[PPRAANet] POTA Q

[Tim and Laurie Ham2Ham]

I'm just catching up on these emails, sorry for the delay.

I wanted to add that I've been able to get NM, AZ, UT all on 20M quite 
well from my home QTH using our horizontal sky loop. It's in the trees 
about 40' off the ground, 300 ft circumference, fed with ladder line 
into our balanced line tuner. We use an Icom-7100, 100w. I'd have to say 
I've not particularly been trying to get these neighboring states, and 
not necessarily hunting POTAs.  I probably could add WY and KS due to 
the omnidirectional nature of the loop. And, as in a previous post, I 
agree that there probably aren't that many people doing POTA in those 
states.

For POTA and portable activations, my husband (Tim KØCKR) has designed 
what he calls a "Pyramid Doublet System". It's designed to put up easily 
(the two of us get it up when camping in about 45 minutes), and to use a 
smaller footprint than our home loop while getting similar results. We 
have it on a 33' telescoping mast when out camping. We are able to tune 
this doublet from 6M to 80M. Our thought is that it could also be used 
in a city backyard, with its smaller footprint, although there could be 
city RF and local structures causing issues. He has put together a 
document about this antenna system. You can see photos of it and a link 
to the document on my QRZ page (KØLTH). Last summer I was able to get my 
first South Africa contact using this portable setup at 10,000 ft.

Both of these antennas work very well at reaching local (Colorado) folks 
and nets during the NVIS times of the day.

73 de Laurie KØLTH

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Laurie KØLTH & Tim KØCKR

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