M0PZT
Sun 24th Jun 2012, 13:33
Galleywood Common is a spot of land just south of the home QTH - It's close to the A12 and not too far from town so very accessible. It's a popular place for walking the dog as well as kite-flying. Myself and Ben, M0GKY drove there on Saturday and did a spot of HF /P - Ben has the original FT-450 so we used that plus I brought my FT-817ND although we didn't do anything with that, preferring to operating solely on the main set. We were powered by Ben's new 20Ah lead-acid battery which was happily providing us with 50w of output for the 3 hours of operating we did.
The antenna was an Inverted-V with 40m+20m wires giving us a dual-band, single-feed, self-supporting arrangement.
http://www.m0pzt.com/galleywood_aerial_s.jpg http://www.m0pzt.com/galleywood_m0pzt_car_s.jpg
All the details here:
http://www.m0pzt.com/?galleywood
Plus, the Youtube video of the "highlights", too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ2mGub6mqw
The antenna was an Inverted-V with 40m+20m wires giving us a dual-band, single-feed, self-supporting arrangement.
http://www.m0pzt.com/galleywood_aerial_s.jpg http://www.m0pzt.com/galleywood_m0pzt_car_s.jpg
All the details here:
http://www.m0pzt.com/?galleywood
Plus, the Youtube video of the "highlights", too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ2mGub6mqw