Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
ICOM IC-705 transceiver in the European HF Championship. It was my first test of this QRP radio in the crowded HF contest. I've tested this transceiver in VHF/UHF field day contest some time ago, please look for the video on this elsewhere in my channel. In this HF contest , I was running bare 10 watts from the transceiver into my End Fed Half Wave 80-10m antenna. I have improved this antenna before the contest by adding a small compensation coil at about 2m from the feed point in order to improve performance and the SWR on the higher bands. It was only 20m band where the coil made a very good improvement. 15 and 10m bands , unfortunately were not affected by the coil. I will make further improvements and experiments with my EFHW antenna. Please consider subscribing and be the first to know how was it all going ! 73! Linas LY2H
ICOM IC-705 transceiver in the European HF Championship. It was my first test of this QRP radio in the crowded HF contest. I've tested this transceiver in VHF/UHF field day contest some time ago, please look for the video on this elsewhere in my channel. In this HF contest , I was running bare 10 watts from the transceiver into my End Fed Half Wave 80-10m antenna. I have improved this antenna before the contest by adding a small compensation coil at about 2m from the feed point in order to improve performance and the SWR on the higher bands. It was only 20m band where the coil made a very good improvement. 15 and 10m bands , unfortunately were not affected by the coil. I will make further improvements and experiments with my EFHW antenna. Please consider subscribing and be the first to know how was it all going ! 73! Linas LY2H
