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Welcome to WY6Y, where I dive into the fascinating world of decentralized communications! This channel is all about learning, experimenting, and sharing knowledge on ham radio, GMRS, and Meshtastic. I’m not a professional, but I have a passion for exploring these technologies, and I’m always open to learning from my mistakes. Whether you're a beginner or just curious about how these systems work, you’ll find plenty of hands-on experimentation here. Join me as I embrace challenges and discover new insights about how we can stay connected without relying on traditional networks.
Xiegu G90 Winlink Off Grid Winter FIeld Day 2025
In this video, I will use my Xiegu G90 ham radio to participate in a simulated emergency test for Winter Field Day 2025. I will be using the ham radio email application Winlink to send different forms over the HF airwaves. I am only using emergency backup power in the form of my homebrew LiFePO4 batteries, which I took from my solar shed. I’m the kind of guy who likes to use whatever I have on hand for the project I’m working on, so for the PC monitor, I used a 6” monitor I sometimes use with a raspberry PI and a mini-bluetooth keyboard/trackpad. To power the Beelink mini-pc, I used an inverter I pulled out of a piece of old photo equipment. Obviously the small monitor and keyboard made t...
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December 2024 Oklahoma Meshtastic Meeting of the Meshers
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The December 2024 Oklahoma Meshtastic Meeting of the Meshers at Wilshire Gun Range in Oklahoma City. 00:00 Intro to Team Organization with Roy Hooper KJ5IUL 4 Suggested Teams Team 1: Training and Knowledge Team 2: Technical Systems Team Team 3: Community and Agency Relationships Team 4: Network Deployment Team 08:10 Fixed Station Development Group - Standardized Development Builds 11:10 Pilot P...
Oklahoma Meshtastic Group January 2025 Meeting
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The January 2025 Oklahoma Meshtastic Group Meeting of the Meshers at Wilishire Gun in Oklahoma City. Today we discussed the newest node at the grain elevator in downtown Edmond. We discussed general setting for first time node setup, and we discussed router roles. Chapters 00:00 Hello KJ5IUL Roy Hooper 03:00 Jeff Scoville AE5ME explains best settings for setting up a new node 19:30 Filters 46:4...
Ham Radio Antenna in the Attic?
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Attic Antennas for Ham Radio: My Experience For various reasons, my first ham radio antennas ended up in my attic. Living under an HOA, I was worried about being noticed, and I wasn't ready to commit to the effort of installing an outdoor antenna if I wasn't sure I'd enjoy the hobby. So, do they work? Surprisingly, yes. My dual-band 2m/70cm antennas were great for hitting local repeaters, and m...
Ammo Can Case for the Xiegu G90 Ham Radio
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Ammo Can Case for the Xiegu G90 Ham Radio
WinLink Express Setup - Download - Account Creation - Start a Session - Configure BTECH UV-PRO
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WinLink Express Setup - Download - Account Creation - Start a Session - Configure BTECH UV-PRO
Using the BTECH UV-PRO KISS TNC with WinLink on a PC
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Using the BTECH UV-PRO KISS TNC with WinLink on a PC
The BTECH UV-PRO Sending E-Mail Over the Air Using the Internal KISS TNC and RadioMail
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The BTECH UV-PRO Sending E-Mail Over the Air Using the Internal KISS TNC and RadioMail
BTECH UV PRO Initial setup KISS TNC Radiomail APRS Bluetooth Speaker/MIC
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BTECH UV PRO Initial setup KISS TNC Radiomail APRS Bluetooth Speaker/MIC
Backyard Portable Ham Radio Ops - Solar Shed -- Doublet Antenna -- 80m Trivia 3916
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Backyard Portable Ham Radio Ops - Solar Shed Doublet Antenna 80m Trivia 3916
Ham Radio - What’s That Noise - VARA HF and FT8 - Over the Air Dialup
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Ham Radio - What’s That Noise - VARA HF and FT8 - Over the Air Dialup
Deploying a Wire Antenna into A Pretty Tall Tree and A Brief Tour of the WY6Y Antenna Farm
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Deploying a Wire Antenna into A Pretty Tall Tree and A Brief Tour of the WY6Y Antenna Farm
Using a TYT TH9800 with a Digirig for Winlink and Echolink
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Using a TYT TH9800 with a Digirig for Winlink and Echolink
Glad to see your experience. I have a G90 as well. I also have used it with Winlink/VARA HF. I was able to send an email home when I was activating for POTA and camping at a state park without wifi or cell service. I also have my batteries charged by solar only when I use them for POTA. I also would like to see another computer option than the Windows PC. I don't have a Raspberry Pi but I do have a couple of PCs that I use with Linux and would like to use them for Winlink. I use JS8Call on those mostly. Anyway, glad you had some fun on WFD. 73 K5MGK
Thanks for watching man. I like JS8 call too and it is cross platform. I just don’t find it as reliable as VARA.
For a Tiny PC, get a Windows Surface Pro with a keyboard. Super portable and long battery life. It's about the size of an iPad Pro 11
Nice. Looks like they have a refurb on Amazon for about $199. Thanks for the suggestion. 73 WY6Y
Winlink works via Wine on Linux. I've also heard of Pat, a crossplatform Winlink client, but i've also heard it has some issues
Yes, I’ve used Winlink variations on other OS, but never VARA modem. Have you been able to get VARA to work on Linux? That would be pretty rad. Never could get it to work using Wine. 🍷 73 WY6Y
What did u use to hold the faceplate on the top level ?? Thx. Great job.
LOL. You spotted the one major flaw I had at the time of taping. Good eye. I ended up bending a couple scraps of copper flashing I had, drilled a hole through both sides, and secured it with a few washers in the holes that are there on the head unit for the bumper guards. It actually worked very well and the copper is a nice touch on the Leopard wood. 73 WY6Y
If you take the battery off the beltclip is easy to put on.
@@TheOrangekrate why the hell did I not think to try that. 😆🤣🤷♂️
Its a great radio, had mine a few months now and its way better than Baofeng etc. LA5TSA
Roger Roger. I just got your winlink message from across the pond! Great little radio. 73 my friend. WY6Y
Wow you did a really great job on this video! It's always a good idea to put a few snap-on toroids on The wire that feeds the thermostat. I had a situation where when I turned on my transmitter I noticed after a couple hours it was getting kind of cold in the house😂 and a couple of toroids fixed it very quickly and easily! All the Best! 73 DE W8LV BILL.
@@w8lvradio thank you for the compliment. Snap on toroids are very popular at my house. 73 WY6Y
What do you expect the range on this to be?
My friend KP4DJT created a map on hamradiomobile and it looks like the radius is about 20 miles.
@WY6Y-s3v nice! Some friends of mine are wanting to do this but we have range concerns.
@@WY6Y-s3v do you know the height of the silo roughly ? Also curious about the terrain in your area?
@@minutemandefense3935 we are up about 130'. We are in Oklahoma City so we are almost entirely flat to the naked eye. There are topo changes that have adverse effects on RX/TX, but they are hard to see unless you are riding a bike and discover one of our hidden hills. 😂
PLEASE lose that loud music! It is distracting and takes away from the professionalism. Otherwise, great video!
Welcome to the Antenna in the Attic Club - 73, KC1RVK
Proud member. 73
I live in an apartment. So needless to say that I'm not allowed to have outside antennas. But no problem I use a radioddity HF 008 portable mag mount on a piece of 2&1/2 by 3 ft of plate steel in my closet on the second floor. It works pretty well for a compromised antenna. I'm also on top of a pretty tall hill so that factors in. I want to put some kind of wire antenna indoors either a efhw or a random wire. However I don't have an attic to use. So hopefully I can get away with it running across the ceiling. Ive eliminated the RFI by adding an LDG 1:1 common mode choke. With 100 watts or less and this indoor antenna and I can work the world!!! 73🙂
Nice!!! My favorite antenna is a jerry rigged antenna in an unlikely spot. I’ve also heard of people in apartments using folded dipoles but an EFHW will do it. Just make sure if you are doing FT8 to turn the power down when your fillings start getting hot. 🤣🤣. Have you thought about using a telescoping whip with a loading coil on your balcony? Or you could build a magnetic loop, which i have never used. Glad you are on the air man! 73 WY6Y
Ive got the vgc n76 (basically the same thing). Im not impressed with the battery at all. In 10 hours of continuous monitoring without gps or APRS, the battery was down at 30%. At the same time, another ht i have, a anytone d168uv turned on exactly at the same time an monitoring the same frequencies, after 10 hours from the three bars that it has, was still with the three( down at two after 12 hours). The other battery i have, charged full yesterday, and today when I've put it in the ht was down at 75%( strange).
Wow. Ive had much better luck with the battery on my end.
@@WY6Y-s3vand how about the sound quality? I find it very static. A lot of white noise on receive. I also have another ht, a Anytone d168 uv and the audio is far superior, even without the noise reducción función (quality wise, not volume) . Today I'll test it along side one of my baofengs
@@mihaigeanta5110 I’ve been very happy with the sound quality. I find it to be fuller even than my Yaesu FT70D. I prefer the UV-Pro in almost every regard to the Yaesu
Just turned on mine here in Stillwater, I’ve had it off for a while. glad to see more people getting involved.-tor Would be neat to see automated weather alerts on the mesh would be cool to see. This is Oklahoma after all.
I believe there are a few members of our group that are working on that.
The devs behind meshtastic have turned me from the project entirely, I went to other protocols on lora
@@mega-nerd which other protocols do you have in mind. I’m genuinely curious
@@WY6Y-s3v ripple mesh, and meshcore was just announced. My home mesh is my own creation, which is just an encrypted chat server with tft_espi ui for display, with all of my real orchestration left to a fastapi web app I have previously made for my home security system.
@@WY6Y-s3v Ripple, meshcore. I run my own work for myself. I tried to expand more but youtube auto deleted.
@@WY6Y-s3v I cannot see any comments I posted back, sorry I give up
@@mega-nerd I don’t understand? Your comments aren’t showing up?
Very nice!
Thank you
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73 Buddy!
yea it was
Awesome! That's the perfect spot. Did you know whoever owns it or how did you go about getting permission to put one up there? I emailed Dwain's a while ago about it but never heard anything back. I've got DWB a few blocks south east of there.
Our buddy Chuck KC4DJT is friends with them. Very grateful for the access.
SWEEEEEET!!!!! 🥳👏🏼👏🏼 Very nice my friend, very nice! I heard you when you were up there. I was actually on my roof fixing mine at that same time!
ROGER ROGER. It was miserable up there today but it is LIVE!
Right on bro! That climb up is NO JOKE! Hope it starts connecting everyone really well. 73 WY6Y
Excellent video but in some parts it’s difficult to hear you over the music.
When I was still living at home I was under the usual rules of mounting nothing on the house, so my first thought was to put it inside the roof space. My license at that time was limited to 2m & 70cm so I had a log periodic setup on a rotator (horizontal) and several vertical antennas for packet and voice. The roof was tile and there was no metal film insulation so there was no issue with strange RF effects on items in the house. The main advantage of this style is that no one will ever know what you have there and you never have to worry about waterproofing anything! So my current house has a metal roof, and that aluminium lined insulation that makes it impossible to hide anything in the roof space. Give it a try, you might have great success or it might be a disaster, but you won't know unless you try...
Unfortunately, I recently got a new roof and I opted for radiant barrier film and it has degraded the signal further, but not unusable. Especially on 2m/70cm. I can still hit all my repeaters with ease, but there is definitely more “snow” in the audio.
I have an EFHW that I have in my attic in a square formation and it works brilliantly. Its resonant on 40m but my ATU tunes it no problem and I get out all around the world. I have an Arrow on a motorised tripod for VHF and UHF working Satellites and the results arent as good
Will it work under a corrugated iron roof?
I’d say it would be very problematic. You could probably tune up the roof to be the antenna though. There’s a good experiment for ya.
@@WY6Y-s3v Interesting. Thanks.
@ I know there have been people who’ve done it. You’d probably have the best luck with a manual antenna tuner that has sockets for open wire feedline. Just take a couple alligator clips and tune that roof up.
Enjoyed the video. I’ve been using a couple of portable antennas outdoors, but would like to get something up more permanent in order to operate indoors. Enjoyed the video.
What kind of portable antennas do you use? I have a 17’ telescopic whip and a loading coil that I use sometimes. 73
Awesome job!
Thanks man. It was fun.
Huh...my comment is gone.. weird
Hmmmmm. Wasn’t me. I welcome all comments good or bad. Try again. WY6Y
@@WY6Y-s3v Well it was about the Audio/the way you talk. I would suggest that you either speak with more consistant volume (Or fix it in software, i think its called a compressor) and/or turn down the music volume down a bit. Around minute 2 and 3 i really had problems to understand you. With using Headphones instead of my Speakers it got a bit better but still.. Maybe you could try to speak with more energy? I am a bloody beginner with hamradio here in germany and would really appreciate to see new modern quality Videos about ham radio
For my own efforts, see foxmikehotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Howell_AtticDipole_TSM_Feb2022-2.pdf
Wow
Thanks buddy! 73 WY6Y
Nice work, de AB9CM
Thank you buddy. 73 WY6Y
For VHF an antenna will work but your coverage may not be great. If you have an HF antenna it will also work but again your coverage may be limited.
That has been my experience. I can hit every repeater I want to on VHF UHF but there is some snow in the audio. For HF, SSB is very noisy, but digital modes really shine. 73 WY6Y
Have you tried it?
@@Redbelly357 Yes many years ago.
Several years ago I lived in a deed restricted community. Stuffed a Comet H422 in a V config on it's side suspended by Dacron cord, and made a small stand for a Cushcraft AR270. Lost about 15-20mi range on 2m/70cm. The Comet did pretty well making contacts to Eastern EU from NJ. This was with a IC-9100, and IC-705 using PSK31.
I don't "need" to see this, because I've got a compromise G5RV Jr in my attic and I'm running at most 25w on 40m, 13 on 20m, 10 on 15m and about 6w on 10. Was off the air for close to 30 years, got back on November 22. Since then, I've got 48 states (ironically, one is NH, I got AK on 10m), 47 countries, including Australia, Japan, East Kiribiti, all over Europe, South America, Caribbean from central NY. Over 700 QSOs since then. Going to install an EFHW up there eventually - two probably - second one will be for 30/17/12. Oh... and just today I put a 2/440 j-pole up there too! Attic antennas work for sure as you and I both know from personal experience. 73, John N2LCX
Right on John. I’m curious about how the G5RV works in the attic. How do you have the ribbon line configured?
How do I get one?!? De K2SCH
Maybe when I get another week off I’ll make a batch of them. 73 WY6Y
I LOVE the EMCOMM III!!! Great video, many thanks!!
Indeed it is a very well made and well functioning antenna. 73 WY6Y
Great job!! Robert K5TPC
Thank you Robert. 73 WY6Y
Nicely done. One of the cleanest HF go boxes I've seen on youtube.
Thank you mucho for the compliment. I tried to keep it pretty simple. I need to find a TRRS passthrough for the Digirig cord. Thats the one drawback at the moment. Thanks for watching!
Mute the APRS on your side- edit the APRS channel and select digital mute in there and save the channel. Now when you receive APRS, it will flip over to it and the LED will turn green, but it is muted.
I’ve been having trouble getting Digital Mute to work. When I turn it on, it does one of two things. Either it does not mute it and I still hear it, or it mutes it so much, I stop picking up packets. Any ideas?
@@WY6Y-s3v Make sure you are doing it by editing the channel itself for the APRS to select digital mute, not on the main menu radio settings or wherever, which affects the main channel you selected and not the APRS. The mute is just for the speaker, it doesn't affect packet decoding. Maybe check your squelch level, that may be causing you trouble with packet decoding.
I have a similar setup in my 99 Passat and 91 Jetta
@@Tacurongcity2001 it’s a good setup. It will work in anything
Great idea! I live in a Forrest and you just saved me. Thanks 😊
Fishing rod works well too
As long as it is a 50ft fishing rod
@ when I climbed trees I used a 3ft rod with 50lb line and a 3oz weight. I would launch over 150ft trees. 3ft rod homie.
@ yeah I suppose if you’ve got a good swing and aim, it would be pretty effective as long as you don’t get snagged.
Must be only a wire antenna
Yes, 130’ of wire
I see no antenna
Here’s the full video. It’s a 130’ end fed wire antenna. I use the throwline to get over the tree and then just hook the antenna on and pull it through.
HF Ham Radio Antennas ruclips.net/p/PLC0XMRvWRcA3l0swQbGTYEIVLix42iaJI
Every time before you launch, you must yell, *”For Camelot!”*
I like it!
The noise when you un key comes back when i power cycle the radio, does yours do that? Any idea how to get rid of it?
Mine was, but I went into Radio Settings -> PTT Release and checked None
Good stuff Dad…. Randy Lewis…. KF8BSC. Clio, Michigan..
73 de WY6Y. THANKS FOR WATCHING
What type of antennae do you use for this application?? Very cool….
This is what is called an End Fed Antenna. It is 130’ long and works on the 80m - 10m wavelengths. The benefit of an end fed antenna is that you don’t have to connect it to the coax in the middle. Just at the end, hence the name. I’ve used this one to talk to people around the world.
My Father called me over, and asked me if I would shoot an arrow attached to a cord over some trees so he could set up his ham radio tower. It was awesome and he happy as could be.
Yes that works too. I have an arborist friend and this is his method.
The Notch big shot. I love mine
Yep. Sure beats trying to Nolan Ryan it over a 50 foot tree when you’re 40 years old. 😄
@WY6Y-s3v two-handed underhand cradle or one handed underhand pendulum would work just as well for height. Where the Big shot shines is accuracy. I'll have to check out more of your content never seen the equipment used this way.
@ I’m afraid I’m just not that coordinated 🤣 Yeah the big shot has made a huge difference for me to be able to get long wire antennas in trees for me and my friends. Usually on the first shot. It is insanely easy to aim, that is for sure. Here is the full video. Thanks for watching. Deploying a Wire Antenna into A Pretty Tall Tree and A Brief Tour of the WY6Y Antenna Farm ruclips.net/video/1nzcV7IUEdo/видео.html
I got hurt really badly. I had a severe double concussion. Parts of my memory were simply deleted. Simple things such as my getting married, my kids being born. But I also forgot how to play drums and bass. I no longer remember anything about ham radio operations. I remember my call sign. It's KI4TAM. I have a couple Icom radios. But other than turning them on. I don't remember the operations. Weird huh?
Sorry to hear that buddy. Well, if there is anything I can do to refresh your memory let me know. I’m willing to make on demand videos about ham radio if you have questions
Nice work! I picked you up on my Zenith Transoceanic tonight doing trivia on 80M.
Right on man! You caught me on a WINNING night.