After months of building and tinkering and receiving, I’ve finally started to transmit at my new QTH. Using 5 Watts from my Elecraft K2 I’ve made my first few PSK31 contacts on the 20m band using the horizontal loop I have strung around the perimeter of my loft (approximately 28m in circumference, matched by a battery operated SGC 211 auto-ATU). First contact was a very pleasing 3000km into Russia and seeing my callsign come back to me from that far away really brought back the magic of radio!
A quick snapshot of these contacts and I shall have to figure out a good way to embed this kind of map into the website…
…more contacts, another map!
Some more contacts made and a pattern may be emerging of single and double hop coverage…?
