Up in a beach house on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, I put the SST on 20 meters using an End-fed Half Wave antenna and QRP-guys tuner. Conditions were pretty bad, with solar storms causing disturbances in propagation, but I did manage to get picked up by RBN skimmers in Iceland, Germany and Italy (see below). And I had one nice QRP-QRP contact with DK4AN.
I was having trouble getting out until I used the oar to raise the central portion of the half wave antenna -- that's where the current is.
Thanks again to Bob KD4EBM for sending me the SST.
Very nice, my friend.
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