A few spare hours today saw a clear-out and check-out of the 'countryside shack' after the winter break.
The good old TS-480 worked without a hitch, as did the Raspberry Pi and its screen.
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| The loaded dipole, showing top disc end load. Matches all bands 20-6m. |
I generally now use the end-loaded vertical dipole, which is very useful in this period of variable and often unpredictable propagation. Power is from a standard 70Ah car battery, which is fed by a 60W mono solar panel.
Though simple, the dipole gets out well. Here are a few plots, starting with 20m, of FT8 stations hearing my 15W over an hour or so this afternoon. I even managed a few reports on 12m (not shown)!
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| Reception reports of FT8, 14MHz. |
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| 18MHz. |
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| 21MHz. |
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| About 10 minutes' worth of 1W WSPRing, 14MHz. |
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