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Figured I'd try this bad boy out for stationary use in the wind. I just extend all top segments and leave the first segment about 1 inch extended, easy to tune. Works great.

You were getting out pretty good, I could swear I heard 306 Scotland try to get back to you on 37LSB at one point but you couldn't hear him. Double skip perhaps? The majority of stations I heard today were in CA and quite a few from across the Atlantic too. Weird conditions but it's all good, I...

Too windy to deploy the Moxon today, mud ducking on the mobile produced zero contacts. Part of it, good with the bad. I heard 917 make a solid effort on 16LSB but he couldn't hear me.

I set the Moxon up on our deck yesterday and tried it out with my old Tram and Gemtronics radios. I powered them from a 12v battery, not optimal but functional. While I did make a few contacts, I noticed random static. Should I run a temporary earth ground to any of the components such as mast...

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The antenna works better than I imagined. There's a photo of it deployed on the reclaim 16lsb thread. SWR was 1.2 on channel 1 through 5 and 1.0 on 6 through 40. That was according to the SWR function on the McKinley. It was a great lesson on the importance of antenna height also. At 16 feet...

Right on! That contact was icing on the cake of an already great 3 days off. Thanks again for the QSO. I heard 945, 1340, and 163 making contacts with you but just barely. I literally packed up and left 15 minutes after that with a big grin on my face. That Moxon was dancing in the wind gusts...

I was at Taum Sauk Mountain State Park at the highest point in Missouri but surrounded by pine trees. I tried getting back to 917 but he couldn't pull my numbers out of the noise. Too windy to deploy the Moxon yesterday, may try today. I thought I heard someone else try to get back to me but all...

Gemtronics GTX-77 and Tram Diamond 60. Scored them for 30 bucks each. Box stock, a little dusty, and still work great.

Used 14awg wire from an old extension cord, hub and insulators are cut from a couple of old campground signs. Spreaders are from a previous 1/4 wave ground plane project. I cut a section of female acme threaded paint roller handle to use as a nut for the center of the hub. The top post...

Made my first and only contact on 16LSB today with 572 Arizona mobile to mobile! There is a group of locals near me on 16 AM that operate pretty often and I don't operate sideband when they're talking. Sometimes I go to AM and join them, nice group...

And a few of those big stations key up and call CQ right on top of a station they just finished a QSO with after that station has initiated a contact with someone else. Wrecks a lot of contacts, I hear it often.

“Most of my wandering in the desert I've done alone. Not so much from choice as from necessity - I generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. I find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at...

Idaho, California, and Oregon on 12 watts from Missouri!

What area of St Louis?

I'm a doofus. It was around 12:45.

I was on my way home about 4:45 your time and you were all up in my radio banging out contacts lol. I was doing 70 mph west bound so yeah I think the ole Sirio was bent way over and I just couldn't get out QRP. By the time I got to "my sweet spot" the pipeline had moved. One of these days...:)

My first repeat dx contact yesterday, 999 Boston! Talked to him a few days ago and again yesterday. Excellent report. I love operating QRP.

Thanks! It's about a 1978 I believe. Gemtronics GTX-77 that as far as I know has never been tuned, modded, or even opened. Get's good audio reports and yeah the inverted V is working pretty good out on my brothers deck. I'd be surprised if it's even swinging 12 watts lol. I feel like I'm fishing...