The radio shack is away from the house which helps it to have fantastic low noise reception. During winter, it' gets cold out there in the metal shed so I've ended up running a cable through the wall of the main house so I can have a transceiver next to my computer. The antenna has been a 40m dipole. It works OK but not as good reception as the shack antennas. I thought it might be fun to have multiple bands so strung out a half wave cut for 80m and above. Here's the sweep done with NanoVNASaver:
The shaded areas are the ham bands so it's perfect at 80m but a little off with some of the other bands. I'm currently using the Xiegu X6200 with Open 6200 software so it has a tuner built-in.
Over night I ran frequency hopping WSPR and 40m is still my best band.
WSPR (and friends) are amazing.
Image from WSPR Watch.
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