Strong Europeans on 20m and 17m with Mini Whip

Hello,

still testing Mini Whip. Caught some strong Europeans on 20m and 17m today.

LA8ZAA DE 9A1CPE on 20m:


CQ DE UA3KA on 17m:

Some older NDB lists

Hello,

I just found some older NDB lists on my harddisc. The NDB almost received with YAESU FRG-100 and long wire.

Some NDB

Yesterday I hunted some NBD with my Mini Whip (another test for it) in a quick hour.

Click on planes for cw screenshot.

Please download DE8MSH_NDB.kmz here...

My Honeycan Mini Whip :)

Q'n'D mast assembly... :)

My VLF setup

After I started to test my Mini Whip antenna I remembered that I own the Refcom FC-VLF converter. I didn't use that converter until today because I hadn't any antenna for low frequencies.

But now I got my Mini Whip. So I decided to connect the Refcom FC-VLF to my YAESU FRG-100 (in DRM mode ~10kHz wide filtering instead of 3kHz) and the Mini Whip to the converter. The Refcom FC-VLF sets the vlf frequencies up to 14,000 MHz.

This setup works very well with fequencies lower than 400 kHz. With Mini Whip I can read from 10 kHz to 400 kHz. So I tested frequencies lower than 50 kHz (the YEASU FRG-100 itself can't get under 50 kHz without converter). I tuned to 14,023 kHz and... Wow! It works!!!


Some utils anywhere 24kHz...


European timesignals and utils anywhere 60kHz...

The Mini Whip is great for receiving vlf! I can't wait to get a cw signal from SAQ / Grimeton, realy.

Me too: Mini Whip by PA0RDT

Hello,

just finished my new project: the Mini Whip by PA0RDT.







The case is a honeycan (it was empty before building the antenna ;) No need to eat the whole honey ;)

BTW: This was a very fast quick and dirty build ;) But it seems to work, anyway.