EA5/G4VZV youtube channel
which has videos of some of my contacts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5PuunA-l2NpKp6OuKwvYIQ
To
log a contact with EA5/G4VZV ......or EA5/G4VZV/P go
direct to the EA5/G4VZV or EA5/G4VZV/P page on
qrz.com and add the contact.
I have 3 Logbooks on qrz.com
Logbook 1: G4VZV home station.
Logbook 2: EA5/G4VZV Spanish main address.
Logbook 3: EA5/G4VZV/P.
Photo: ( Main
station photo of G4VZV in Sheffield , South
Yorkshire , UK taken in 2014 )
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Latest info:
Below picture is my
EA5/G4VZV/pedestrian mobile station in January 2018.
I made a trolley station consisting of 1/4 wave vertical
wire, and a capacitive coupled grounding system. Note the
trolley is not directly earthed. There are no ground radials
or earth rods. Results are quite amazing and operating in
the 'fresnal zone' close to the edge of the sea gives
remarkable signals both on receive + transmit. The equipment
is FT857, manual MFJ tuner and ground system.
I would urge you to try /portable or
/pedestrian mobile work , there's little noise and you have
lots of fun.
The 2 pictures below
are of my /pedestrian mobile at El Pinet , close to Santa
Pola, south of Alicante. The set up being onlya few feet
from the salt lakes to the West and North.
This
is a photo of me sat on the beach on a
warm winter day December 2017 ....see
below.
Here I'm EA5/G4VZV/portable
on the beach at Hostal Galicia, El Pinet , 20Kms south
of Alicante, Spain. Set up is FT857D, LDG atu and
operation is with a 40amp car battery. Antenna is 1/4wave
vertical wire on telescopic pole secured in to a tripod.
Look at logbook for EA5/G4VZV/P for stations worked.
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Here is another /portable set up in 2017.
This was at El Pinet on The Costa Blanca , Spain on a late
winters afternoon:
GENERAL INFO FOR G4VZV :
My old call:
G6EAG
My dad is : EA5BKT
also G4NQL
WAB is SK49, and Locator square is IO93IK
Main interest is making,
antennas/aerials. Some 20years ago I made an homebrew wide
spaced 3 and 4 element HF beam, using parasitic wire
directors and reflectors on boom extensions and also a
2 Element Cubical Quad on a 60ft Strumech tower.
Also I've shunt fed towers to use on the lower bands but
only had moderate success. In more recent years I've
experimented with vertical antennas for the low
frequenciey bands.
My Antennas : Multi Band
Delta loop by: Urbasket.eu and
VPA Antenna Systems. This is the main antenna and you
can see it in the picture at the top of the page (click
on the photo to expand it) . The same picture is also
shown below.
Multiband Delta Loop
The other picture is a: Force 12
Sigma 5 GTS Half Wave Vertical Dipole for 10-20mts. A good
antenna for small gardens taking up little space only 3.5
mts high and performs well having low
angle take-off. It has a remote switching system in the
station at the side of my radio and with relays you get
like monoband vertical performance. It does not require
ground radials it's an end loaded dipole in the
vertical plane. This
antenna is now used at my Spanish QTH
positioned on the balcony approximately 6mts
agl. For the : Low Freq bands
(40 and 80mts) use own version of LDG S9 43V
vertical in the form of sloping wire.
Force 12 Sigma
5GTS
EA5/G4VZV: (NEXT
VISIT : 2018 I've
added a page on QRZ for this callsign. The same info can be
seen on: 'qrzcq.com'. I have a small holiday
home located very close to the beach and within 3
kilometers of 'Guardamar Del Segura' near Alicante, S.E
Spain. I use my call sign prefixed with EA5/G4VZV.
VOIP System
AllStar and Echolink:
I have an AllStar and Echolink Micro
Node.
AllStar : 42431
Echolink : 251866.
SKYPE:
keng4vzv
73 de G4VZV Ken