More pics from the DX-pedition to Öland

Here is a link to some more pics from the trip to Öland yesterday.

The antenna we used was a home made 2 el beam,´They call these Jungle job. The elements are made from fishing poles and then a wire is taped to them. normal lengt for a 1/2 wave element. I think we ended up with each element being 5,15m or something like that. Boom was made from a fiberglass pole and extended with a fishing pole, Reflector was cut 3% longer than driven element. The reflector was bent forward towards the driven in a V-shape. We had good f/b and side rejection even if we did no job whatsoever to optimize.

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