Saturday, June 15, 2019

My Magic Antenna

The 160 meter inverted L is my go to antenna that continues to amaze me! 

It loads on all bands 160m thru 10m with the exception of 80m.   No antenna tuner is required on 6m ,  50.313 or 160m and I think 15m as well...cant quite remember.  No special antenna tuner required the FT450d built in tuner is good enough. 

 This evening I worked into VK land on 20m.  I checked to see how my receive compared to what others were reporting in this part of NA.   













My QTH circled in  red and the 2 blue circles are the only hams that received the VK station at a higher level then me! 


Tuesday, June 11, 2019

1 am est on 17m June 12 , 2019

Propagation at the winter and summer solstice is always interesting.

Just lit up 17m and got a big surprise by a report from the land down under....