Conditions were good this morning, and the Radio Gods continue to favor homebrew rigs. I got on 15 meters SSB with the new 15-10 dual bander and quickly worked YH0AD in Jakarta (about 10,000 miles). A few minutes later I talked to YB2MVD; he was a bit further east on Java. I shot a video of the QSO with YB2MVD. He said I was 59.
I then switched to 10 meter SSB (same rig) and worked CE4PS in Chile (5,000 miles).
TRGHS.
The antenna for all these contacts was my K4KIO Hex Beam. I was running about 75 watts from the .1kW CCI amplifier.
I refuse to run power into FT8, let propagation do the heavy work. I worked Spain on 1 watt FT8
Bill, It would be great to see the schematics, etc when you have a chance. 73!