Cindy and I went to the DFW Hamfest in Lewisville and it was a good Ham flea market, as it has been in the past. In addition to some odds and ends, I got a gently used Hustler 5-BTV 80 thru 10 meter HF vertical antenna for Father’s Day!
As it is easy to assemble and not much tuning to worry about and it breaks down to short pieces of aluminum pipe and enclosed coils I am going to use it for the FT8 station at Field Day. I put it up in my backyard and it works much much better than the mobile whip on a tripod.
Instead if a bunch of ground radials I am using some chicken wire! You can see the setup in the picture if you look carefully.
I am going to put the antenna on the rectangle of grass on the southwest corner of the pavillion as I think that spot is currently not spoken for, see picture.
CU there!
73,
Charles WA5VHU
