[{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/20m/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"20m","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/cha-feather/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"CHA Feather","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/dalarna/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Dalarna","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Leif.radio","summary":"","title":"Leif.radio","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/portable/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Portable","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Posts","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/rbn/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Rbn","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/tx500mp/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"TX500MP","type":"tags"},{"content":"On Saturday I took the radio with me up to Gimsklack in Dalarna, Sweden. What a view!\nI tried out the TX500MP with a Chameleon CHA Feather antenna and heard lots of signals from around Europe. I hadn\u0026rsquo;t brought enough warm clothes, and the cold meant I didn\u0026rsquo;t try for any QSOs, but the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) showed that I was getting out well on 20 meters.\n73 de SM4T\n","date":"2 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/2026-11-02-gimsklack/","section":"Posts","summary":"On Saturday I took the radio with me up to Gimsklack in Dalarna, Sweden. What a view!\nI tried out the TX500MP with a Chameleon CHA Feather antenna and heard lots of signals from around Europe. I hadn’t brought enough warm clothes, and the cold meant I didn’t try for any QSOs, but the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) showed that I was getting out well on 20 meters.\n","title":"Up on Gimsklack","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"1 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/news/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"News","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/sm4t/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Sm4t","type":"tags"},{"content":"Welcome to leif.radio, my amateur radio website!\nThis is where you\u0026rsquo;ll find posts about CW on 20 and 40 meters, contest reports, propagation and notes on the station: a FLEX-8400 and a DX Commander vertical.\n73 de SM4T\n","date":"1 November 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/2026-11-01-welcome/","section":"Posts","summary":"Welcome to leif.radio, my amateur radio website!\nThis is where you’ll find posts about CW on 20 and 40 meters, contest reports, propagation and notes on the station: a FLEX-8400 and a DX Commander vertical.\n","title":"Welcome to leif.radio","type":"posts"},{"content":" About me # My name is Leif and I operate under the callsign SM4T.\nCallsigns # SA4ZAB: my original callsign SM4T: my additional callsign Station # Mode: mostly CW Bands: mainly 20 m and 40 m Transceiver: FlexRadio FLEX-8400 Antenna: DX Commander 9 (vertical) ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/about/","section":"Leif.radio","summary":"About me # My name is Leif and I operate under the callsign SM4T.\nCallsigns # SA4ZAB: my original callsign SM4T: my additional callsign Station # Mode: mostly CW Bands: mainly 20 m and 40 m Transceiver: FlexRadio FLEX-8400 Antenna: DX Commander 9 (vertical) ","title":"About / Station","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"Contest reports and results from Leif.radio.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/contests/","section":"Contests","summary":"Contest reports and results from Leif.radio.\n","title":"Contests","type":"contests"},{"content":" Home station # Transceiver: FlexRadio FLEX-8400, SDR transceiver. Antenna: DX Commander 9, multiband vertical. Portable # Used for portable operation.\nTransceiver: Lab599 Discovery TX-500MP, compact portable HF/6 m transceiver with a built-in automatic antenna tuner. Antenna: Chameleon CHA LEFS Feather, lightweight end-fed half-wave (EFHW) wire antenna for portable QRP use. ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/gear/","section":"Leif.radio","summary":"Home station # Transceiver: FlexRadio FLEX-8400, SDR transceiver. Antenna: DX Commander 9, multiband vertical. Portable # Used for portable operation.\n","title":"Gear","type":"page"}]