HB0/DL2OBO
Carsten Thomas Dauer
Portable in Liechtenstein,

After our first night in HB0 Liechtenstein, I installed my first antenna. It is a 12.5m fishing rod, so the feed point for this 40m vertical is at 2m, also the 8 elevated radials are two meters above snow. The second antenna followed the next day. This time I put up a 20m tall vertical for 80m. It has also 8 elevated radials about 2m above ground. The third antenna followed after the next sunrise. It is a 28m tall vertical, build with 15m tapered aluminum tubes plus an additional 13m fishing rod (with an attached wire). For this antenna, I used four elevated radials, each about 5 to 8m above ground. On all three verticals, I used DX Engineering Feedline Current Chokes (FCC). My antennas were set up in the front of the house, so I needed at least 40m of coax cable. My 160m 28m tall vertical antenna was 80m away in a big pine tree. The FCC provided excellent feedline decoupling, and compensated for a less than optimal ground system. Please visit: http://www.dl2obo.de/pages/hb0january2010/hb0january2010.html for the full story and more pictures, videos and soundfiles.