Tag: ocfd

Time for a new aerial, I’ve replaced my doublet with an OCFD

Amateur radio, Construction, HF
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Far support pole holding my OCFD

Earlier this year I decided it was time to replace my doublet with a new wire aerial.  There was nothing actually wrong with the doublet, I’ve worked plenty on it but it always galled me that I had a smarttuner connected to it which limited my transmit power.  I could only run 100W SSB or […]

Days 296, 297 and 298 – I finally worked T32C

Amateur radio, FM, HF, JT65, New DXCC, PSK, QSO365, SSB
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Day #296 was the day of the aerial work although before we started tearing my aerials down, I had a quick ‘banker’ QSO just in case things didn’t go well.  I worked JG1WNO, Hiro on 10m JT65 early in the morning. After all the work was done and my beam was up, my first QSO […]