{"id":54,"date":"2009-12-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/29\/operating-on-the-low-band\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T05:00:00","slug":"operating-on-the-low-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/29\/operating-on-the-low-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Operating on the low band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Low bands 40, 80 and 160-meter<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I just call these bands the Wire-antenna-bands because these low-bands are not as easy to explore as 10 to 30 meters, just because the size of the desired antennas. For 10 to 30 meters, I\u2019m using a Fritzel FB23 (FB33 within a few months) tribander Yagi and for the three WARC bands a Fritzel UFB13 triband rotary dipole. I\u2019m using a crank-up type tower of abt 25 meters height, which can be layed down in our garden.<\/p>\n<p>Working (QSO\u2019s to DX) on 40 to 160 meters is done with my homebrew wire dipole, 2 x 34 meters with 300 Ohm open line and an S-match tuner. This dipole almost in a straight and horizontal line, up 17 meters<\/p>\n<p>My interest and presence on the low bands grew slowly, since in 2004 it was possible to work on 80 Meters with my homebrew OCF-dipole. In August 2008 I started working on the Aktio40 award, what could explain my special interest in this band. After changing to my 2 x 25 meter dipole, end of 2009, I have worked 50 countries in the first year 2010 on 160M with just 100 Watts and no special receiving antennas.<\/p>\n<p>Why does a ham want\u2019s to operate on the low-bands?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s not easy, so not everybody can do it. So if you like solving difficulties?<\/li>\n<li>Nostalgic reasons, the old secret of Radio.<\/li>\n<li>The challenge on the low bands reminds of the early ham days, as a new ham.<\/li>\n<li>Ham-life begins after sundown.<\/li>\n<li>These bands are addictive.<\/li>\n<li>These bands are real (CW) Gentlemans\u2019 bands.<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s were you can test equipment and antennas.The lower the frequency, the higher the challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Working a new one on 160 is something different.<\/li>\n<li>The challenge and mystery of propagation.<\/li>\n<li>These low-band antennas are something special, to develop, make, see\u2026.use.<\/li>\n<li>The lower the frequency, the better the QSL?\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Low bands 40, 80 and 160-meter I just call these bands the Wire-antenna-bands because these low-bands are not as easy to explore as 10 to 30 meters, just because the size of the desired antennas. For 10 to 30 meters, I\u2019m using a Fritzel FB23 (FB33 within a few months) tribander Yagi and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}