Living in apartments for the past six years I haven’t been on the air very much. When I did operate it was portable mainly at the Eisenhower Recreation Center picnic shelter getting only a few hours air time and subject to weather. To get more air time and reward myself, I decided to try a Magnetic Loop in my living room. Just think of it as modern art!
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My 41 Inch square loop, 3/4 Copper Pipe with a slide trombone capacitor and a GAMMA match.
My brag is in the past days on FT8 I have worked 76 countries with my little loop. I believe it helps that the loop is quieter and 15M seemed to be better than I recalled.
73
Brad KN9B
KN9B DXCC Progress 29-Nov-2022
Band = ANY, Mode = FT8, DXCC Status = 76 QSOs / 52 Confirmed
11/18 Friday (setup and testing, first timer on FT8)
1 EA8 Canary Is
2 K United States
11/20 Sunday
3 OE Austria
4 CU Azores
5 VE Canada
6 HH Haiti
7 I Italy
8 KP4 Puerto Rico
9 IS Sardinia
10 PZ Surinam
11/21 Monday
11 CO Cuba
12 HI Dominican Rep
13 OH Finland
14 XE Mexico
15 OM Slovakia
11/22 Tuesday
16 LU Argentina
17 HC Ecuador
18 DL Germany
19 JA Japan
20 HP Panama
21 CX Uruguay
11/23 Wednesday (15M was wide open)
22 EA Spain
23 CT Portugal
24 ON Belgium
25 F France
26 HA Hungary
27 PA Netherlands
28 G England
29 HK Colombia
30 OA Peru
31 YV Venezuela
32 GM Scotland
33 ZF Cayman Is
34 PY Brazil
35 CP Bolivia
36 PJ2 Curacao
37 TI Costa Rica
11/24 Thursday (Thanksgiving, cooking with radio action)
38 KL Alaska
39 E7 Bosnia-Hercegovina
40 OK Czech Republic
41 ES Estonia
42 GJ Jersey
43 YL Latvia
44 V5 Namibia
45 GI No Ireland
46 SP Poland
47 UA9 Russia (AS)
48 UA Russia (EU)
49 S5 Slovenia
50 J6 St Lucia
51 SM Sweden
52 HB Switzerland
53 KP2 Virgin Is
54 GW Wales
11/25 Friday (no shopping but a great 15M day)
55 OZ Denmark
56 9A Croatia
57 EI Ireland
58 LZ Bulgaria
59 YU Serbia
60 EV Belarus
61 EA9 Ceuta & Melilla
62 VP2E Anguilla
63 ZS So Africa
64 V3 Belize
65 CT3 Madeira Is
66 C6 Bahamas
67 8P Barbados
68 VK Australia
69 T7 San Marino
11/26 Saturday (lost a day for Radio on the Square)
70 CE Chile
71 FG Guadeloupe
11/27 Sunday (long day chasing weak signals)
72 LA Norway
73 HR Honduras
74 UA2 Kaliningrad
75 9K Kuwait
11/28 Monday (chased Romania & Greece for hours & failed, got Luxembourg on first call @ -26 dB)
76 LX Luxembourg