[PPRAANet] 40 Meter Comm test

[Jim KD0KQL]

All,

  Thanks to all the peer pressure, I have put up my UGLY 40 Meter NVIS antenna.  It's 2 legs are cut for 1/4 wave, it has a 1:1 BALUN and is mounted at 15 ft in the center and 2 ft at the leg ends.  Pointed 30 deg and 210 deg.  As soon as I first tried it there was a station in Grand Junction.  Very unusual.  By the time I was ready to use it, he was gone but I did make an FT-8 contact in Greenwood WI shortly after.  Seems to work well.  Still mostly East Coast stations showing up, but the "doughnut hole" appears to be a little active as well.  This should be fun and informative.
  See you on the 2 Meter net at 8:00 tonight if I don't forget.

73
Jim
KD0KQL