Monthly Archives: March 2015

Alternative, Portable or Mobile?

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Steve Netting OH3SPN

The UK licence conditions seem fairly clear when it comes to the definitions of mobile and portable; however on deeper analysis it’s clear some degree of interpretation is needed. Following a recent heated (to put it mildly) debate on the … Continue reading →

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Unexpected QRP Success

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Steve Netting OH3SPN

A few QRP CQ calls this afternoon on 40m resulted in a nice mini pile-up!  Running 5W from the FT847 to the 40m garden dipole, the first station to respond was F5BDK (Mario, near Paris). This was quickly followed by … Continue reading →

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Random Wire Loop Antenna

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Steve Netting OH3SPN

I’ve recently been researching multi band antennas. My first thought was to remove the balun from my 40m dipole, feed with ladder line from an external auto-ATU and treat as a doublet. However, in several auto ATU manuals one antenna … Continue reading →

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