Dan, Good afternoon. “These are possibly not native English speakers.” You got us laughing here!
73, Stephen (OA4/W2WF) > On Feb 7, 2026, at 00:28, Daniel Poirot via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Howdy, > > Last year, I posted about a little shopping I did with AliExpress. I have > been playing with two of the items. Time for an update... > > The first is a poor copy of the QRPGuys 'No Tune' EFHW adapter. The one I got > was labeled "No Tune Eed Half Wava". These are possibly not native English > speakers. The silk screen on the PCB listed the 20m half wavelength to be 28' > 8". I started with about 30 feet and kept cutting shorter and shorter. I > ended up around 25 feet before I got a match. I made a QSO with QRP to a POTA > using about 2.5 watts. I linked another 20 feet of wire and made a QRP > contact on 40 meters as well. > > The other item is thumb-size EFHW. The silkscreen on this one said > 'JediKitty'. It came with no instructions, a toroid, some wire, and a SMC > capacitor. I found the instructions for the KM4CFT End Fed Antenna kit. This > kit uses the same components, so what could it hurt to try? I wrapped three > turns for the primary and 21 turns for the secondary. I added the rest of the > components and tacked on my 40 meter halfwave. My NanoVNA reports about a > 1.01:1 match and about 51 Ohms of impedance. Amazing. > > Plenty of fun for under ten bucks! I also ended up with a 4:1 dipole adapter > and a 15m to 40m EFHW adapter with a tuner. That kit is next. > > 73 > Dan KJ5IZK > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
