MW0GYY

              

      M0CVO Antennas MAGITENNA now installed in the loft.

So if you have checked out my profile on QRZ.com  ( M0GYY) you will see that my amateur radio conditions are pretty limited.

So after checking out lots of alternative antennas I finally settled on this one, but does it work ?

I fitted the antenna on Sunday 9th December 2012 and to be fair the bands here in Portishead South West  England were pretty poor, propagation was not very good at all.
However not one to give up and having installed the antenna I powered up my Yaesu 817ND as my test rig and got on the air. I scanned the 20mtr band and IK2VFR was calling CQ SSB. So giving it a go I called in reply and had a great QSO using 5w. My signal was confirmed as a 5/9 all the way with congrats on a great 5w contact. So far so good.
So with a few days off work and a chance to spend a few hours hours on my radio I changed to my Yaesu 450D.
7 hours of operating over two days resulted in 20 contacts using PSK31 and SSB on 80,40,20 meters. To be fair I was really pleased with that.
Firstly I have never really operated on 80 and 40 meters from my home qth so that was a first for me.
So all is good ? ..... well almost, the antenna worked fairly well but I have a problem keeping the ALC from spiking on 40 and 30 Meters and I have not managed to solve that yet unless I go below 10w output.
On 100w SSB I turn on the bedroom lamps and the heating thermostat starts clicking, to be fair it did that with the Buddipole as well so I have to reduce power a little.
Overall and after only 7 hours of operating I really think that this little antenna is performing better than my previous set up.
I have another few days off soon so I will give it another go, hopefully conditions will be better and I can really see what this antenna can do.