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This video is interesting but like all vertical vs dipole tests is subjective and not the case for all installations around the world...I live in rural NW Montana in a valley at 2600 feet in elevation and about 7 miles from the nearest town. To the southwest there are peaks up to 8000 feet 6 miles away. To the north east peaks up to 5000ft about 5-6 miles away. My noise floor 80m-10m is typical quite low unless the static crashes or noise floor is high for some reason on specific bands at certain times during the year and sunspot activity. When this happens most operators I can hear or talk too are also experiencing the higher noise/static floor. I have multiple halfwave dipoles up between 30 and 60 feet covering 80-10m as well as a home brew DX commander 80-10m built on a 12M HD spider beam mast. A-B noise comparisons between the dipoles and the multiband vertical is not very noticeable. RX gain on the dipoles is somewhat better in some cases as expected with directionality gain. I find the multiband vertical performs consistently better with DX quite often with both TX and RX. My full 1/4 wave wire element works very well on 80 and departs the spider beam mast at 30 feet to the top of a nearby pine tree. My DX commander style vertical also has 48 ground radials: 32 at 16' feet and 16 radials at 48'. The vertical is nestled between a grove of 60-90' pine trees around 30 feet away. (05 of my operation is done on the DX commander copy antenna.

Your video rocks. Just got the G5RV, and now I'm looking at how others have deployed the antenna. Thank you for documenting your situation.

Hi Mike, have you trest disconnecting the BAND pin? The 705 has the ALC signal in the center pin and not the band selection. However, I think that by connecting only PTT+GND the switching works. I ordered my MicroPA but I'm still waiting for its arrival. 73

My home made ZS6BKW is one of my very favourite Antennas. Happy Humpday into SoCali. 73 de Uncle Günter across the Pond 💯🙋‍♂

Working well I see

youtubers are too paranoid about copyright strikes. you wouldn't get a strike for a few seconds of audio for a radio product review. just talk while the music is playing if you're that worried. There's such a thing as fair use. It's sad how people won't even play 2 seconds because they're scared of the big bad Google wolf.

This radio does have indeed DAB/DAB+ radio but that works only in certain countries in Europe where it is broadcasting. My favorite radio ever and i had more expensive models .

What a shame

Okay-that is wayyyy stronger than 5-1!! 😅 Simon is great though.

I started listening to online radio box 70s stations on my laptop. Does this radio access those 70s music stations and do i need router and modem?

How high are the ends?

I always tx on vertical ants and rx on dipoles. Verticals always pick up more noise. 73 zl3xdj

Just curious...Can anything be heard on the Ocean Digital WR-860's DAB band here in the USA?

I'm torn. I want to get this loop, but the Alpha Antenna Loop which is very highly rated will do up to 100w for 40-10 meters

I always answer POTA stations as a hunter Never activate. That way you don't have to put up with the "sad hams who own the frequency". I learned this from the cb days.

I have a ZS6BKW in an inverted V configuration which works extremely well. I did need to trim both ends several times as I measured SWR with my Rig Expert analyzer. As Dave Casper says about Antennas, "everything affects everything". You will need to adjust each leg for best SWR using a reliable antenna analyzer. I expect that this will produce the best SWR that your system is capable of. Good Luck, 73, Fred. KC2PK

Can this be used with XIEGU G90 using SSB? Thanks!

Great rig and amp, have fun.

Very nice. From personal experience however such a long pole will not last long. I used a very thick 33ft one (10 meters) but after 4 years it was broken by a strong wind. Now I'm using an aluminum mast.

Thanks for sharing, enjoy🎼✨

You talk too much as evidenced by your 2 minutes of wasted time for the intro!

I'm getting the materials together to install my masts. My plan is for 2 masts. 1 mast will be 16 feet tall just outside the window next to my station to keep the feedline down to a minimum. The other mast will be about 60 feet away in the back yard. It will be 12 feet tall. The 2 masts will be used to support an EFHW. This method here will save me the time and effort digging down 2 feet in order to sink the 1-1/4" PVC pipe I will be using as a ground sleeve. The masts themselves are 4.5 foot steel tv antenna mast extension sections I got at Lowes for $7.50 each. There is about a 6" overlap between the sections as they swage together. This concrete in a bucket idea looks like the better option, because, as you said, it allows the assembly to be relocated as needed.

Cool review. I just recently bought the F-loop 3.0 DIY kit. Looking forward to seeing your review.

Never..ever acknowledge that you can hear hecklers. Just roll through your contacts. Pick the loud signals and go on and on about how strong their signal is.

The DX Commander is aimed at getting you a low launch angle for TX. Even Callum uses a LOG antenna for receive. And don’t forget the dipole is directional so a station 90 degrees off from your received station in the video would most likely be subject to higher noise as the AGC lifts the signal up. I think other people have pointed out noise affects different antenna in different ways so it makes sense to have several in hand to switch through. Have you ever played around with a LOG (loop on the ground) antenna? It would be interesting to see a 3 antenna comparison. Using WSPR and FT8 to test. Obviously you can’t transmit on the LOG. 73 John

My grandpas saying applies here. “As I have gone through life’s highways and byways I soon found out that there were more horses asses than there were horses 🐎 “. WB9VVH in TN

any new updates on this amp? Is it still working ok?

My PA 50+ does not work on 30m or 15m. Says "BYP" in the upper right. Is running 2.8.5. Anyone else experience this or have a fix?

My PA 50+ does not work on 30m or 15m. Says "BYP" in the upper right. Is running 2.8.5. Anyone else experience this or have a fix?

My goodness, some people are so immature. But DON'T critique their hobby.

Do you need an external tuner for the zx6bkw?

Will there be a version covers 6m?

How are your longer term usage reports on SSB audio quality? Are you using it stock or have you adjusted the Mosfet gate drive? I Have one but as I'm still going through the convoluted process of getting licensed in Japan it is getting modded (BNC conversion) and tweaked rather than put on the air.

Is great WHEN it works n don't just give you a high pitch noise

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👍❤From personal experience your neighbors will probably not even notice the wire. People these days are not used to look above since there is typically no danger there (any predators etc). I check this theory regularly by asking my guests "so what do you think about my huge HF antenna" and they constantly answer "what antenna?" To clarify, I have a fan dipole for 7 HF bands, it's much more noticeable than ZS6BKW.

Man that sucks ! Throw a hex beam up on a 25ft pole there. An efhw might be a better option inverted L up one pole and over to the older trees.

Super annoying but I guess the bright side is that we get to practice in "adverse" conditions(?). Maybe just mentally visualize that moron as QRM instead

How sensitive is it to SWR? I hear the original versions would shut down even on an SWR of 1.7

Chameleon products are very overpriced. Also I was not impressed by their communication with the customers about accessories to their products. I've built several magnetic loops, every time spending a fraction of their price and getting an excellent performance (for a compromise antenna that is). There is a great book dedicated to magnetic loops - "Magnetic Loop Antenna: Slightly Different Each Time".

yo! thank you-gorgeous content! 📢

Knucklehead must have drifted down from 14.313. What a dick!

That sucks. I can't imagine NOT wanting trees, even for a non-ham.

No trees time for a tower

Can't beat it for the price. Neat little amp. Barry

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I have recently picked up the less expensive OGS-50. Only tested it using 0.8 watts as input & it output 25 watts. I heard the OGS-50 does not necessarily have a good impedance match between the source rig and the amp's input. I am waiting on a soon to be published easy fix for this before I use the amp much. This leads me to wonder if your amp has a similar issue. If so, I suppose the reflected power could damage our PA on our rig.

As a few have stated, it is frequency sensing, so all that is truly needed is to have it installed inline with the antenna. That said, I really like mine. It pairs very nicely with my X6100 & Antuner AT-100M ATU, as everything is very compact and easily packable. It works rather well with my DX Commander Signature 9 (w/80m inverted L element swap), and I was able to 6 band both of the recent A25R and W8S DXpeditions, including an 80M QSO to W8S from South TX.

I have one of these. Good amp but watch for random SWR spikes in CW. I modified mine to key via the key line from the radio. The frequency/band switches automatically.

It auto switches bands. My routine is to change band on radio, turn off amp to tune new band, it will switch then as you tune. Turn amp on and transmit. If your tuner has memories, just change bands, the amp will switch almost immediately. They are solid amps, I think you will like it.