ft8 20200815

10 meter end fed half wave antenna with 49:1, working on 20 and 10 meters. Managed to get heard in North America and South America, something the previous dipoles couldn't do.

On the exact same antenna, I put an SDR (not an RTL-SDR) ... I know the uBitx isn't exactly a high end transceiver, but wow - so many different signals pulled out, impressive.

ft8 20200812

So, I wanted to build a magloop for a while now. Tried first with the main loop out of a 26" aluminum bicycle rim, but it was too small and couldn't get it to tune. After getting some 5mm copper pipe, built one with a big loop diameter of 105 cm - much better and excellent reception with the loop placed indoors. Unfortunately, emission efficiency was ~1% according to online calculators, so not much signal (except a -20 report a few miles away, still impressive though).

ft8 20200620

Conclusion of the "DXpedition" in KN35: 80m performance on the EFHW was quite poor, need to tweak it a little more. 40m and 20m worked perfectly both day and night, 15m and 10m are suited mostly for the day time. A successful first trip, I'd say.

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Managed to get the coil added to the EFHW, so I've got now access to the 80 meters band. SWR is still a bit high, but under 3:1 - not complaining for now.

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ft8 20200614

New multiband antenna (EFHW from HFKits), new location, mucho mambo !

ft8 20200613

Start of a "dx-pedition"...

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ft8 2020601

Multiband FT8 decoding with simple whip antenna and Raspberry Pi 4.

ft8 2020509

FT8 on 30m with "window accordion" antenna.

FT8 on 20m at grayline.

FT8 on 20m for the day.

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qso ft8 20200201

Monitoring YO9EAT (last heard 2 mins ago). Automatic refresh in 4 minutes. Small markers are the 396 transmitters (show logbook) heard (distance chart) at YO9EAT (448 reports, 43 countries last 24 hours; 832 reports, 43 countries last week).