Yesterday I took my 20 meter Par End Fedz over to The Birkhead Wilderness Area and hiked up to the top of Coolers Knob...
After about 30 minutes ... I finally got my antenna line up in a tree and hoisted the far end of the antenna up to approx 35 ft ... the transformer was sloping down to abt 10 ft...headed to the NE.
This little 20 meter long wire was impressive .... I worked into Europe several times using 50 watts from the FT-857D and A123 ultra-light battery pack.
I operated from 21:00Z to 22:24Z .... or .... 5:00pm to 6:24 EST / local time ... run tine 1 hour 24 minutes.
NO ...I usually wasn't first in the pile-ups ... but I could work what I could hear, if I was patient and waited my turn.
Here is todays log w/ my signal report..............
KD0ETC... MN ... 59
E77DX ... Bosnia ...59
PD1ALW...Netherlands ...55
CO6LC .... Cuba ...59
KI6EZA ... CA / Qrp ...49
YU1PJ ... Serbia ...59
J88CF ... St Vincent ...53
WA7TN ... WA ...55
EC7ABV ...Spain ...55
EA6AZ ... Balearic Islands ....59
All pictures were taken by my 11 year old daughter "Taylor" ....who hiked with me up the mountain !!
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