Last week I made a J-pole antenna for 2M. This antenna is made of 300 Ohm ladder-line I found in my junkbox. Yesterday evening I used the antenna indoors, hanging from the curtain rail, and could reach PI3AMF, a repeater in Amersfoort. A distance of 28 km. I used my FT817nd with 2,5 watts output.
This weekend I want to measure the swr with an external SWR meter.
The rest of this week I had no time for the hobby.
18:30 UTC. I saw that my swr meter is not suitable for 2m, stupid of me. Now I should just borrow one from a colleague in the neighborhood.
73, Tjeerd (Gose) - PA3GNZ
Radio quiet site in Scotland required for 50 MHz meteor scatter reception
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The *GB3MBA* beacon near Mansfield in England operates on *50.408 MHz* and
was set up to investigate reflections from meteor trails.
As the map shows abo...
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