Sunday, January 25, 2015

First garden portable activity of the year on SO-50

Yesterday, it was a cold but dry day and I thought it would be fun to go out in the garden and see what I could hear and work on SO-50. I quickly put a bit of charge into the UV-5R portable and assembled the Elk yagi.

The first pass I tried was off to the east and although I could hear plenty, I didn't manage a QSO. The next pass after that was pretty much overhead and I was a lot more successful, working 2E1EBX also using handheld gear, over on the Norfolk coast and then Yuri, UT1FG/MM in IO90 on his way up to Hull.

Really enjoyable and not too cold.

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:25 PM

    I'm hoping to do the same here someday with SO-50. Just need to either purchase or fabricate a good handheld antenna. 73, Phil AK7DD

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  2. Tim1:11 PM

    Hi Phil,

    It's good fun! There are quite a few homebrew designs about, otherwise both Arrow and Elk have good commercial antennas. You've got an FT-817 haven't you? You'd probably be able to make some half duplex contacts on FO-29 too with the same antenna.

    Tim

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