Congrats on getting your license, and fun to hear it's first time learning about SOTA! The main sota website is www.sota.org.uk.. If you're interested, I also have a SOTA getting started playlist which may help. Please reach out if questions. 73
Great video James! I also did my first SOTA with a Beofeng, with a similar experience. Not much of an upgrade but now using a Radioddity GS-5B. Probably time for me to get a better HT. 73
Thank you, and appreciate you sharing your story as well! Think there's a lot of us who use one to start, and love that we use what we have and learn from it. I was definitely impressed with the FT70 on the second summit due to filtering and more sensitive receiver, especially since I was so reliant on 2m contacts early on before getting general license. Thanks again for comments, and have a great weekend! 73
Most cheap radios actually are quite sensitive on V/UHF. But if you are on a mountain some of them have transmitters nearby and it will affect a radio with a barn door style front end, like cheap Boafengs etc.
Agree... I'm usually surprised at how well cheaper radios are, but better filtering and superhet receivers seem to work better. For me it was good learning to experience, and then compare the radios on my second (and other) summits. Hope you have a great weekend!
(-: smiled a bit this am when saw the comment. While it get's many of us in the hobby to learn about... I will say, when first bought a Baofeng... it was a massive step up from the bubble pack GMRS/FRS Motorola radios I spent too much money on previously. (-: 73, and have a great weekend!
I had the same thing happen to me in my second or third SOTA 😂 I have a couple different Yaesus, a Kenwood and a Alinco I use these depending on how I feel.
Thank you Fred for sharing your experience as well, along with your radios used! I have an Alinco as well for 220, and that is a good brand...of course Kenwood definitely is as well! (-: BTW, it's been fun to see a 2 new activators in our local Puget Sound area this week... just heard from another person who activated the first time today!
LOL...Thank you Mike! I'm so glad you were able to activate the summit, and thank you for asking the question! I completely understood and it hit home since I had the exact same experience. (-: I need to be better about sharing lessons learned with shorter simply edited videos, and got inspired to try doing one quickly last night. Even had fun playing with Microsofts AI image generator for the first time.. (-: 73, and will be great to see you at Field Day!
You did not provide any evidence at all as to the superiority of the radios you recommend. Do we know for a fact that they are more sensitive? Or was his Baofeng overloaded (experiencing desense) where he was on the summit? Gee, if you could demonstrate a Yaesu FT60 copying signals where the Baofeng fails that would be more convincing than just saying to buy a more expensive radio. By the way, the FT70 is also made in China. 73 de k2xt
Hello Rick and appreciate the comment. Purpose of this video was to share what most SOTA activators learn pretty quickly through experience. Being overloaded, limited filtering, direct conversion receive, etc. are definitely things that work against you when on summit and I've experiences through testing and hearing from others. N7KOM has a video about the same topic with FT60 comparison ruclips.net/video/vkd07g7AmBQ/видео.htmlsi=trKQMh2SkQq_lDW_ and at some point I may do similar comparison... since I've had the same experience on summit with Baofeng hearing half or less than what FT70 did. (-: Hope you have a great rest of the weekend! 73, James
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New licensed Ham here. This is my first time hearing about SOTA. I will have to look it up.
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Congrats on getting your license, and fun to hear it's first time learning about SOTA! The main sota website is www.sota.org.uk.. If you're interested, I also have a SOTA getting started playlist which may help. Please reach out if questions. 73
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Great video James! I also did my first SOTA with a Beofeng, with a similar experience. Not much of an upgrade but now using a Radioddity GS-5B. Probably time for me to get a better HT. 73
Thank you, and appreciate you sharing your story as well! Think there's a lot of us who use one to start, and love that we use what we have and learn from it. I was definitely impressed with the FT70 on the second summit due to filtering and more sensitive receiver, especially since I was so reliant on 2m contacts early on before getting general license. Thanks again for comments, and have a great weekend! 73
Most cheap radios actually are quite sensitive on V/UHF. But if you are on a mountain some of them have transmitters nearby and it will affect a radio with a barn door style front end, like cheap Boafengs etc.
Agree... I'm usually surprised at how well cheaper radios are, but better filtering and superhet receivers seem to work better. For me it was good learning to experience, and then compare the radios on my second (and other) summits. Hope you have a great weekend!
If you have a Baofeng radio it's impossible to downgrade.
(-: smiled a bit this am when saw the comment. While it get's many of us in the hobby to learn about... I will say, when first bought a Baofeng... it was a massive step up from the bubble pack GMRS/FRS Motorola radios I spent too much money on previously. (-: 73, and have a great weekend!
I had the same thing happen to me in my second or third SOTA 😂
I have a couple different Yaesus, a Kenwood and a Alinco I use these depending on how I feel.
Thank you Fred for sharing your experience as well, along with your radios used! I have an Alinco as well for 220, and that is a good brand...of course Kenwood definitely is as well! (-: BTW, it's been fun to see a 2 new activators in our local Puget Sound area this week... just heard from another person who activated the first time today!
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Good job James. I'm glad I could give you an idea for a topic.😁
LOL...Thank you Mike! I'm so glad you were able to activate the summit, and thank you for asking the question! I completely understood and it hit home since I had the exact same experience. (-: I need to be better about sharing lessons learned with shorter simply edited videos, and got inspired to try doing one quickly last night. Even had fun playing with Microsofts AI image generator for the first time.. (-: 73, and will be great to see you at Field Day!
You did not provide any evidence at all as to the superiority of the radios you recommend. Do we know for a fact that they are more sensitive? Or was his Baofeng overloaded (experiencing desense) where he was on the summit?
Gee, if you could demonstrate a Yaesu FT60 copying signals where the Baofeng fails that would be more convincing than just saying to buy a more expensive radio. By the way, the FT70 is also made in China. 73 de k2xt
Hello Rick and appreciate the comment. Purpose of this video was to share what most SOTA activators learn pretty quickly through experience. Being overloaded, limited filtering, direct conversion receive, etc. are definitely things that work against you when on summit and I've experiences through testing and hearing from others. N7KOM has a video about the same topic with FT60 comparison ruclips.net/video/vkd07g7AmBQ/видео.htmlsi=trKQMh2SkQq_lDW_ and at some point I may do similar comparison... since I've had the same experience on summit with Baofeng hearing half or less than what FT70 did. (-: Hope you have a great rest of the weekend! 73, James