For a while now I used a 56 meter (184 foot) long horizontal loop, hung up in our back yard. It kind of works for 160, 80 and 40 meter. On higher bands it did not work well. Actually I could not get out of Europe on it.Therefor I hung up a Fritzel FD4 a…
Tag: Antenna’s
Mini field day and IARU-contest
A while ago Mark, PA4M and I planned a ‘field day’ of our own. Last Sunday would be the day if the rain wasn’t too strong. We picked a spot near the Gooimeer in the center of the Netherlands. We were in the middle of some farmers land. Mark did bring his homebuilt end fed…
Buddipole accessoires
This weekend another package arrived in the PA1JIM-shack! It’s from Wimo and contains a Buddipole mast of 240 cm (only 66 cm folded) and a tri-pot. So now I’m able to actually set-up the Buddipole in the field. Still need to align the Elecraft K1 for proper functioning and complete the last 6 CW-lessons. Then…