I’m a little late getting the Christmas Tree lights installed on our pine trees in the back yard, but my friend John, WA1ABI, announced he was all ready with his tree lights, and expected to make a QSO with Rich, KC1ARO, today at 17:00 local time on 3.513 MHz
In desperation, I ran 150 feet of RG8X from my K3 onto our deck. I had a 100 foot string of LED lights wrapped around a run of about 30 feet of deck railing — about 12-feet off the ground. I took both leads of the lights and clip-leaded them to the center conductor of the coax. The shield of the coax was attached to a 8-foot run of 1/2″ braid that was attached below the deck to my station ground (counterpose system of a 1/4 wavelength wire for 160m to 10m stapled to the house siding about 6 feet off the ground + three 8-foot ground rods).
I recorded a few seconds of both KC1ARO, and WA1ABI transmitting so their signal levels on the P3 and S-Meter could be seen. After this I joined them both with some signals of my own.
John was S9 to S9+10 (MOV format): wa1abi
Rich was S5 to S7 (MOV format): kc1aro
