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After a long hiatus, I’m back on the air. QTH: Clarksburg, West Virginia, Harrison County, locator EM99tg. Primary mode is digital. Antenna is a 40 meter vertically oriented triangular loop, which gives good performance on 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters.
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I’m also working with my daughter, KC7BNH, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to help get her back on the air as well.
After an interruption in ham radio activities and blog entries, I am back on the air, more or less. The interruption was due to several months of planning and executing a move to Guatemala and then getting settled here in my new digs and setting up a basic radio shack. At the moment I am only using a 26 foot vertical wire supported by a tree so my signal is not very good but I’m out there on PSK and Hellschreiber. You can usually find me evening and nights from 7070 to 7074, signing TG9/KW2P. Give me a call.
Once I collect the materials I plan to put up a 270 foot vertical loop. I have some tall trees here that will support a vertically oriented 80m full wave loop. I’ve had both vertical and horizontal loops of that size and they worked great so I expect good results, especially in the tropics where QRN can be a problem. The loop should improve things drastically but getting the materials down here takes some doing.
73 de Phil, TG9/KW2P
40 meters was being ornery tonight at net time of 9 PM EST. Here in West Virginia I had no copy, no signal at all on net control or anyone else except I had about a 50 percent copy on WB2HTO. I saw the name Leslie go by, and I believe I saw a QTH in AL. At 9:35 PM EST I checked in again and the band had greatly improved. I had net control, about 90 percent copy on WB2HTO but work got in the way and I did not have time to check in.
I’ll be there next week unless work overrides my plans. Thanks to W8LEW for running the net.
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