This post is a combination of a review of the MiniVNA Tiny analyzer and the results of using it to test another set of 6 Meter, 3 Element beams I built. I recently added the new MiniVNA Tiny to my lineup of tools here in the KK4ICE shack and workshop. I must say that I […]
I used the IFR 1600 and the return loss bridge to run a sweep of the 6 Meter beams I recently built, and here are the results. On a 10 MHz wide sweep, the peak resonant frequency shows up at 51.2739 MHz. At that frequency the analyzer is seeing -83.7 dBm coming back through the […]
There was apparently a sweet — albeit brief — opening on 6 Meters this afternoon. I worked HC5VF in Ecuador at 20:48 UTC. There was also a nice opening yesterday on 10-Meters, during which I worked EA6AZ in Spain and OM3TWM in Kosice, Slovakia. Here’s the eQSL card for the QSO to Slovakia: