[ADXA] Angola from the ground

[WB5JJJ]

Back in Jan 2012, I ordered a Mosley 11 element beam.  They said it would
take 8-10 weeks.  It came in 3 weeks later.  I picked a nice weekend and
assembled it on some shorty sawhorses on the ground.  Ran a coax inside the
house to see what it would hear.  SWR looked good and I proceeded to work a
couple ATNO DXCC's using "ground wave", I guess.  Put it on a mast and
dropped the mast through my 6' step ladder.  Worked a bunch of new
suff with it pointed South.  It was a few weeks later before I could get a
boom truck scheduled to get my old stuff down and this new monster up.  SWR
didn't change all that much from 0' to 32'.  But I did have a rotator now.


73's
George - WB5JJJ
HoIP - 100105
HH - 4969



On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 4:01 PM Scott Branyan <sbranyan at cox.net> wrote:

> So i spent part of this day weed eating and brush clearing where my new
> hex beam mast is going to be.
>
> In the meanwhile, my bucket holding the temp short mast upright
> deteriorated. Tried some other options for mounting none of which worked.
> So I just left the antenna on the ground for. Came inside checking bands
> and saw D2UY on 12m.
>
> Answered his CQ and completed the QSO! Hex beams on the ground are
> awesome!!! LOL
>
> 73,
> Scott/W5AAJ
>
>
>
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