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Photography by [[User:Wiggler]], used with permission.
Photography by [[User:Wiggler|Vic (M6BOK)]], used with permission.

Revision as of 13:50, 4 June 2013

The Hacktenna is a random length wire (with random length being around 20m) hanging about 1m above the fence, and insulated from the transmission line by a ferrite choke with five loops of wire. It was build by the Ham Radio hackers on the 1st of June 2013.

Orientation is roughly N/S, so we hope to be able to communicate on the E/W direction (which leaves out Africa, unfortunately).

We did two way contact with Italy, and heard several stations from Russia, Germany, and the UK.


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Photography by Vic (M6BOK), used with permission.