I didn't get to play in the FQP but I did get a detailed tour of Greg KA9WPG's awesome flagpole antenna installation and I left with all the requisite info/components, etc.

Arriving back home antenna-less, I could stand it no more and put a 20m HamStick up (stealthily) on 15 feet a push-up mast behind the house and worked Puerto Rico, Ireland and Turkey on CW with the IC-705.

Thanks much to Greg, Art, Ken and others who emailed me with flagpole antenna info. Now to get started on my own...

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