Background: Over the last week, I removed 6 huge stumps in the side yard, including the one I had my hexbeam mounted on. See pics. They will make good tie offs for sloper wires until I ultimately get rid of them!

But last night about 10:00 local with the hexbeam sitting in a bucket on the ground, I was seeing VU with a -9 sig and had an FT8 QSO on 17m with Robert on Rodriguez Is.--10,000 miles! I love this antenna. LOL

73,

Scott/W5AAJ