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Beside some other little tryouts this is probably the first
antenna that I built myself. It works without a tuner (depending
on the actual position of the antenna).

My first contact with this antenna was into Israel (~2629 km) with my
older FT-891. It was contest time and I actually replied to a contest
station because I thought nobody would hear me because of my crappy
antenna but I found myself picked up by that contest station from Israel.

The resulting report of _59_ would not mean anything but at least I knew
the antenna was working just fine.

I got a SWR of about 1:1 (1.02) when I measured the antenna in an L
configuration -- approx. 1-1.5m above the ground.