Jussi, I have an old multistrand cable over 100ft long that runs directly underneath the Inverted L on the ground as one ground wire. Plus I live on 3 lots and I attached a ground wire to the chain link fence that runs around the property. Probably not the best but seems to work.
After seeing the the receive results of both pennants I maybe adding that. My TS2000 has a receive only port.
73
Mike kb5wbh
______________________________________________________________Mike, great work. That is amazing to me. I'm totally unfamiliar with 160. I tried a vertical on my city lot but I couldn't hear anyone.
Steve, N4JQQ
On 1/28/2025 5:54 PM, Michael Nettles wrote:
Dennis, only 100w here and I've worked 48 Countries so far using Inverted L antennas. Ya gotta get in there. Some are easy and some are harder to get.
73
Mike kb5wbh
On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 9:32 AM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Randy. The results were pretty amazing. Whatever anyone thinks of FT8, that mode plus tools like PSKReporter are excellent for evaluating things.
The pennant is among trees, but I thought I had a clear spot. As I pulled out the pointy end, small branches kept grabbing, and it ended up like a rough looking right triangle instead of a pennant. I tried to put the null where I thought the main noise source was (South), and it appears to work.
Two JA’s were copied this morning. Last night, most of Europe plus Kuwait came in. 34 countries in all since last night.
Now to see if I can work anything with just 100 watts!
I think it will also work very well on 80, so I’m going to try to get from 96 to 100 on that band.
Randy helped a lot with this project, and I appreciate it.
73,Dennis/RZ______________________________________________________________
On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM Randell Curtis, W5ZJ via ADXA <adxa@mailman.qth.net> wrote:
Thanks to Dennis, W5RZ for getting his pennant antenna up yesterday and reporting to pskreporter last night. I was excited when one of his first DX receptions was 9K2HM in Kuwait.______________________________________________________________
Check out what he received by plugging his call sign into pskreporter and setting the options to received on 160 for the past 24 hours. We both had a pretty good evening of receiving. While not as good as the larger receiving arrays, it does make a tremendous difference if you have noise issues. It will also work on 40 and 80. I used it on 40 a couple days ago to work Mt Athos on 40 early in the evening when my noise was high.
While checking my DXCC totals on 160, which is only 38 confirmed, I noticed that one of those was HI. I had worked the same station in HI twice over the last couple years, but he only confirmed QRZ. Apparently at some point he uploaded his log to LOTW. I was happy to see this because it finally finished WAS from 6-160 (no 60 meters).
I am going to celebrate with Dennis and his overnight success by have a cup of strong black coffee.
Have a great day and Good DXingRandy/W5ZJ
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