Making contacts on an experimental Ham Radio Antenna.

In this video, Carl (M0SZT) modifies an End-Fed Halfwave (EFHW) Antenna by adding a common mode choke to his antenna system.

Carl says "This is a great antenna!"

This modification will be helpful in SOTA/POTA operations.

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Here are some comments from Carl (M0SZT):

I get out for the night in the Land Rover to try out a new portable ham radio antenna and cook a curry. Many thanks to Chris M0VUE from radio-stuff.com https://www.radio-stuff.com/ for gifting me the antenna I tried out on this trip. He calls it his experimental antenna which is an EFHW but with a common mode choke built in. The antenna is a prototype but well made and easy to set up, I was very pleased to make contacts on 5watts and more on 90 watts. Sometimes you get a good feeling with an antenna, when you have confidence that you can break pile ups, this has that on 20m. This explains the antenna a bit more: https://www.radio-stuff.com/post/efhw... The second antenna is the Slidewinder coil and tripod from M1ECC antennas https://www.m1ecc-antennas.co.uk/ another fantastic UK based company making portable antenna gear. The D10 wire and antenna poe is from another UK based antenna producer Dx Commander. https://www.m0mcx.co.uk/ Locations are based around Buxton in the Peak District. 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Setting up ham radio station 08:27 Contacts! on the new antenna 11:37 Slidewinder coi antenna 15:03 Sunset and cooking