Another successful check-in into the Arkansas Razorback Net tonight with the rain pipe antenna (which I've always read would not work when it rains, which it did - and it still worked...). Maybe largely thanks to Ed N3QL who always seems to be able to fish my signal out from the mud when no one else hears me :)
My station: /P, 10W, rain pipe antenna on multistory building, counterpoise on balcony: 26.3' (= 8m), SWR 3.3
73 de Marcus
Another successful login to report on May 21, 2013 at 2335 UTC; dry weather, sun shining.
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DeleteAnother successful login to the Razorback Net on April 22nd with the rainpipe antenna; this time surprisingly with an SWR of 1:1 although I used the same 8m counterpoise. Weather was again dry.
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