First HAM Radio Outing After... HWEF, Minion SDR.

Finally, freedom! I joined my friends at the Fort de la Revère, Col D'Eze, for some QRP SSB (low power voice) radio with my new QRPVer Minion SDR. I cut a half-wave wire for an end-fed antenna using a 49:1 transformer and also tried a 64:1 small (FT-82-43) transformer with a 20.25m wire (half-wave on 40m) in an inverted-V configuration using my Spiderbeam 12m fiberglass mast. I am now on vacation for a couple weeks so expect more field operations :-) I know you guys are going to ask about my hat, so it is a Stetson Bozeman. Please help this channel by joining at https://www.patreon.com/radioprepper
More on end-fed transformers and UNUNs: https://youtu.be/0zF7bDoqkG4

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