Operating
W on 6m FT8
I could see the only one slot of the US station on 6m FT8 in this morning. It seems very hard for me to work with the US on 6m legacy modes by my simple dipole antenna.
WW CW Contest 2024
I used a GP antenna at balcony in WW CW Contest 2024. It works for all bands like 3.5 - 50 MHz, but it is easy to get urban noise due to vertical type antenna. So that, I tried to set a small square aluminium film to be earth it. Then, it worked very well, […]
Big open with EU on 6m band
I made more than 150 QSOs with EU stations on 6 meters band CW on 26th Oct 2024. It was a fantastic CONDX on 6 meters band. I just use a very simple home made wire antenna at balcony like this picture. So far, totally more than 1,700 QSOs on 6 meters band have been […]
Result of 2024 WPX CW
CW sound recorded by RU0LL on 15m band. (Thanks RU0LL for recording, courtesy of QSORDER Search)
A new antenna for HF bands has been set up.
I set up a new wired antenna for HF bands, especially to focus on WPX CW Contest.It is composed by 1x 1:49 balun, 1x 20 meters long wire, 2x 1.5 meters long wires and 1x isolator.I set the feeding line around 6 meters high from the roof top of building.This antenna is very unique, because […]
Antennas
My main antenna is a multi feed type horizontal 1/2 wave full sized wires for 80 meters and 40 meters bands. The feed line is connected with each wire directly without using a 1:1 balun. One more antenna is a simple 1/2 wave full sized wire for 6 meters bands. They are facing to the […]