In this camping adventure with my youngest daughter I try out 2m SSB using the homemade halo antenna built in previous videos plus 40m using the DX Commander expedition pole with a modification.

Good contacts throughout the day on both bands even with propagation conditions meant to be poor, there was plenty of contacts in the log.

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