Last Tuesday I had the chance to spend a couple of hours outside in a location where I could do some portable QRP HF. The setup is my usual FT817, end-fed thrown over a tree branch, homemade tuner and CW paddle.
Many flies joined me on the table and many mosquitoes enjoyed my ankles. I had 3 QSOs on 20m, a local friend, a French station in CW and a Belgian in SSB.
I might want to change the capacitor in the EFHW tuner and use a more robust box since the antenna wire pulls quite hard. Weight is not an issue since this location is 50m from the parking lot.
