I have been combining my hammock camping with some ham radio. Anyone else here tried that?
https://youtu.be/kptKRcZW6_4
I have been combining my hammock camping with some ham radio. Anyone else here tried that?
https://youtu.be/kptKRcZW6_4
That's an older picture, but I think on that day I was using an 88' doublet and a 50 watt amp as well. I typically use a endfed half wave antenna and work as many bands as I can, 60 meters and up on CW and sideband. For the non-hams that is using morse code or a microphone on frequencies that may work for semi-local contacts up to as far away as New Zealand or Australia on a good day.
Just planning to do that man
The read-out shows 17 meters. cougarmeat/k7nhb here. LiFePO4 batteries have surely made a difference in what one can carry. There’s boaters' net on 75M in the PNW and about the East Coast of Vancouver Island. I hope to make contacts back to Bend, when on kayak/hammock adventures there - once the border is open again. But I don’t know about “working” while lying down in the hammock. Too much time sitting in front of the rig. I suppose I could use the hammock as a chair, but a real folding chair is part of the kayak luxuries.
Those trees don’t look like the type to have antenna friendly branches. The lack of bushwhacking ground cover is nice for your Hammock setup.
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I can see that I need to get my radio hung in the hammock. That's a job for another day!
I was hungry when I opened this thread...really thought it was going in a different direction
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