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ORAWA01 · 10th Sep 2019, 6:54 pm

Great posts David and Tanuki. Enjoyed reading them thank you.

I have seen the KW107 atu many times in the rallies and eBay as well, but passed them rather foolishly. It was because maybe I associated them with the KW2000 valved tranceiver. All the KW2000s I have seen, none of them worked. They all needed work done to them.

I also read about GM3OXX. Very interesting radio and engineering story.

When I was very active on HF many years ago - it was early 1990s, I used to run Inverted L at one time, and it did make many good contacts on all bands. But then it was the Sun spot maximum time, when dummyload with 5W could work some strong European stations. Every morning 20m was full of VKs and JAs. At night North Americans would come on with vengeanes warming up the bands all night with their multi kilowatt amps and multi element beams until the dawn.

I got my DXCC within a few months with indoor dipole and quarter size inverted L. The good old days.

Now? I heard nothing but hash on 20m all day, and when I heard ON4s and F5s, I felt they were some exotic DX.

I thought it is time to cut a proper LF band antenna.

10th Sep 2019, 6:54 pm	#12
ORAWA01 Hexode Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Stirlingshire, UK. Posts: 407	Re: Antenna recommendation for 40 and 80M bands Great posts David and Tanuki. Enjoyed reading them thank you. I have seen the KW107 atu many times in the rallies and eBay as well, but passed them rather foolishly. It was because maybe I associated them with the KW2000 valved tranceiver. All the KW2000s I have seen, none of them worked. They all needed work done to them. I also read about GM3OXX. Very interesting radio and engineering story. When I was very active on HF many years ago - it was early 1990s, I used to run Inverted L at one time, and it did make many good contacts on all bands. But then it was the Sun spot maximum time, when dummyload with 5W could work some strong European stations. Every morning 20m was full of VKs and JAs. At night North Americans would come on with vengeanes warming up the bands all night with their multi kilowatt amps and multi element beams until the dawn. I got my DXCC within a few months with indoor dipole and quarter size inverted L. The good old days. Now? I heard nothing but hash on 20m all day, and when I heard ON4s and F5s, I felt they were some exotic DX. I thought it is time to cut a proper LF band antenna. Last edited by ORAWA01; 10th Sep 2019 at 7:02 pm.