I sit and look at my HW-8 and think I don’t use it much so I guess I should sell it. \u00a0So, I make a video to show it in operation and then am so surprised how well it gets out. \u00a0After all, two watts on 40 meters into a 55 foot attic doublet bent to fit, who could possibly hear my signal? \u00a0Several months ago, I went to sell it again and it worked so well I kept it and built an Elecraft audio filter to improve its performance. \u00a0A week ago, I once again made a video with the purpose of selling the unit. \u00a0I worked several parks and WES contacts and once again it never made it to the For Sale page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I sit and look at my HW-8 and think I don’t use it much so I guess I should sell it. \u00a0So, I make a video to show it in operation and then am so surprised how well it gets out. \u00a0After all, two watts on 40 meters into a 55 foot attic doublet bent\u2026 Continue Reading ‘Sell or keep?’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ant","category-hw-8","category-operating","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}