HAM Radio

/ shellerina

Ray is an FCC Extra Class amateur radio operator and ARRL Registered Instructor.

Today he fired up his Icom 7100 transmitter and an end-fed long wire antenna to see what he could work.

Icom 7100 control head in the salon.
Antenna support structure.
End-fed long wire.
Wire goes from Icom coupler to bow via 24 foot f/g telescoping tower.
Icom AH-4 Tuner or “antenna coupler” on starboard rail on fly bridge aft sun deck.
Kiss SSB counterpoise. https://www.kiss-ssb.com… Seems to work well over fresh water or salt water.

The wire I had was several feet longer than I needed, so I took a piece of PVC left over from a previous project and made a coil at the end.

DX Stations worked:

T77LA in San Marino (a sovereign micro-state inside of Italy.)

SC5GB in the Dodecanese (Greek islands near Turkey in the SE Aegean Sea.)

PA1WRB in the Netherlands

9A3SMS in Croatia

EA8DMZ & EA8CVX in the Canary Islands

HK3C in Columbia

GI0D in Northern Ireland

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Domestic Stations worked:

K9UIM in IL

WB0VZK in IA

N0JQX in AL

KY4KP in GA

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