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Although I’m a sporadic radio user I’ve had a lot of assignments to do recently and that has meant that I inadvertantly turn on the rig by accident
The upside is that I’ve had a laod of QSO’s with EA stations recently with the furthest being in the canaries. I can safely say that the yagi has been a worthwhile investment

50mhz is just one of those ‘get it or forget it’ bands. Either you love it or just can’t be bothered with it. A while ago i bought a 5 ele yagi from trident to try my luck and then promptly moved house. The result was that the antenna sat in my garage for a couple of years and I didn’t get a chance to use it. This weekend I had a few spare minutes and rigged it up on my decking so that it was blocked in just about every direction but southwest through to north west.

After some scanning through the band I cam across a few EA stations and fired through a few responses as they were a strong 59. EA1GE responded and my 6m career spluttered back into life. A good 1000 miles with a lashed together set up gave me a smile and although short lived the Es also allowed a good 59 on the CS5BLA beacon.