Lightweight Portable Random Wire Antenna

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This is post 2473 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas.

Amateur Radio and camping make wonderful companions, if you are prepared for unexpected weather and potential equipment problems in "the field."

Kevin (W6RIP) does an excellent job of describing how he prepared for his overnight mountain top camping trip and solved some of the problems deploying his 80 meter random long wire antenna.

An interesting and visually enjoyable trip outdoors.  Here are some comments from Kevin:

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