Friday, March 10, 2017

My newest antenna at Area 57 aka 125 Contest Ln An 8el Sterba Curtain Array

It's just a wire antenna
But it has an estimated 8db of gain over a dipole
Mine is ladder line fed from a home made 9:1 Balun
It appears to work much better than my 20m ground mounted vertical that has 32 radials
Very few trees here and what we do have are short scrub brushes
So I installed two surplus Telephone poles

The LA QSO PArty is coming..........

LOUISIANA QSO PARTY March 18, 2017
14:00 UTC, March 18, 2017 to 02:00 UTC, March 19, 2017 
(Nine AM to nine PM CDT Saturday, March 18, 2017)
Sponsored by
LOUISIANA CONTEST CLUB
Louisiana Qso Party – March 18th 2017