POTA at Fort Dobbs: Testing a BCI filter (and--whoops!--depleting a battery) with the Xiegu G106 

EXCELLENT, Kevin!!!! Well done, OM! I look forward to working you park-to-park sometime this year! Thanks for sharing your kind note. Very proud of you and I think you'll find this CW POTA stuff incredibly addictive. :). And, hey, if you're like me question marks will be a very frequently used tool!

It's this one and it's superb (actually two in the pack): amzn.to/3mDH8eq

Excellent, Barry! It would be great to not only log you, but work you park to park! :) You've got this!

Can you set it to only show ads before or after? I would consider this, as you say, primarily for the control of what ads play. Some have told me that no ads appear, others have told me that they do appear.

@@ThomasK4SWL yes, I believe so. When you go to publish the videos it has a checkbox for before, mid, and after. I always leave the before and after checked but disable mid-roll ads. I can't really tell if ads appear in your videos or not because I have RU-vid premium so I've paid to not see them. Some people might have an ad blocker preventing ads too which would explain why they have mixed results.

Hi, Ed, Hmmm....I'm not sure what is better low/high pitch. In the end, I suppose it's a personal preference. Might be interesting to read up on what's best for ops with reduced hearing range. That might influence things too. GReat question--I'm good with either lower or higher.

You're correct, Vitor. It's a heavy paddle, like most Begali paddles. For POTA, it's not an issue for me. I'm not going to add it to my SOTA pack though on those long hikes. It's a wonderful key, though. All Begali keys are!

So my daughters and wife all are hams. :) They love it that I'm so into POTA and SOTA and are very supportive. My daughters are super busy with school so rarely get on the air. My wife has a license because she promised it as a birthday gift to me a few years ago! :) They're all well and I hope your family is doing well too, OM!

@@ThomasK4SWL I think our daughters are the same ages. Man they keep me running hence the lack of pota for me lately. Lol. I think they’ve adjusted to the Morse playing in the living room. 😂 glad you have a great support team. Hope ur parents are doing well too om. Give hazel belly rubs from us

I'm not entirely sure--they're the standard length for the MC-750. I have no issue tuning it to 40M based on the whip's silk-screening. Might be worth contacting Jesse at Chelegance if you're having issues.

@@ThomasK4SWL I’m not using this particular antenna. The reason I ask is because I've been using 8 16' 6" radials trying 2 coil setups (Super Antenna & BuddiCoil) both with appx 2 11" shafts below the coil and I can't get the SWR below 2.5-3.0:1 anywhere on or near the 40m band. Using a stainless steel jaw mount, Chameleon 17' SS whip and an 18" SS tent stake as far into the ground as I can. This is in average ground, not particularly dry. Laid 4 more (12 total) 16' 6" wires and it made very little change. I did try folding all 12 wires in half yesterday and still had an SWR 3:1. I removed 8 (now 33’ total) wires and was able to get 1.5:1 or less across the whole voice portion of 40. So now I’m really confused, because all of the research I’ve done says more shorter radials is better.

@@truckinguy92 Interesting. So I should think that the coil itself would have more to do with obtaining a low SWR than the ground radials. Those coils can be very fiddly--small changes to where you tap the coil could have a significant impact on the SWR. My only exposure to antennas like this are Wolf River Coils antennas. I have the TIA but rarely use it because tuning it takes a bit more time than my other antennas.