My Preferred SOTA Antenna - The Inverted L

I've recently found myself defaulting to using an EFHW in an inverted-L configuration for most of my SOTA activations. Is this the best antenna for SOTA?

I demonstrate this antenna on Fan Brycheiniog (GW/SW-003).


0:00 Introduction
1:47 At summit
2:20 Antenna components
4:10 Guying the mast
4:50 Putting the wire on the mast
8:20 Set up overview
9:08 SWR checks
10:15 40m SSB
11:30 40m SSB summary
11:40 Onto 20m SSB
12:55 Chasing "The Radio Rover"
13:46 20m SSB summary
14:10 60m SSB
16:40 Conclusion
17:10 Outtake!


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