Yesterday morning around 8:00 local time, I heard during my breakfast signals from the beacon I0JX/B on 6 meters. Unfortunately, no further action was heard and gone outdoors for other activities that day.
Today I borrowed a swr meter to see what the swr is of my homemade 2 meters J-pole antenna made of 300 Ohm ribbon cable. The swr was reasonable, 1:1.4.
The J-pole antenna hung in the doorway to the balcony.
I made a qso via the repeater of Amersfoort (PI3AMF) without problems, 5 watts output. The other station told me that the swr is improving by an RF choke. I got a phonecall and the qso was abruptly ended. Google gave me no answer for an RF choke for this situation. Any ideas?
73, Tjeerd (Gose) - PA3GNZ
Es so far and QRPP 8m WSPR
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There have been Es openings in Europe on 10m and 6m, but nothing yet to
suggest my 10mW ERP 8m WSPR would be copied. This is the power that *anyone*
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