InfoSec, Electronics, and Japan
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The Portable Windom – JP6VCH
Posted on September 27th, 2009 No commentsOn 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
, 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.
Fuji sunrise from Kitadake at about 5:15 a.m. on 2009/09/22
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.
My tent is the yellow one on the far left toward the cliff.
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 windom
The Windom Tie-Up
Now onto the solar panel backpack project.
