Due to some very fine weather with a temperature above 17℃ in the afternoon, fellow radio amateur Frank PA2DKW, owner of antenna kit webshop HFKits, and I decided to do some antenna experiments ‘in the field’.
We ended up in a polder, a typical Dutch countryside setting. And as I am interested in World Wide Flora and Fauna, this area is indeed a WWFF reference, namely PAFF-0079. We were able to make 11 QSO’s for WWFF under the call sign PA6ML/P. Conditions were abysmal, but still, we could test the antennas in mind.
Frank set up a glass fibre pole with an end-fed half wave wire antenna vertically along it and, mounted against the picnic table, a very skilfully assembled delta loop antenna. Not very scientific, but we tried testing the performance with WSPR. Only 10 watts from an ICOM IC-705. The results were puzzling at best.
We both worked with WSJT-X to transmit a WSPR signal. Frank used call sign PA2DKW/P and transmitted on his delta loop antenna and PA6ML/P was used to transmit using the end-fed wire antenna, vertically.
PA6ML/P managed to be heard… nowhere (?). We still suspect that there is more to it. Perhaps a misconfiguration in WSJT-X or a strange bug.
PE1MR trying to conquer the waves. 
‘Miracle’ delta loop antenna by PA2DKW on the left, his end-fed antenna (DIY kit) on the right. 
IC-705 displaying Maidenhead and coordinates for WWFF. 
The setup with a 12Ah 13.V LiFePo4 home-made battery pack and a BaMaKey TP-II (thanks Markus!).
