[SSDN] Hex DX! First Long-Haul Contact with the New Hex Beam - VK4KA on 20 SSB

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Hex DX! First Long-Haul Contact with the New Hex Beam - VK4KA on 20 SSB

Posted: 16 Jul 2022 08:03 AM PDT
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/07/first-long-haul-dx-with-new-hex-beam.html


This morning at around 1345 UTC I had the chance to try out my new Hex beam
on some "down under" DX. 9,548 miles, 15,222 km The DX Spot page told
me that VK4KA was on 14.255 MHz. QRZ.com said the beam heading for me was
270 degrees. He was quite strong. He was working a fairly huge pileup,
going through callsign numbers. He was on the 6s when I tuned in, so I had
some time to test the Hex beam. Above you can see a rough front-to-back
test. Below you can see a comparison with my old 75 meter doublet.
A few minutes after the second video, in spite of the pileup I called VK4KA
and made the contact. I congratulated him on his homebrew Moxon.
https://www.qrz.com/db/VK4KA
It was fun to reach Australia with the new antenna.