You know what I love the most in your videos ? The enthusiasm every time you go out for this. I'm just seeing one haply little kid playing with the favorite toys hehehe. Another nice video... 73.
You should be using full phonetics of your call on the satellites and a full duplex radio so youre not causing interference on the uplink when youre not getting in to the satellite.
Howdy! I found your channel and video! You have a new SUB - worked you on 2m FM (146.520) KA7TXS - Looking forward to working you again! 73s de John - KA&TXS
Hi Adam, Best wishes for 2021. Thanks for your channel and sharing your experience. I see you tapping on your phone and I wonder what is your log app on your smartphone ? Please could you share your tips on logging your QSO ? 73 Baptiste F4IOD
K6ARK I was just about to say how much that looks like where I live. Then I realized it is where I live LOL LOL. Are you guys off of Temecula parkway? I can't remember the name of that highway.
Recently discovered your channel on a recommendation from N6DNM. Learning a bunch on SOTA activations, antennas and rigs from your channel. 73 de KI7UXT
No mode restrictions on 2m although generally SSB is in the lower portion of the band and FM higher up. Unfortunately 2m all mode transceivers that are portable enough for use on sota are somewhat pricey (FT-818 is probably the cheapest available at the moment )
Above comments are correct. I was stoked to hear someone come back to my CW call, even on SSB. CW on 2m is another couple orders of magnitude less common than SSB even. And as for rigs, the Yaesu FT991 has 2m and 70cm on all modes. The discontinued FT-857 does too. I love that radio for portable ops.
hi Adam, I just saw your video, very funny, an apology I did not listen to you, I have checked my audio and noise comes in, I hope to do a qso S2S with you via satellite, congratulations for your channel, Mayolo XE1MYO
One doesn't normally call CQ *on a repeater*. QRZ ("who is calling me?") is for when you've heard a station calling you but you don't have their callsign yet. VK2SKY (Edit: add callsign)
Richard is right. It's unusual to call CQ on a repeater (you certainly can if you want, though). It is standard/common to call CQ on simplex on any frequency or mode, including 2m, 70cm, and up. QRZ means "who's calling?". None of this is new.
@@vk2sky The strict definition of QRZ is as you say. However, I guess the 60's and 70's were different as my experience was that CQ was not heard on V/UHF, even on simplex, AM or FM, with the exception of 6mtrs. To be fair, I can't speak for SSB on the higher freqs. But, things change with time. Just not used to it.
Interesting. If I heard someone sending QRZ on CW or calling it on SSB, I would just assume there was another station calling them and that I couldn't hear them. That's how it works on all other bands. How did you call on CW in the 60s and 70s?