Not a great success. Tried a 200ft inverted L with 7m vertical section
fed against 3 radials each between 50 and 100ft long. The final 100ft
was very low - within 1 metre of the ground.
Did not succeeded in tuning aerial up in link configuration. Tried
tapping the feeder at various points on the main coil but this reduced
the Q dramatically and the RX and TX performance were very poor. In
configurations where the RX performance was good and the Q high, there
was little on no aerial current on transmit. The only configuration that
gave some antenna current was nearly useless on receive. Connecting a
radial to a metal fence detuned things so much that I go nowhere like that.
Heard GW0HXO's beacon at reasonable strength and GW3UEP's beacon - just.
Called CQ quite a few times. No takers.
Band was still noisy even on relatively remote hilltop with horrible
"line-timebase" type burble drifting across band.
Clearly more work required to get a viable system. Tips?
73
Richard
G3CWI
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