Not long ago I ordered this antenna from the KC8YBC etsy store. Today I finally got it strung up in the backyard between two painter poles so that I could tune it. I’m planning to use it for some POTA activity near my QTH. Something I hadn’t noticed until recently was that with the changes to POTA listings, quite a few places within about 10 miles of my house are now possible to activate. Between this and the x6200, it’s looking like my POTA kit may be getting a little more compact!
The Xiegu X6200 arrived this morning, a few days earlier than was projected when it shipped. So far I like it. I’ve made a couple of contacts to POTA stations this afternoon over my lunch break, both at 5W and 8W, using the built in microphone and using the handheld one. Except for band conditions being rather bad, I had no issues.
After the work day ended, I grabbed the 9:1 end fed “random” wire antenna, the 10m mast, some feedline, and headed to the back yard.
The internal tuner had no issues with the 9:1 from 40 to 10m. Even with the display brightness turned down as far as it could go, the screen was readable in direct sunlight.
I have a sneaky suspicion that this is going to turn into my default POTA rig. We’ll see. I may even try to activate a park tomorrow night…
