Kirt Cathey, NH2GX, JG1FXZ » DX http://www.sysrisk.com Security, Electronics, and Tech from Japan Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:38:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Portable Windom – JP6VCH http://www.sysrisk.com/?p=126 http://www.sysrisk.com/?p=126#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:18:33 +0000 admin http://www.sysrisk.com/?p=126 On Saturday I went by one of the local ham shops to pickup a small SWR meter and some coaxial cable for QRP operations. I managed to get my whole QRP setup down to just about 10 inches of required storage space, but wanted to push the envelope a bit more, so I purchased some RG-58 cable to make things ‘smaller’.

Then I noticed another thing that affected operations, I am lugging around a dipole setup, but where I often operate at the top of mountains

Fuji sunrise from Kitadake at about 5:15 a.m. on 2009/09/22

Fuji sunrise from Kitadake at about 5:15 a.m. on 2009/09/22

, does not have a lot of trees to hang this from. So I remembered the J6VCH (I blogged on a couple posts ago… I think) while I was looking at the W-GR-540H Mini that was sitting on one of the display tables in the ham shop.
My tent is the yellow one on the far left toward the cliff.

My tent is the yellow one on the far left toward the cliff.

Little bright light went off in my head. This design would add a coil and a lightweight fiberglass pole to the collection, while greatly reducing the amount of required wire. In fact, weight of the fiberglass pole is much less than that of wire in equivalent bulk.
Well, here is the first DXpedition down to the Uraga Lighthouse yesterday with this new setup. Very portable, very lightweight setup….
The rig part - MFJ Cub - 40 Meters

The rig part - MFJ Cub - 40 Meters


The windom

The windom


The Window Tie-Up

The Windom Tie-Up


Now onto the solar panel backpack project.

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