I have been searching for a reliable FT8-portable option for over a year. Purists will ask why, and my answer is that I am still CW illiterate, and there are just some times I am on a summit and it takes me over an hour of calling CQ to get my 4 contacts (SOTA). FT8 […]
Traps: An experimental SOTA vertical triband.
Traps are a divisive topic, with many hams saying they are inefficient, even though many commercial multi-band antennas use them. Whether they are inefficient or not, with portable operating there are many kinds of ways to measure efficiency: Radiated power (or how much power is lost in the antenna)Footprint (or how much space you need […]