Excellent presentation. Some great wisdom gems from a guy who is really at the top of that game. Congrats on your 2021 Florida record, Jim. See you on the air. 73 - N5OT
Excellent explanation of the OCFD, my main QTH antenna. At school, the x-axis went left to right, and the y-axis went up and down. I'm in the UK. Thank you for the presentation.
Dear sir, thank you for this video. I have been very interested in OCF antennas, making them in particular. Your presentation was helpful. It is embarrassing that the ham world has its share of negative commenters. Please ignore their sad efforts. Best wishes from S.E.Tennessee, 73 KQ4IXD
Here's a shocker. If you want true NVIS your antenna will be below 10 feet. Been doing this many years. We don't care about gain. We don't care about signal strength. What we care about is if the intended recipient can copy us. Low antenna is difficult to DF. Low antenna is down out of the noise. And we run them QRP.
One question I have that was not addressed; the "Do not go inside a residence..." caution, but then the FCC instructs a licensee to make contact and go into the residence. The implication is [I think] that the FCC has gave him the authority as an implied agent of the Fed/FCC to do so. Does the FCC have the legal authority to "deputize" a licenses? I wonder if statute or case law has ever addressed the potential personal civil liability of this? Being an FCC employee is one thing but a licensee allegedly [now] having the authority to further track down the cause by entering the premises and doing further testing is another. Great presentation, all hams, especially new licensees, should watch this so they will have an idea of how to approach this if and when they encounter it.
Thank you, Scott. I've lived by there (Tulalip Indian Reservation) for the last twenty years. When driving east on Marine Dr one can see the blinking FAA lights of the towers. It took me a while to realize what I was looking at since we don't have any windfarms nearby.
Great video! I've been using a Chameleon Emcomm III 130' in a NVIS config. 10' horizontal off the ground. Had a nice JS8Call conversation with another ham in Germany this week. Im in southern NH and have pretty solid coverage all the way to the Mississippi river per psk reporter.
I have the 25' Chameleon mast on the front hitch receiver of my truck. Works great and is very mobile! Works on the rear receiver hitch also, of course, but I have to use a hitch extension.
40 years ago at the old QTH i had problems with neighbours both next door and three doors away. 100 Watts and a long wire. I sorted one with a simple braid breaker on his t.v., the other with a ferrite ring partially sorted it and a t.v. engineer came round and said there's only a problem when I transmit. Great! He had no idea what to do. Both three doors away had problems with t.v. and hi-fi. I called the G.P.O. and he gave me the all clear and went to the neighbours to explain. They still complained, even coming round when I was asleep in a chair. Badly made equipment. 33 years here and not one complaint, 5 Watts, nobody has asked what the wires are in my garden. Now get S8 noise 160 to 20m from broadband which I hope will disappear as fibre replaces wire. G4GHB.
It's "Common Mode Current", not common current that flows on the outside of the shield. Then there is differential mode current that flows on the center conductor and the inside of the shield.
Just saw this I was wondering can you operate n-scale kato switches using the 8 Channel Anderson Powerpole Connector Power Splitter Distributor Source Strip, with 8 Independent Control Switches
Thanks for the information ,Nano VNA is rich in possibilities and in the same time a cheap instrument that is very helpful. Well if I had such a " toy" 50 years earlier...🤔
This is awesome, thank you so much. I have broad band noise on 40 and 20 at my home QTH that was s5-7 6 months ago and is s9+5 now. Also seems to be over a very large area, unaffected by weather, but slightly more intense later in the day, so I will be employing some of these tactics and try to hunt it down. Thank you for taking the time to share this presentation. I will be sharing this with our local club W3RRR Thanks and 73 Matt W3MMW
One of the best explanations as to what all those buttons and knobs do on my radio. When I became a new general I wish I had this video back then. Im an extra now and just had to learn the hard way. Thanks for sharing this. Will definitely show new hams about this.
thanks for posting these amazing talk. I have a square d product on my house fuse box. Its a large white box outside the fuse panel that connects direct.
Hi Cliff, Shack in an upstairs bedroom, Hustler 6BTV fed with coax in the back yard, QRP with a KX2...... Also Sotabeams dipoles for /P work.... Regards, Bill G7PVZ
Looks like you’re nice and cozy in that room. For being off the air for so long and then getting back on you sure fell for it again! Great job and thanks for the video!! 👍👍👍🇨🇱😎 w5pn
Hi Bob, great presentation. It would be great to read of further comparisons. I am especially interested in antenna comparisons. My design goal is the ability to support the Hurricane Watch Net, communicate with my family, and support net operations on 20 meters. I wonder what antenna(s) you have settled on for your QTH? Terry - W6LMJ
