Building the Emtech ZM-2 ATU

Today my QRP Emtec ZM-2 ATU kit arrived !
 After opening the kit, I realized that its been over 25 years since I did any electronic building, let alone any soldering (LOL). Anyway, after a bit of a read through their instruction manual and then watching the video's below, I built it.
It works great.

Here's a couple of video's from another Hammie that I followed

My new 20m QCX- Mini arrived

 My new 20m QCX-mini from QRP Labs has finally arrived. When doing SOTA, WWFF or just going bush, I wanted something small to carry.
I also needed a small battery pack to power it, so I looked around and found THIS from Amazon.

Looking forward to using it

Building my EFHW 20m Vertical

 Whilst waiting for my licence renewal, I thought I better get myself up to speed reading and watching you tube and blogs (its amazing how one tends to forget things) and in the end I decided to make a 20m EFHW antenna.

After searching the web and found drawing of a 49:1 UNUN plus the 1/2 vertical, so I went online and ordered all the parts. 

1/ The pole itself, a 10m fibreglass squid pole I got from Haverford
2/ The wiring/ box and connections I got the local hardware store
3/ The core ( a FT140-43), 100 pF capacitor, UHF connectors, RG58 coax and other bits and pieces I got from Mini-kits

Here's the result

Time to get on the air 😃