Well took today off as annual leave. Went to a little park between
some nice hills by a river. I have operated here in past QRP/p
with good success.
I put my 20 meter dipole up between 2 trees just about 30 feet
high. The swr without tuner was about 1:1 in the middle of the
band.
I hooked up the LDG QRP autotuner. I worked some stations on 20
(band was horrible, even from home with my quad), I switched over
to 30 meters, the tunertuned it in less than 1 second. I worked a
couple of stations, had some chats (not just changing signal
reports). I next worked 40, also with the same results.
I checked, couldn't get it to tune 80, but that didn't surprise
me. The tuner had no problem tuning my small dipole with RG178
coax on 10, 15,30, 40 (I had my argosy so couldn't try 17 or 12).
Good field trip. found I needed to redo the end of the cox, so now
home and I am ready for a bigger test in the Smokys.. just have to
get there :-)
72
Jeff
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