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Hey Phillip, I used to 'chat' with you on eham. I recently bought a Xeigu G106 and have been looking at videos on YT when I noticed you commented on one, so I found your channel. I hope all is well, Steve G7HEU.

Great design. Very light and portable.

Nice tips with the tubes and the spike at the bottom.

Now that's awesome!

great video, thanks for sharing! de KI5KGT

Well, I know where mine are going. 👍🏼

Bro really said ._._.._.._.._._.._.

May I ask the reason for wanting to get the coil off the ground more with the Buddistick extender?

Where did you get that tripod I like it ? Thanks Kevin

Hello...i have one 12 meters long...very nice pole...for portable operations...

That tripod looks good. I need to find one of them. Thanks for the informative presentation.

Elevated radials are far superior if antenna location permits.

Lemme suggest a DIY alternative. How about a sideswiper key using a <$10 Harbor Freight feeler gauge set. Amazing tunabiluty! I prefer a light feel, so i use the .015" strip. YMMV depending on your preferences. BTW, my all time fav is a W8FYO single set at 5g per dyno. 73 de NM9X

A dummy load with telscoping whips.

If you just sent your whole call two or 3 times to him it probably would have gone better, earlier.

I was sharing your experience but saw it a bit differently. Instead of "raising hell", call me sanctimonious, but saw it as aggressive cleansing rain from the heavens. Hell is from below.❤

What's that adapter you have plugged into the mic socket?

Awesome. Thank you

It depends how you’ll be using it on 40M and 80M because of the height - you’ll be mostly radiating NVIS as it how I’m using it on those band. If you elevate the unit - you’ll get DX on those bands too!

I mount this on top of the 25' porta mast hooked up to my truck hitch receiver. For quick deployment to performance ratio, it is a winner.

Mine developed the aggravating lines on the screen... Liked the radio...

Get you a bhi dsp module and that radio will come alive. As good as my IC-7300 with the bhi.

I agree 100% This is what I use. I added a cross-bubble level to the top for quick setup, and hang a weight from the center on windy days.

Thank You for sharing this. I only became aware of JS8 a few months ago, when I watched a video that covered listen-only mode, using just a computer and a radio. I hope to be trying out the procedures that were described in the video, but I have not yet downloaded any of the software, and I have not verified that an old radio that I have will receive the appropriate frequencies that are used. For many years I have thought about, and devised other methods of disseminating digital information via radio and other means, but I had no idea that folks had come up with JS8 and allegedly have been utilizing it for some time.

Cool, just got this one. I'll get some stuff for it.

Thank you very much for spending a couple of days with us, we had a blast.

Thanks for coming out

I ended up getting a 10 oz weight. The system I obtained has a 14 oz weight, which is a little much for my spindly, girly-man arms.

This has also intrigued me since i was young. Just cant follow the tones fast enough im sure its easier with tine but takes a keen ear. Im in process of grtting my tech ticket next month

Digital frequency thingadingy 😂😂😂😂😂

I live in a HOA so I put it up and take it down on a regular basis works great on 20M

Very cool! I have almost the exact same thing setup at my qth as my permanent antenna. Its about 140 feet of wire in a horizontal triangle up about 20ft over my house. At the feed point I'm using an ldg 4:1 unun fed with 50 ohm coax but no choke on mine. I have about 75ft of coax back to the radio and don't seem to get rf back in the shack. It resonates on 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m, and 6m. Looks like it could easily do the WARC bands with a tuner. Loops are quickly becoming my favorite kind of antenna. You get more harmonics, slight gain over a dipole, and good noise rejection. I made a 20m loop for my pota ops, in conjunction with a 12m spiderbeam. I find it is 3-4 s units quiter than my end fed half wave which everyone is fawning over these days. I was wondering if it were possible to put 40m of wire on that mast and so its great to see an example. 73s

Nice looking setup Phillip.

Can't wait to meet you at field day Phillip. Love the videos. Moe-KO4GBB

I was rather surprised how many FT8/FT4 contacts I was able to make during the solar flare event. A fraction of the usual, but signals WERE getting through. Shows just how robust the mode is. Good choice, bringing the Yaesu...this is no time for QRP!

33 contacts in 5 hours. Rough.

It's a Honda Ridgeline, not a Toyota. Oopsie.

Well said. Bands were D-E-A-D.

Nice work! 73!

What kind of tubes it use on final stage ??

Thanks for the contact, Phil {US-2175} . Nice antenna setup for sure, I just ordered a hitch mount for my flag on the back of my camping trailer. Thinking I will need to get another for the POTA antenna. Hope to catch you again soon when you activate again. 73 K9BBQ

Very nice antenna setup. I need to get a field table. All the best 73s.

Always fun to play with antenna designs. I can't wait to hear how it works. 73s.

Nice to hear your CQ call. Hope I will be able to hear it on air some day. Started coming back on CW after a long gap with paddles bought from a local ham. I was a regular CW DXer a few decades back with straight key. 73 de Jon, VU2JO.

So my question is when can you avoid using the loading coil? I am a newby!!

Looking good... 👍

Can you give a link to the table

Where can one find these mast clamps! And are they vinyl or black powder coatefd stainless? Chris VA3COJ

Nice, the Cha TDL does pretty good for me. I’ve tried elevated and ground mounted but never on the same day from the same location so no real comparisons as to performance advantage. I like the TDL because it works as well as the MPAS vertical configurations without having to string out counterpoise. I’m liking that hitch mount, I’ll have to look it up. I use a drive on mount but an extended hitch mount would be nice to try.

First of - the bundle of coax on the left is actually choking your RF! Use a smaller one or spread evenly around the area. It will ‘destroy” your SWR.