Thanks, I just saw a video of a ham using a fishing pole and a wire hanging down off his hotel balcony getting contacts from all over "Hanging a Random Wire Antenna from a Hotel Balcony"
Don't dump your HF on the road. HF is the world. Without internet UHF/VHF simplex is the neighborhood. There are plenty of magloops for portable use. I know they are a pain if you are a SSB phone frequency hopper, but if you are a digital operator there is hardly a better solution. Isotron antennas are very compact for 20m and up, and they aren't as high Q as magloops. KM4ACK has lots of good ideas for go-bags. My bag is based on an FT-857D. On a trip where I was going to be for a few days I took my FT-817ND and wad of magnet wire ripped out of a TV, a tape measure, electrical tape, coax to banana adapter, and a 10ft piece of RG-58. I bought a 1in dia stick of PVC for a center support. I made a 20m inverted-V and kept a schedule between California and Florida.
I have a SDS-200Uniden scanner it has a GPS and as I'm going from county to county or state to state the scanner well program automatically so you don't have to reprogram the scanner. I wish amateur radios could do that, by GPS and be program as you are going down the road, based on your GPS location
I often set to 2m calling frequency while rolling down the road. The automatic look up for repeaters would be cool but of course there's the inevitable question of keeping the records current.
Thanks, I just saw a video of a ham using a fishing pole and a wire hanging down off his hotel balcony getting contacts from all over "Hanging a Random Wire Antenna from a Hotel Balcony"
Yo,love it, that's amaizng upload!catch you later- )
Very well done video. Hopefully, we will see you here in Maine someday in your travels. DE WA1KLI
Don't dump your HF on the road.
HF is the world. Without internet UHF/VHF simplex is the neighborhood.
There are plenty of magloops for portable use. I know they are a pain if you are a SSB phone frequency hopper, but if you are a digital operator there is hardly a better solution.
Isotron antennas are very compact for 20m and up, and they aren't as high Q as magloops.
KM4ACK has lots of good ideas for go-bags. My bag is based on an FT-857D.
On a trip where I was going to be for a few days I took my FT-817ND and wad of magnet wire ripped out of a TV, a tape measure, electrical tape, coax to banana adapter, and a 10ft piece of RG-58. I bought a 1in dia stick of PVC for a center support. I made a 20m inverted-V and kept a schedule between California and Florida.
I have a SDS-200Uniden scanner it has a GPS and as I'm going from county to county or state to state the scanner well program automatically so you don't have to reprogram the scanner.
I wish amateur radios could do that, by GPS and be program as you are going down the road, based on your GPS location
I often set to 2m calling frequency while rolling down the road. The automatic look up for repeaters would be cool but of course there's the inevitable question of keeping the records current.
@@KD8TTE Thanks for the reply that I do agree with you on