8. First station / Vertical antenna + DC-7D


The picture above shows the setup of my initial 7 MHz, CW, 1 watt amateur radio.

When I got the first station license, I was in the previous QTH where, in winter, we could have a nice view of the mount Fuji 100-km away through a window of a one-story house. It was a favourable place for radio activities.

Initially I had listened to the Morse signals of coast radios with a 0-V-1, 1-V-1, and later a Wadley Loop type FRG-7 through a wire antenna hung along the eaves.

By the time of getting the certificate, I had tried a variety of antennas by converting the wire antenna to a radial and adding a vertical element, and finally settled into the type with a top loading coil and a hat.

The antenna adjustment was just to check the resonance at the 7 MHz CW band by a newly bought TRIO's dipmeter, and the feed point was directly connected to a coaxial cable without a matching unit.