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Not content with a small 9:1 unun and trying different bands plus a bit of FT8, I decided to beef up my random length antenna. I bought two FT240-43 toroids (already conplemplating replacing them with 52’s), a reel of enamelled 16AWG wire and some other bits and bobs, and set to work. I stacke...

It started as a self-test project; create my own antenna as an experiment in learning some basic theory and dusting off some hand skills. I started off with the following main components: In addition, I had an old outdoor heavy-duty junction box which I intended to cut up to make the vertical part f...