledge with the magmount on a steel tray about the size of a dinner plate for a bigger footprint and draped the counterpoise wires over the edge of the rocks. It worked surprisingly well on 20m and got me enough QSO’s to qualify the activation that time.
I took the SPX100 up Arthur’s seat as well this year but it wasn’t so good on 40m, I’ll need to experiment with it and the VNA.
It is surprising what works under these conditions.
Andy
MM7MOX
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