[Lowfer] Copy WE6XGR fine on a VHF a Rubber Duck

[Michael Sapp]

Bob: Your 499.5 kHz signal is "in and out" on my 2 meter Rubber Duck antenna, but your doing fine on the 6M Rubber Duck......

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Oh, I did turn the FT-817 IPO preamp back on.....

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That contraption the Rubber Duck is screwed to is a homebrew 50 to 450 ohm coaxial isolation transformer. 

Heath used an SO-239 for the Hi-Z Antenna input to the converter.....it was a practical way to keep the leads

short and shielded......I'll let it run like that on WSPR for awhile, perhaps more useful than a string on +12 SNRs from EN90xn

I had a good laugh......


73  Mike wa3tts