After having good success with the little wspr thing I put together, I decided to put up my old end-fed half-wavelength qrp antenna outside. I still have a under-window coax connector, so strung it up between my workshop window and the garage across the driveway. Got much nicer results.
I did notice though that it was resonating low - it was more like 13.5 rather than 14MHz. I need to adjust it, but it was already dark. So I decided to have a play with throwing together an antenna tuner real quick.
I took the 3D printed variable capacitor I made a while back, wrapped some wire around an inductor (making taps every once in a while, and threw it together on a little board I made the other day to hold my low-pass-filter. I'm using an alligator clip to adjust the inductance (choosing different taps on the inductor).
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