Listening to you on 14330 right now, congrats on making it to the German North Sea coast with (did I get that right?) 6W... into a YouLoop antenna which pretty much sucks on 20m, positioned indoors in the attic of a house that got the roof covered in solar panels just last week, with the antenna oriented more or less N-S so the panels and inverters cause don't make such a horrible racket on all bands on top of the -90dBm wideband noise floor. Tl;dr, it's a miracle that I heard you. :)
@@2e0hpi Awesome! "Right by the North Sea" may have given you the 10dB needed to punch through the noticeable attenuation of the panels and rails on the roof for full copy on you most of the time (some QSB). I'm several 100m beyond the 10 lambda "enhancement zone" of the coast so that didn't help so much with the levels on my side either. 🙂
Nice job Carl, the more i see videos of the FT891 the more i want one, looks and sounds like a great transceiver.
Nice one Carl.
Good to see you at Spennymoor 😄
Yes Jon nice to see you today
Listening to you on 14330 right now, congrats on making it to the German North Sea coast with (did I get that right?) 6W... into a YouLoop antenna which pretty much sucks on 20m, positioned indoors in the attic of a house that got the roof covered in solar panels just last week, with the antenna oriented more or less N-S so the panels and inverters cause don't make such a horrible racket on all bands on top of the -90dBm wideband noise floor. Tl;dr, it's a miracle that I heard you. :)
@13DKA-kg2fz yes that is correct , Yaesu FT818 6w today with EFHW 20.5m wire right by the North Sea
@@2e0hpi Awesome! "Right by the North Sea" may have given you the 10dB needed to punch through the noticeable attenuation of the panels and rails on the roof for full copy on you most of the time (some QSB). I'm several 100m beyond the 10 lambda "enhancement zone" of the coast so that didn't help so much with the levels on my side either. 🙂