https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/1082b757-c3ec-48e2-969e-4b31b115c875 A QRP portable mini-expediton to Phillip Island, about 100km SE of Melbourne. The Ten Tec R4020 provided CW contacts on 40 & 20 metres. 14 contacts were made - 4 on 40m and 10 on 20m. 4 VKs and 10 DX stations (mostly Europe) were worked. Most operating was during a 4 hour operating session covering the late afternoon and early evening. Then the station was on a pier, with salt water underneath. Highlights were contacts with VK2ACL (running QRP) and G3LDO (running a c1939 vintage station). Two G contacts were made by the contacted stations answering my CQ calls - a sure sign that the station was working well. At this time only the ZL Reverse Beacon Network sation was decoding my signal - indicating that manned stations generally have lower noise, better antennas or ability to decode weak signals. Several antennas were tried on 20 metres - a 2-radial ground plane, a horizontal inverted vee and a vertical dipole. Bother vertical antennas picked up much more noise than the inverted vee. The most successful transmit antenna overall was the vertical dipole. PS: If you liked this video please consider supporting Amateur Radio VK3YE by: Subscribing on YouTube,, Checking my books page at https://books.vk3ye.com, Shopping on Amazon via: https://amzn.to/3iiDQXv, or, Shopping on eBay via: https://ebay.us/i9DuWP (then if you buy something I'll get a small commission at no cost to you) Sat, 09 May 2026 07:09:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/1082b757-c3ec-48e2-969e-4b31b115c875 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.