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Hello there,
I am vacationing in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at a Mahony clan rendezvous. Ten of us are in a rented house with various gangs driving down and visiting.
I have put up a NorCal doublet on the elevated back deck, 22 feet per leg of gauge 22 speaker wire. One leg goes to a second story window and the other leg goes through a fork in a tree in the back yard. The center support is a 20-foot telescoping graphite fishing pole. I am using my FT-817 with the Z817 tuner.
I am finding 20 meters so crowded that I can't distinguish a single voice. On 40 meters, I have been hearing people all over the eastern U.S. I haven't yet managed to talk to anybody yet. I need to learn to pounce when an opportunity opens, instead of pausing politely to see whether someone else has been waiting. Pounce, Rhona, pounce!
I am so impressed by your antenna experiments!
Take good care!
~~Rhona, K6RHO
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Rhona Mahony
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Rhona Sounds like your station is ready for action.

HF was overcrowded this past weekend with the IARU test.
If you're curious about how your station is performing, especially at QRP levels, I find the competition weekends are great for the reason
that all the big guns are using very capable receiving antennas.

Don't be afraid to jump into a contest weekend, and interpret the 5nn report to mean that your signal was heard by the other side.

The thrill is when the other side=dx station 6000 miles away. Proving to yourself the magic of propagation - allowing QRP levels to propagate around the earth like that.

73, - have a fun vacation.
deon k6wh