First HF Contact

Thanks to Steve…

Steve AI6ZW offered to come over and take a look at what I had going on over here. Turns out I had one completely off band Antana and one that was “supposed to be”a 10 m antenna but in fact didn’t function in any useful way. My antenna tuner very old-school and actually as it turns out pretty good had basically skipped the track and needed to be cleaned up a little bit. Once it was established they what I really needed was a functioning antenna he was offered to let me use one of his for a while. So finally after weeks of effort I am now able to communicate on HF. Now really looking forward to setting up a proper dipole getting a better radio and of course moving on to a general license. Thank you so much do you for your help I was pretty stuck. Now after seeing him troubleshoot my system I opted to purchase a new nano vna. Its overwhelming and wonderful at the same time.

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