Welcome to Hamradio, hunting an fishing as it happens. My name is Wayne call is Kg4muk ,I enjoy the hobby of building anything that involves getting on the Air and just calling for DX stations from all around the world, G there is no telling what might happen or who will contact me while being on the air spreading the word about ham radio. And Outdoors with me and my son we mite be fishing out in the boat or hunting you just never know. Stay tuned and find out what is next. One video a week be sure to like 👍 subscribe to my channel.
Thanks two days I have been using it mobile and 500 miles up to 2300 mile away contacts 5.5 to 5.8 reports I’d say is doing good and looking good to I’ll probably be mobile eastern time 7:30 till 8:30 in the morning times on 14.250 or 14.275 and afternoon time around 8:00 till 9:00”s Monday through Friday
If it's too slow to warm up you can remove the original fan. Might be causing too much air resistance and/or turbulence. I'm doing something similar using Thermoworks billows system.
@@DavidLHowell yeah totally get it today was a test I’m thinking about removing fan and box it in and I mite have to box up the big hole and get it closer but it’s holding 225 not missing a lick
@Outdoors_with_kg4muk_Wayne if you do remove the fan box one option is the LSS mods fan box extension which bolts right on and gives you a 2 inch offset from the heat. But you would need to add a steel plate on the end and then drill your hole in that plate. But that mod is $100. Maybe you have equipment and skills to build your own box. Very nice, looking forward to your update.
@@DavidLHowell I do actually have plasma cutters and welders just haven’t got to it yet to cut out a plate steel plate and all the holes cut I can do it for $100 easy
The amp is perfect into a dummy load, but varies wildly into various antennas with a tuner. Your problem is not with the amplifier, but the antenna system. Do you have a 10 meter antenna that does not require a tuner that you can connect directly to the amplifier? Put up a simple dipole for ten meters. Connect the dipole directly to the amplifier and It should work with the dipole as well as it does into the dummy load. I agree with the other comments concerning stray RF and saturated component that can't handle the power. By the way, I have the ALS-1306, and before that I had a ALS-1300. Both worked perfectly on all bands 180 through 6 meters. But, when I first moved from the SB-220 to the ALS-1300 I discovered all kinds of problems with my antenna systems. The problems were mostly intermittent jumper cables and bad old coax that had water leakage.. The SB-220 was very fault tolerant. The ALS-1306 has a number of protective circuits, and they are doing there job. Jumper cables, antenna switches, SWR bridges, anything that is in the antenna system is suspect. If the dummy load is perfect on 10 meters, it is likely a dipole connected directly to the amp will be too. I had your experience, but with the ALS-1300 nearly twenty years ago. I started at the antennas, suspect was an antenna switch at the top of the tower, then coax from the tower into the shack, and finally antenna switches and jumper cables in the shack. The problem was with a jumper from the switch to the wall. Anything you move, connect, disconnect, touch, etc. becomes a more likely suspect. Good luck.
Thanks for the comment, just found out yesterday amp was fixed at Ameritron I’ll do a new video when it gets back the issue was the amp not my antenna system but I will announce what the issue was sometime next week
Man, i am excited to start assembling my R9, i got it second hand though, so wondering how many components i will have to repair or replace. Seeing how top heavy and awkward this vertical is, i was curious about the tuning procedure... are you able to do any of the tuning when the antwnna is not vertical? I just helped a friend setup his butternut multiband vertical, it did not go quite as the manual instructed, but wirh my analyzer we dialed everything in except 30, which he did not plan to use anyhow. I like the cushcraft design more than the butternut myself personally. Going to do a foldover mount for mine.
@@jwreagan get the guy rope kit definitely, get the clamps replaced with the industrial clamps from Napa there basically double bound and use the copper base paste from DX Engineering and only put it on all joints use gloves do all lengths buy the book tune 6 meters and get it 1.5 or less center of band then 10 meters 1.5 center of band 12, 15, 17 and 20 and 30 meters get each band one at a time then do 40 get it to 1.5 then 80 then after all are tuned re start over from 6,10,12,17,20,30,40,75,80 get them as low in the center of your band plan it’s a pain in the butt but it’s a big Antt
@@Outdoors_with_kg4muk_Wayne already printed, laminated, three-hole punched and put it in a binder lol. Currently looking for materials to build the tilt over. I have a 9' rooftop tower I am preparing to install. I have to test all the components before I put it up though. I do not like heights anymore, so the less I have to get on the roof the better. Mostly came here to see how yours was installed.
@@jwreagan if you get the ground plane elements 10-12 feet above ground it will also be dang near perfect a tilt over pipe I’ll put it this way almost a solid piece of pipe that can’t bend none double thick wall pipe that R9 when you tilt it down you have to go really slow and easy it is extremely difficult and top heavy once it starts over again thick or something extremely heavy solid
@@Outdoors_with_kg4muk_Wayne I already have a boat winch for raising and lowering, I had even though about potentially adding a counterbalance depending on material length. Good fortune on my side, where I intend to mount it, nobody but me will see it, out in a clearing in some forest. Now I need to find a reasonably priced guy kit or find what it is constructed of and duplicate it.
Hi Wayne. I have TS-570S and in the coming days I will receive my new TS-590S. I'm curious about the interfaces you used on the radios to connect them. Could you please share any details? Thanks!
There is a place in the 590 book about connecting them it’s been a while you have a few settings to change and hook the line in to both rigs I’ll have to go back and look at it
8ten bars are junk . They do not last , they don’t oil as well and the sprockets on the nose tend to wear out incredibly fast … next time spend $100 and get a Sugihara or Tsumura bar that’s made in Japan . Also a 28” on 290 tends to bog down the saw unless it’s been ported .. the 8 ten chains are Ok but still not the best … I run saws for a living . Anyways good luck with your channel .
I appreciate your comment. My son is restoring and learning old Macs and other saws so this was his most reasonable spend and he’s testing the waters because of a budget but he is learning and he still young he wanted to try that bar on my 290 and it definitely choked it down.
@@Outdoors_with_kg4muk_Wayne I was just being honest . Cause I’ve learned a lot through trial and error . The Holzforma bars are good to be a Chinese Knock off .. I’ve just learned to spend the xtra money , get something good and they lasts a lot longer as long as you keep the sprocket greased up and run good bar oil . I’ve found the tractor supply bar oil does very well . I’ve had the Stihl bar oil get the bar very hot . Even the green jugs Ithasca I think it is , do great
Did some research and found out this Still 290 has the wrong sprocket even with the standard inch bar it come with it was sometimes a slug on very big trees so we ordered the correct one gonna change muffler and port it that should at lest step it up this video was just testing the waters
Hopefully I can catch about 20-30 more fish like these then a fish fry will be in the works , been going to my spots only catching a few but come April and May will fill the freezer full
One note about Garmin that I don’t think is right I have not found any offbrand cheaper, trolling motors that can connect to the Garmin 106 echo maps Sad to know you gotta pay $3500 roughly to have a trolling motor that uses all the functions that the Garmin 106 has anybody knows something I don’t know without having to use adapters. Please let me know in the comments.
Thank you I appreciate that it built to go in really low water and dig in the mud I don’t really care to beat it up but I like the set up just in case I gotta get back in some ruff areas I can go were the others jet ski and regular boats can’t go
How did you find setting up the ma5b for best swr values ? I had one and could not lower the SWR no matter what I did. Just curious because I've just got me another new one and have yet to install it
Most important thing was understanding the information ( instructions with the Ma5b) the measurement and spacing have to be done right also need a antenna analyzer to fine tune each band start with 10 - 1st then go to each band getting them as low as possible then go back over it starting with ten again each band pick a spot on analyzer center of each band your going to talk on I got all bands 1.1 one more thing I changed that 3 pcs boom to a single PCs thick wall also got better U bolts and the hose clamps I got the best Napa can get and I put a 1/4 inch plate 10x 11 for the mast mount and better U bolts making that Ma5B more reliable and ridged the 3 rd time around made a huge difference
Thank you my first video too actually edit I’ll get better as time passes we just now preparing for the spring season and we are going to do a lot more outdoors and Hamradio so hopefully this is a big step forward thanks a bunch
I have this amp on order waiting for shipment. Saw your video and am concerned about the issues. Reading the comments looks like your issue was the grounding. I will have to read up on grounding a station to make sure I don't have any issues. Thanks for your video.
Yes, all my grounding is outside already have one house ground and that’s the only ground I use. I ordered me a my antenna 10 to 80 m the SWR is so low that amplifier works. Absolutely flawless 50 W drive is absolutely perfect.
I might add this as well no matter how hard you try that amplifier is never going to operate on 10 m because it’s got a 11 m block in it and because 2800 is so close it just don’t like it and I can live with that, but it works everything else flawlessly
I was looking at my antenna EFHW-7510-2K-Plus which might be what you're talking about. 130 feet long may be a problem for me. I'm disappointed to hear about the 10m issues. Think I saw mention of that on another channel but assumed it was an issue of that particular amp that will get resolved. This is my first solid state amp so I am excited and can't wait to receive it. Thanks for providing your experience.
Hello, I was facing problem with Cushcraft R9 on the 80 and 4om tuning. Hard to find proper point on the coil to place the tapping pin. I want to make 3.573 for the 80m and 7.074 on the 40m Loading coil. Meanwhile for another band I got better SWR. I was using RigExpert A55 Zoom. Dou have any advice or video for adjusting the taping?
One thing I have found out is the R9 has to be to size when you start tuning with a analyzer get 6m 10m 12m 15m 17 then 30m then 20 then 40 get each one as flat of a swr as possible when you do get to 75 meters I have found making the top element a 1/2 longer gives you more or less lower swr on 40 and 80 start in center of tap you mite have to clip on one side you follow the direction the coil is going stay in same spot you mite only have to move 1/2 inch down the wire not dropping to many rounds down when swr is almost perfect you can slide clip on same spot left or right mite make it perfect
Good question as far as the 590S is by far the best top of the line for an entry-level radio I would give it a 10+ in quality and performance and versatility over any of the other HF radios it is a superb choice
