Snowy Radio Ops : Why digital modes are key to EMCOMM's 

My favorite winter outdoor activity is going back inside where its warm :)

I really enjoy your channel. Thanks for taking the time to film these.

Nice video! Love the second try 👍

nice real world scenario. Glad you turned back around to finish the mission.

You make excellent points in this entertaining video. One piece of gear you might want to add to your kit is a small tarp to hang over you and your rig to keep the snow and or rain off. DE WA1KLI

As the owner of the ic705- I bought the chameleon mpas 2.0 to go out and do portable work with it. I have the same tuner (mat) I can’t make any contacts with the mpas and 705. I can’t do any voice contacts on the 705 period unless on a perfectly tuned dipole at height. The mpas is a great antenna in its own right At 100watts but doing voice at 5watts isn’t what it’s made for. Kind of disappointed

All that fancy setup, but no tarp! Come on!!! :)

For Ecom I am leaning heavily on my 130ft Ultimax 80m-10m EFHW. It was an okay antenna until I started grounding and choking at the feedpoint, after being informed by testing down by Steve Ellington that showed up to 3dBr improvement compared to other configurations. Right now I am trying to figure out how to get the most out of my Chameleon Emcomm III portable. So far the performance is mediocre at best, especially on 80m and 40m. On 80m ancedotal signal reports suggest the Emcomm III is about -6dBr down from the EFHW. I've only deployed the Emcomm III as a sloper or inverted-L and I am not running their recommended choke. I'll probably order it this weekend. As my primary mode is NVIS on 80m I should be running horizontal. The EFHW does great at 80m NVIS as an inverted-L elevated about 25ft using SSB phone running 20W. Sometimes I turn down to 5W-10W. Testing in this video shows JS8Call running NVIS at 100mW over 20km across a mountian. At 1W the signal becomes difficult to DF. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9QIeG4LiFMg.html

Thanks for the video. I am surprised the little ic705 even transmits with the low bat light on and in those conditions. Have you tried a extra battery to bump it up to 10 watts? Also maybe a counter poise wire for that antenna? I am just starting out, but my kit looks very similar to yours. And writing from Canada, your weather looks like mine too! 73.

Need a small tarp

Isn't 7.156mhz outside of your band privileges with a general license?

Lol "okk 73"

Digital modes are an epic fail in high noise conditions. And for EMCOMM? LOL. Your whole "system" can be wiped out by the simplest malware. CW for the win!