>March 2, 2026 Today I stopped at a rest stop 30 miles from my home which is 20 miles into my SHTF trek home if it should ever come to that. The test was to see if I could get a message to the house and my base station on 40M with my minimal (tr)uSDX kit using JS8Call running on my Google Pixel 6 running [[GrapheneOS]]. It was a 10 minute deployment of my [[(tr)uSDX Go-Kit]] using the [[Reel POTA-able EFHW]], nothing fancy as I did not fine tune at all, just spooled it out to a table and then took up slack with probably 10 cranks. The SWR was under 2:1 and I was outputting 3+ watts, which will do in a pinch! <iframe id="odysee-iframe" style="width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 / 9;" src="https://odysee.com/%24/embed/%40K7JLJ%3Ab%2FVID_20260302_171914%3Ab?r=CbySAU4eeRgAXJHaxnAHuyLqLp5wnDAs" allowfullscreen></iframe> I sent a few HBs and got a hit from K9NEY in Chino, CA who always has a strong path to my base station and I was pleased to see him hearing me on the POTA-able also. My "directed" from the Android is shown below, pay no attention to the dB listing, the App is not there yet, but it did get the message though!!! |  |  | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | It was about an hour before sunset, too soon to be trying 40M, but I was able to get the message through, even though I got no ACK from my base station running "normal" speed @ 20W compared to my "slow" speed at 3.5W. An hour later and I believe I would have had great comms, I'm exited to push the envelope and see how far I can get below the traditional 30 mile NVIS limit using JS8Call. Below is the message JS8Spotter on my base station [[FT-891 Go-Box]] collected. The band must have been up and down as 7dB is a lot louder than I felt the transmissions were going out at.  Not gonna lie, I'm pretty excited about the results! -72