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I activated Greenbelt Park (US-0668) on Saturday. By half an hour of operating, I was on my third antenna. I started (or tried to start) with a magloop, but a gust of wind knocked it over and broke the base. I then tried using a very small loaded whip, but after 10 minutes of calling CQ POTA without...

Thanks. I’m planning to set it relatively low. My trusdx rigs’ sidetone is tied to the overall volume, so when I turn up the volume to dig out a weak signal the Sidetone is painful!

73,
Mike, KL7MJ

I know that this thread has been dormant for a while, but after Thomas announced that WA3RNC was shutting down his operation I hurried over and bought a TR35 kit. I'm looking forward to building it and taking it out for POTA activations this spring. Is there a TR35 or Penntek mailing list? I couldn'...

Power isn't as important as a good antenna and a good rig. When I was first licensed, I floundered for a couple of months with a Johnson Viking Ranger II transmitter and a gigantic blue receiver (I can't remember what make). My antenna was a dipole strung between my house and the house behind us at ...

What is the part that you need? I have built one of these on my own using parts from the local hardware store. The only tricky part (for me) was drilling the hole in the end caps - you really need a drill press do get the holes straight and centered.

I have an EFRW in my back yard that I run a length of coax out to through the back door. I covered the unun box with a ziplock baggie (poked a small hole in one corner for the wire, and a larger hole in the other corner for the tie off - the radial and the coax come out the open bottom of the baggie...

I saw a link to qrpbuilder.com on a mailing list. The website and the products look very similar to qrpguys.com
Are the two sites related?

The real question is, "what is the rest of your system?" What kind of radio are you using, and do you have/plan to have an antenna tuner? Like Brian said, a 17m and 30m are going to play well together on an EFHW unless it's built for 80m (multiples of 3.5 MHz). If you want just a 40/30/17 ...

The lesson learned is to always have a partner (who runs slower than you do) watching for bears while you operate!

Can we be part of more than one category? I have my older radios gathering dust in the basement, but several newer QRP rigs that I try use as often as I can.