I know perilously little about short wave radio and I still find your content interesting - a sign of a good instructor. Be safe over there!

Hello. Welcome back, to European HF area. Hope to catch you on the air this weekend. Thanks for a videos.

Well done Walt. I enjoy seeing the things that interest you....Thanks a bunch..😁😁😁

(KC8YBC - Xtenna) Walt, great video, visibility into the exciting XTenna products is much appreciated. 73s

I just finished tuning mine. Great antenna.

Walt, thanks for sharing. That’s an awesome antenna! I recently “discovered” the EFHW, so to speak. I started with the KM4ACK EFHW kit, which uses a 49:1 transformer. After building that kit, it motivated me to try and build my own. I bought enough supplies to make 3 antennas for about 50 bucks..Making the 49:1 transformers is pretty straight forward, and it seems to work very well for the bands I would like to use.

Enjoyed listening to the QSOs. Looking forward to using my G90 next week along the shore of Lake Michigan while on vacation out there.

Great video. I’m definitely going to look into getting one of those xtennas. Have a good one! Be safe!

A great video and yes, the antenna is interesting too. A good antenna is only good if it has proven itself with QRP. Just like with the Xiegu 5105 and its 5 watts. Ok keep it up, subscribed to the channel.

Walt your channel is great as it is. I would suggest you to add more QSO in your videos. But just as it is it's much better than all those YT channel that only buy, review and configure stuff. You're doing a great job!

Loved it!

Great video Walt. Hope to catch you while you are in Poland.

Good one Walt, great video! Looking forward to good conditions and doing a QSO with you from ZS..

you sounded good in Norway.. it’s always fun to hear a recording of the audio from the other side. looks like you “got it going on” over there.. hope to make a qso with you soon.. ! thx for sharing your experience.. keep the videos coming.. 73, k0klb

Explain the three impedances and their real world use. Love your practical use of qrp

Another great one Walt! That antenna looks great. It reminds me of some of the qrpguys builds. I just bought the qrpguys kit for the 40/30/20 triband that has a switch as well. Taking it off-grid with the (tr)usdx in a couple of days. I'll have to maybe get this X-Tenna for my next trip!

Great content. Thx man

To bad you missed the Greenfest on sunday 7aug22. we were on 40 mtrs activating multiple parks and fauna &flora. 40 mtr band was full of operators. I would have loved to work you here in Belgium. Perhaps in one of the coming days/weeks. Thanks for sharing. Love your channel. ON4RF , Filippe

Thanks for the QSO and thanks for promoting my channel!

Always look forward to videos. KO4HPC 73

Great video Walt, pleased the trip is going well. Looking forward to the MW/SW stuff, plenty of pirates between 1611 to 1710 most evenings, most are Dutch but you may get the Greek ones and a few others 👍🏼 73 Franco

Thanks for all of your great videos! Too bad they will not ship the X-Tenna to Germany. I guess I will have to make my own! 73! Tim, DK8MT

Hi Walt, hope you're well mate. Nice video, and really nice to hear your enjoying the hobby over in eu. I have been listening across the bands most evenings and checking the cluster, but nil so far. Propagation is fair but should be far better on your next trip. Iam qrt for a few days,xyl in hospital, but next week I will be trolling the bands for you. Take Care my friend. Brian zl3xdj.

A couple of questions... You cut the wire to 67 feet. Were you going for resonance on any bands, and did you achieve it, or did you use a tuner? On their site, the FAQ they say to avoid half wave lengths. In fact, they suggest 71', 58', 41', 35.5', and 29'. Did you try any of those lengths before settling on 67'? What inductance ratio did you select? Last question, did you use a counterpoise, given they have sockets for the wires on the other end? I have a few different end-fed antennas, including the X-Tenna, the Sparkplug antenna, and the K6ARK micro efhw kit. I'm thinking of building one of the last with some of his micro traps, to see what performance I get. If I'm going to use a tuner, I usually gravitate on one of the designs for a W3EDP end fed. They come in 3 sizes. I have a full size up as my main wire at home, and it works fairly well, but it's not up as high as I'd like. I'm old and not very mobile, so getting the far end up in a tree is extremely difficult. I want to mount a permanent set of halyards in a couple of trees in my backyard, so I can experiment with wires up in the air to a decent height. I am whether or not you use a tuner because the Sparkplug antenna is supposed to be resonant on several bands, including 20m, but I can't get the SWR low enough. 40 and 15 we're great, but not 20m. If you have to use a tuner anyway, I might go with a W3EDP from the beginning. I can send you links to the implementation I use, if you're interested.

How about and update on the micro bit ( not sure the complete name, the one from India you got at gigaparts ). Sure did like that little radio Great video keep them coming Marc Kf4imv

Great channel ! Btw Might I have heard u say massatusses?

Walt - I did indeed purchase an X-tenna recently. It comes with 3 small banana plugs. Need to make some more radiators. Do you happen to know what size these banana plugs are? Thanks AC1NY

Nice one Walt, I'll have a listen out for you when I'm out and about, try listening for radio Caroline on 648Khz my favourite station.73 Adam G7CRQ.

I have a super dumb question... Why did you select 67'wire length and what transformer value did you select?

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Thanks for the video, Walt. Can you share what you had to do, if anything, to be allowed to operate over there? Did you have to get permission from someone in Poland? If so, how did you do that? 73 de KO4QOA