52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 12: Make a contact with an "unusual" antenna.
Challenge for 2025-03-17 - 2025-03-23:
Category: 📻 - Difficulty: 🟢
Make a contact with an "unusual" antenna.
Be creative! Load up your bed springs, a light bulb, a gutter...
Toots mentioning this challenge
| Date | User | User score | Status | Toot summary & link |
|---|
| 2025-03-09 13:39:00 | ian@mastodon.radio | 12 | Working on it... | I have some big car battery clamps that will be ideal for HC12 "Make a contact using an unusual antenna". The other end I have terminated with PowerPoles, so the question is... Do I chop this, or do I make an *extremely cursed* PL-259 to PowerPole cable?? |
| 2025-03-09 15:37:13 | n8dmt@mastodon.radio | 16 | Success! | #HamChallenge2025 HC12S Make a contact on an unusual antenna. How far can two Yaesu VX8-DR HT’s communicate on L1 (20 mW) transmit power with dummy load antennas? Turns out the answer is about 12 feet on UHF. Was surprised that the shielding was that good…SuccessfulTwo-Way QSO (N8DMT & N8DKK)446.050 MHzL1 (0.02 W, 20mW)Distance ~10 feetSquelch Level 0 (open squelch)Antenna: SMA to BNC-F Adapter with DIY BNC-M dummy load#HamRadio #DummyLoadComms |
| 2025-03-20 21:48:41 | ei7ijb@mastodon.radio | 5 | Working on it... | I have an idea for the 12th challenge, 'Make a contact with an "unusual" antenna’. Let me see if that will work #hamchallenge HC12 @hamchallenge |
| 2025-03-22 17:40:47 | ian@mastodon.radio | 12 | Working on it... | This week is "unusual antenna" week for the Ham Challenge. Sadly despite my best efforts this afternoon I was not able to manage a contact using either my rotary washing line, or a literal wet piece of string, but I had fun trying!The full write-up of this, plus the previous three weeks' challenges, is here: https://ianrenton.com/blog/52-week-ham-radio-challenge-roundup-weeks-9-12/HC12 |
| 2025-03-23 21:51:07 | DC4LW@social.darc.de | 13 | Success! | Just had a look on the website and found out, that my HC12S from three weeks ago did not count. It seems, that the bot can count one week number only. But I already completed this challenge in https://social.darc.de/@DC4LW/114093167045604116 😄 #hamchallenge |
| 2025-04-01 16:36:35 | pg4i@mastodon.radio | 10 | Success! | #hamchallenge HC12SToday I made a QSO with an unusual antenna (Nigel M0NGN on 7 MHz). It is a linear loaded vertical with 2 radials. The radiator is 7 meters long and consist of 450 Ohm ladder shorted at the top. This runs along a 10 meter Spiderbeam mast, so the feed point is at 3 meters high. |
52 week ham radio challenge: Home