Good Evening,
During a lull in the recent storms I had a chance to raise the
vertical wire of a 1/4 vertical. I have twenty radials in place with
four wire segments left to fill in any gaps. Each element is cut for
1/4 wavelength at 40 meters. I started stripping the end of each wire
when the weather changed. I remembered the wire nuts in my pocket so I
used them to affix four radials and the vertical wire to the feedpoint.
It tested well on both 20 and 40 meters when I sent a few CQs to the RBN.
Today that 40 m vertical worked well on 20 m, better than it did on
40 m a bit later. Conditions were changing all day. When I turned on
the radio around 9 AM there was a lot of noise with some QSB. During
the first net the QSB ranged over 4 s-units but fairly slowly. Noise
was less. I switched between the two antennas for most noise. My new
antenna won, it also got good signal reports. Signals were a little
weaker on 40 meters. Less QSB with higher noise.
On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z:
W0CZ - Ken - ND
K4TO - Dave - KY
K6XK - Roy - IA
AB9V - Mike - IN
K0DTJ - Brian - CA
K4JPN - Steve - GA
On 7047.5 kHz at 2330z:
KG7V - Marv - WA
K4TO - Dave - KY
K6DGW - Skip - CA
WM5F - Dwight - ID
K0DTJ - Brian - CA
W0CZ - Ken - ND
Until next week 73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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