Failed CW Activation: Literal BUGS & Radio Bugs!
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2023
- San Juan is a decent little hike at over six miles out and back and I wanted it to be my FIRST CW SOTA activation. It didn't work out for me! I still have fun!
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Screw the CW...where did that spider go crawling on you at 9:08? Wowzer!!!!!
I think I knocked it off my neck later. It was a furry leaper. Pretty friendly spider.
Honestly what you are doing here and with the cw corner is really great. I've been making a cw push myself and while videos from people like k4swl and k6ark help inspire, this helps us have something to strive for thats realistic, not someone who's been sending morse code for over a decade. Not a lot of people are secure enough to show the baby steps like this but I think it helps new comers
Thank you!
You said, "Honestly I suck" - um, no, you most certainly do not. You are out there and killing it, man. The fact that you are out there doing it is way cool.
I have definitely have had those kind of activations with POTA, where stuff seems to not work, even when it works at home. I am glad you had the support of Southern California adventurers. Perseverance is key! We are all proud of you, especially about the other decision personally. Keep on running!
7:20 “Your boos mean nothing; I’ve seen what makes you cheer!” 🤣
LOL< yes!
Thanks for taking us along. Not all of us are brave enough to do this. I will learn more CW and do a CW qso one day. I only know a half dozen letters currently.
I enjoyed this one, Josh! It is good to see others that are in the early stages of the Morse code journey out making it happen. I'm hunting and chasing POTA/SOTA using CW mode while I get my copy and sending up to snuff, which is helping me improve much faster than I thought. All the very best, Gordon (KO4AYC)
Mediterranean Red Bugs - an invasive species to SoCal but pretty common here now.
Looks like Boxelder's they come out in the late fall? Hard to see. scott
Minute difference from the box elder buds, but RR Mediterranean Red bug
@@owlcricker-k7ulm Yes likely almost the same bug was my drift. Scott KF0HRF
That might be an SCE weather station and fire camera system. We've been installing them everywhere to break the territory down to micro climates to help us with determining needs for power shut downs in the wind and to minimize that.
This is great!!!!!
Thoughts; Wear a hat that leaves some space between the top of your head and the top of the hat. Dead air space insulates. Reduces chance of sunstroke.
Can you rig a nylon cutting board to hold most of the things you're holding? Maybe add a 1/4-20 socket to it so it will mount on a tripod? It would probably look like a music stand. You can guy a tripod for stability.
Looks like there is enough wind to fly a kite to haul up an antenna. 1/4 wave end fed? Use a screw-in-the-ground dog stake to tie off the kite.
Looking forward to the update video on the issues. Congrats on your health advancements!
Boxelder bugs looking for somewhere to winter, harmless! Have one crawling around my desk right now LOL
I wasn't expecting a "giving up smoking" video, but good for you, and even better to see you getting up the hills. Running, I'm not so sure about 😂
I gave up smoking years ago and was just vaping. But It deserves a call out :D Thanks!
I am really looking forward to elecraft updating the radio to have a less harsh sidetone on the KH1.
The sidetone is fine when you are holding it in your hand. It just sounds harsh when it is being directly fed into a recorder like it is here.
Thomas Witherspoon has nothing worry about🤣🤣🤣
NIce, real classy :D
So finally you are joining the cool kids club and doing CW, congratulations.
Josh, we want to start learning CW in January 24. Thanks for the encouragement. Watching you, I am reminded that one needs to just GET OUT THERE, the skills will only improve. Sorry about the equipment problems - especially after the 3 mike hike. Also congratulations on working to improve your health. Exercise up👍 vaping down 👍. Good luck from S.E. Tn. 73 KQ4IXD
Great video. Thanks Josh. 73
Might not be possible because of how long it would take. But it would be really cool if we could get subtitles for the Morse code to help make sure we are hearing things right. Great content! Loving it. I am jealous of your 2 meter simplex!
That is an eventual goal of mine, but requires me getting better copying!
Clever ending locking us up in storage Josh.
"GET IN THE FRUNK!"
Thanks for the video. Very jealous as we've officially started mobile season for NE Ohio POTA activations.
I had to laugh with your sending 'WE' instead of 'DE'. When I was learning, I got opposite letters like that transposed a lot - W - di dah dah, and D - dah di dit. The letters that I had the most trouble with were L - di dah di dit, and F - di di dah dit.
It is not Ham related but vaping has other problems. Called popcorn Lung it causes changes in the lung. It looks like the lung when inhaling the steam coming from Microwave popcorn. I love the channel. 73 K5JRW John W. retired Respiratory Therapist
Look into that. Vaping only caused that in a specific instance.
Flew over and thru those hills and canyons a lot when i was stationed at MCAF Tustin ... back in 94 95
Those are assasin bugs. You just abut could see my house when you zoomed in over Chino lol
I'm not sure I love the sidetone on that radio. Props for going out and risking it on shaky CW. I just did that at lunch and made an absolute fool of myself at 12WPM. Got the POTA, though, so I'm counting it as a learning experience.
Also, I missed a SOTA activation last week from a one pointer within the Portland OR metro area. I guess we're just not in to FM like socal.
Boxelder bugs! Awesome!
My first activation with my kh1 was rough to. Took me 20 minutes to figure out how to operate with it and by then my fingers were to cold to operate the key at 30 degrees. Got two contacts on it and then finished up on my 891 in the Jeep with the heat running.
Failed SOTA's are a fact of life. I hope that (apart from the bugs) you enjoyed the trip at least.
Josh, keep grinding at the CW ops, it will get more natural!
Does the headphone audio from the KH1 have that 'snapping' sound at key up and key down, or is that just an artifact of recording?
Wow lots of bugs. I need to learn about vhf/uhf. It wasn’t very active in the San Joaquin Valley when I got Tech in April of 2022. Need to learn more about it.
SoCal 2m simplex is pretty reliable when calling. Especially from a spot of some elevation.
Glad to hear you stopped vaping. It may not have the same carcinogens but it can cause popcorn lung.
The popcorn lung was sort of poor investigation, it wasn't found in people that bought commercial off the shelf vapes.
Congrats on kickin' smoking, AND vaping.. I quit smoking a lil less than a year ago, and have been vaping since.. Still bugs me how much miss information there is around vaping, So may people say, (or ask) me "isnt vaping just as bad or worse than smoking" lol
Agreed!!
did you call in air support by mistake?
Box elder bugs! They swarm in Ohio like that in the fall usually too.
he was probably in shock hearing you on CW a bit un expected. He thought no that can't be Josh.
When you get your kh1 back from elecraft, you might try putting your SOTA info into a memory before you go. Just did my first one and I had another summit call me from mount Palomar to me in the eastern part of South Dakota. Having that preprogrammed was a life saver, (at least for my nerves hihi😂). My rig was a mountain topper I put together when they first came out. I documented it but it’s home movie quality not the production quality stuff. 73’s de n5vwn
Great idea and will be in the plan once the feature is unlocked. 👍
Is the moral of the story to always carry a backup rig? Fun video regardless!
The first activation is always the roughest, and the nerves only go down a little with each one. I have yet to get a S2S and only a few P2P while CW. I hope whoever it is goes slow with that first summit identifier. Yikes.
Perhaps RFI from the Weather Station transmitter was the cause?
josh when you are just hangin around the house or what not have a flash light handy and do cw with the flash light to practice.
What do you mean, you probably can’t get the SOTA Goat app anymore? For me it still shows up on the App Store.. 😮
What is the devilry with the hood of your truck opening and no engine??? I had to see that three times before it hit me...
All electric, baby!
Hey there Josh Dave here KJ7QPX those bugs you see there are Boxelder bugs ... native to western states.
Thanks, Josh Dave.
Get to the CHOPAAA!!!
Box Elder bugs is what we call them in MT.
15:30 seems like pretty high SWR
Hey, nice shirt!
Hey, thanks!
Ahhhh yes, the notorious “FCC Bugs.” It’s best to give them a wide berth.
Too bad it wasn't working well enough for you to work Thomas, he could have told you what you were doing wrong with the KH-1.
Well, you saw weevils, and you spoke of weevils, but at least i assume that they were quiet, so you managed to hear no weevil.
I talked to him on the hike down. It wasn’t on me. More to come!
As a ham AND a respiratory therapist I do NOT recommend vape as a way to quit smoking. While less carcinogens they have other big health risks unique to vape.
Kudos on the running though!
I mean this sincerely. What "big" health risks are you seeing? Sources are appreciated, specifically that are studies on real-life use cases. Thank you!
@@HamRadioCrashCourse I appreciate the sincerity. I’ve seen at least one death in my very own ICU directly linked to vaping and they were young and healthy. It would take me a minute to dig up additional sources to link. I think we can all agree that the less chemicals we are all inhaling into our lungs the better. 73 man!
OH yes, I agree! But cigarettes are FAR worse. Speaking as someone who was once addicted to cigarettes, switching to vaping was a live changer, I was sick less, I could breathe better, I had more energy, the list goes on. I appreciate your medical recommendations, but I think when addiction is on the line going with a much better, but not great solution has got to be on the table.
@@HamRadioCrashCourse I too was a heavy smoker and eventually used vaping as a means of quitting "again "and it did indeed help me stop smoking. I too felt much much better for it, initially.
I got to the stage where I was building my own coils, mixing my own juices etc, I even go to the stage that there was no nicotine in the juices.... and then it started, the deep heavy coughing... and it just wouldn't go away until I stopped vaping.
I no longer smoke nor vape for several years now and I feel great...
I agree with Josh that it is the far lesser of the two evils and that vaping is clearly a lesser evil than smoking but at the same time it causes lung problems, at least for me it made me cough , a lot...
I've just gone through some serious surgery which involved making multiple Xrays of my lungs over a period of time and I am happy to say that my lungs are healthy and in good condition. So it goes to show that when you stop there is a chance that the lungs will clear themselves up eventually.
I am not an anti-smoker or anti-vaper but if someone asks my opinion I will happily provide my own case results and suggest that it is best just stop any kind of smoking. There are zero advantages.
Josh keep up the running /walking , you will eventually lose interest in the vaping too and feel even greater..
Great video by the way. It's good too see that things don't always work even for the initiated..
@@kleinbiker1 I seem to hear this all the time but nobody ever seems to be willing or able to link to a good, peer reviewed study.
Yaasssss... Vaping is sooo much better than cigs
Did you ever figure out what was wrong with the KH-1?
Nope, working on it.
Looks like a good MTB trail most of the way.
Yeah. It would have been great with a bike!
Good job on vap free...... I've been nicotine free 2 years Jan 31 2024 🎉
Congrats on quitting vaping!!!!!
Helinox=Best backpacking char
Yep!
Wow!! Great video. I wish I could do the things you do.
I hope you read this comment. I’ve been on hyper drive to do CW POTA lately. Now, many activations and many more Hunts under my belt. Here is what I’ve learned.
1. If hunting and you get “xxx? or x? . . .”. NEVER send anything but your FULL call sign. You are confusing the heck out of activators when they send ?. He even sent “agn x 2” and still got a few letters. FULL call sign only. Remember they are not in your head. They are looking for a logical call sign to write down or type in.
2. The standard activator call is “CQ” “P(S)OTA” “CALL SIGN” No need for “DE” or “WE” :) and certainly no need to send CQ forty two times and your call sign 6 times. Especially in SOTA! The entire US can hear you and they are sitting at a computer knowing your call sign and location waiting for you to finish a ridiculous long CQ. You’re not DXing for some remote station in Taneshyia. CQ, POTA, CALL.
3. DO NOT send “K” at the end. New operators (myself included) have horrible timing and will many times rush the “K” at the end. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been confused by the “end with K guys”.
I think I have it “AG4AK” but something was off so I send “AG4AK?” and then with their poor timing they send. “AG4A KAG4AK” And we have a train wreck on our hands and I’m lost.
Thanks for the tips! And I appreciate you taking the hike with me via RUclips!
Before you know it you'll be in the super secret cool kid CW POTA/SOTA gang with the rest of us morse code weirdos 😂
I hope so!
This is great! Thank you for the video. I haven't made my first CW POTA activation yet but is it nice to see that tough activations happen to us all. Loved the view! Please let us know what the issue was with the KH1 - I'm saving my dollars and hope to purchase one shortly! W1RCY
Without fail there is someone out there on 2m simplex when I do SOTA in SoCal.
It’s great!!
Why the self deprecation… most of us here can’t operate CW.
Well I'm bad at it :D I am completely OK admitting I am not good at CW, but I am working on it.
@@HamRadioCrashCourse but you still gave it a go, that’s what is important. I have an IC-705 and always end up resorting to FT8 when I can’t make enough contacts on SSB. The only way I can operate CW is by cheating with an app on my phone… I should try that sometime.
QSL QSL Roger QRZ? QSL!
Grüße aus DE! :)
Hello!
Wrong kind of bug for cw
You assume that Elecraft equipment is good to go, but high quality is a tenuous mistress.