Worked the California QSO Party SSB on Saturday October 7th. In 2+ hours I made 12 contacts on 20 and 15 meters. SSB is truly a challenge when mobile. Need to get my code skills rocking and rolling.
20 meters had significant noise, 15 was good, and 10 meter stations could not hear me with my signals, probably either too weak or flying over the state. 40 meters was dead.
Always good fun.
73 Glenn
EZNEC is an excellent tool for designing and/or analyzing antennas, written by W7EL. It used to be a free version for hams, and a more thorough professional one (for $500) for engineers. They are both now available for FREE!
I downloaded it and I like it. I have been using the free version (basic) of MMANA-GAL antenna software at: http://gal-ana.de/promm/index.htm
They compliment each other very well.
Sometime this winter I want to work on a multiband vertical HF antenna to backup my 80m loop sky antenna. This will help.
Thanks for the info from roger@paltec.ca sent by Glenn.
Joseph VA7AJJ
Norm Younie VE7SAY spoke to twenty IslandHF radio amateurs on Thursday evening September 21st. His topic was HF slot antennas. He has built his own slot and operates on all HF bands including 160. The meeting was video streamed and eight amateurs took the opportunity to link in via Zoom.
Although the video has issues (this was the first meeting using video streaming) here is the video link. Passcode is %Gs3?w1c
