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Old November 14th 10, 04:23 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
dave dave is offline
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Default I put a 43' (13 m) vertical on my roof

dave wrote:
It looks bad ass and performs reasonably well. I still have to tune the
radials but I'm already getting improved coverage North to Europe with 4
short radials in a semicircle, 9' above ground. The first station I
autospotted was in Greenland on 21071 KHz.


Almost had an official gray line QSO with Croatia. I saw him, he saw me,
just not clean enough at the same time.

34.3, -118.4 21071 kHz bpsk31 30 Watts