I made a contact! First one in 10 years ON my elderly #sgc2020. About 1200km on 20m to northern Italy. They gave me 55 which I am pleased with for my measly 10W (not sure my SLAB will cope with heady 20W)
Looks like the #DXCommander fan vertical does work, even with only 12 random length casually laid radials.
Everything is so *quick* compared with marine radio!
#QSB
#LID

#introduction
Been off the air since we sold our boat some years back. Nothing like the low noise floor of a sailing boat well offshore with everything shut down!

Now putting together #DXCommander fan #vertical to use with elderly #SGC2020.

Very rural village-edge location with reasonable take off, so high hopes....

10m 20m 40m SSB to start then CW when skills improve.