Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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It's getting more and more common to make a Christmas light antenna here on YouTube, so this year I wanted to switch it up. Last year I made the EFHW, this year I made a regular ole Dipole.
But I decided to decorate the tree with it, and see if I could still make an FT8 contact, and wow did it surprise me. I made a DX contact basically right off the bat, so as always, you don't need a giant yagi outside to play on HF.


00:00 Intro
00:33 Making The Antenna
03:10 Decorate The Tree
03:25 Show Off
04:40 FT8
06:20 Outro

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