YES YES ! At Last a UK CB contact into the USA (over 6000KM)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- TRY TRY and TRY and it finally paid off with a LSB on 27.385 MHz (Bill) North Carolina USA. Over 6000 KM or almost 4000 Miles on 11 meters. Working conditions were very in and out across the UK after a week of strong signals. Next I need to get the much harder AM contact.
Nice contact Fred, I can relate to that feeling of elation, especially when you get it on camera too! Happy New Year, hope to catch you on air soon!
Thanks, you too!
Cheers Fred for getting me back into radio passed my foundation yesterday with the help of you and other youtube radio opps 73's
Congrats Richard !
Hey Fred, great video, love your enthusiasm for DX! We had London booming in here between Christmas and new years day, the long haul contacts are always fun. I have talked to England, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Germany in recent months, what a blast! It seems most of the operators here call CQ, might help make contact instead of just dropping your call. Hope to make contact with you soon. CQ, DX - CQ, DX, 808 Central Delaware standing by!
Well done. It's 35 years since I got my first USA contact on 11m, and that was Washington state on the west coast. I was 18 at the time :)
Been operating 11 m for many years. My first UK contact was at Christmas. Absolutely amazing. This is 653 Hamilton Ontario Canada 73
Nice one, never leaves you. :-)Edit... Did not realise the 450 could do 5kc steps on ssb, I really missed that when i went from kenwood to yaesu.
Super contax on 11!!! yes I hope the band opens more up, it starting to be fun again 73 2VOW505 Pam Wisconsin
That was bloody brilliant! You literally took me back to the big skip of the late 80s early 90s there! Got that feeling right back! 😀👍 Made up for you bud!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love your videos. I also love your zello channel. Keep it up.
Seem to be the best conditions around Christmas time. 653 Hamilton Ontario Canada. 73
We had a fantastic contact to Miranda State, Venezuela South America on 27/12/2021. 27.615 USB.
Approx 4,600 miles. We were chuffed to bits with the contact, our longest contact yet.
Get in mate, happy day. Happy 2022 and 73s
Nice one Fred.....perseverance is the key mate.....Bob
Thanks Bob old mate
Goodness.. So very cool & so very proud of you. 11meter is amazing!
I got a contact from Hawaii to Korea on CB in the 90s...27mhz is Australia in my Area
Well done Fred, sometimes persistence and being patient pays off, cracking contact for you, hope you can get a few more in the log soon 73s 👍
Awesome contact Fred, my noise level is stupid high here in Canada. Hopefully one of these days I'll have a yagi so ill stand a chance to talk to you..
Look forward to it Greg.
Another great video.
Hi Fred, Well done on your Stateside contact, You certainly have more patience than me. Once again well done.
Nice contact Fred and great DX! Lots of lift on at the minute on the band's.
Absolutely banging Fred! Proper rolla coaster!
That was great. Like your videos. Keep them coming.
Dan. KE8NZI
North Michigan
USA.
Congrats Fred. Had my first contact with the States, the Big Island (Hawaii) a few days ago. Was short one though. Hoping to makes more contacts. 73.
Nice one Fred so pleased for you .keep up the good work mate
I still haven't done it after nearly four decades. I really need to up my game.
Well done Fred, that was a great clear copy to USA.
I had a contact to Australia just before Xmas on the .555. It was flat but I was crossing Halkyn Mountain around 615pm, I just called out prospectively for long domestic checks being flat, nobody came back, but this Australian accent saying he was in Australia. No signal but I got him. I couldn’t believe it, I called back and I said are you in Australia, “yes Australia”!
He was too weak to get a call sign sadly.
I learnt that if you have the elevation, you can punch into the ionosphere.
Never in a million years would I have thought about a contact to Australia, but on the triple 5!!
I can’t even get European copies there because of the competition when the propagation is running.
All the best Andy. Keep up the vids pal. Excellent.
Well done on the Aussie contact.
Nice one Fred, patience paid off in the end, amc113 🏴
USA been in tonight !
Wow well done. I've not heard any myself the last few weeks, I'm in a low spot tho an never home in time. Gutted.
Sorry to hear that
Congratulations Fred Great you made the contact perseverance is the name of the game.
Happy New Year
Thanks, you too!
Im about 45 minutes from the Windsor Detroit border. Most of the time 38LSB is the channel for skip.
When ive made lots of contacts with the U.K. its usually between 5:30 and 8:00 am.
Good luck, hope to hear you out there.
73s
514 Ontario Canada
The sunspot cycle is building. Contacts like this (and further) will become more and more common. Enjoy!
What cb radio is the best to contact people in US and where is the best place to buy them
Congratulations Fred. I am still trying to cross antennas with you guys on the 305 net. Hope springs eternal... It will happen eventually, I am confident of that.
I hope so too!
Good job 👏 love your channel Jeff unit 69 Indiana U.S.A 73’s
Thanks 👍
I like the fact that you didn't just show the qso but also the chase leading up to it. It proves at times the chase sometimes is just as good as the catch 👌
Thanks. The video was actually shot over 3 days with about 10 hours in total of monitoring. Thats radio :-)
@@CB-RADIO-UK I agree if you enjoy radio , you enjoy all aspects.
Well done Fred. That 450D did you well . M7BLC
Well done bud
Congrats on the ' Over the Big Pond ' shot Fred ..!!!
Cheers
Good QSO 2div Fred well done bud ... Happy new year to you and yours - from 29AT120-MICK
One day last week, worked 25 NA stations on 28Mhz, 3 element and 400w...
Verry nice fred , 1 thing you vergot with a ham radio !!!!!!!!
Well done Fred
Nice one Fred. Just a quick question. It’s an old memory that popped into my head. Have you ever tried talking through a mouth organ on the air. I used to do it and had breakers asking where I got it. I said it’s called a metal mickey thunder buster, you can only buy them in music stores. I think I started a trend
Hi John. No i dont think ive ever tried that bud.
Congratzz Fred whit you first QSO to the States ! Yes that's a nice Guy speak to him on the 1e day of this year and made contacts last year whit him.
The longest QSO to the states for me was in 2013 to California and Texas and even got Kansas that year on only a old President Lincoln and 5/8 Vertical whit 150Watts Amp.
Max what i worked as QSO Brazil to 3AT282 Beto and Said 22RC102 Frence Guyana and 112PW118 Lebanon also 50SD844 European Russia lot of times.
Greetings 19RF1231 locator:JO22HB 73's Fred keep up the nice work there !
Do u ever get people from Scotland on Ur ham radio the lady Kate from cantumberey got a man from Lanark in Scotland
Lady Kate oww yes speak to her in Spring may and jun when the conditions are good for 26,29,168divisions from the Netherlands.
Nice woman to speak to and make a QSO, he has also made a QSO whit Sylvia and Ron 104CI200 Corsica Special Napoleon activation event last year they also are very active on 11meters DX .
Hi Matt. I have chatted to Scotland on FM but its very rare.
Well done buddy, I'm in Western Australia and still waiting, how did you go with that radio interference you were working on a year back.
Happy days Fred, catch up with you soon 🎙🎙👍👍
Sure will Dave. I keep missing you on the 4pm.
😎 👍 💥 Nice one Fred.
Nice one! :)
Comes in about 830 am Easter time here
Can you explain more about the signal reports - 5 by 9 etc ? As im not sure what they refer to signal wise
HI Mat. The first part 1-5 is an estimated indication of audio quality. A radio 5 being totally clear and sharp. The 9 part is the peak reading from the signal meter on the radio.
Nice one mate 👍🇺🇸
Nice copy there Mr Fred.
56CT004
GLENN👍
Wait till you copy them on FM dx freq 26.805.. And Australia has been on in some mornings.. From high ground, sometimes strong. Funny how many UK stations come out the woodwork...
Hi sir, may I ask if you were transmitting barefoot or are you using a linear amp.? As of the present skips are good, I've made some contacts with Japan & Guam using my Cobra 29 Ltd Classic running 4 watts & a halfwave vertical. By the way I'm from the Philippines.
No amp just straight out the back of the radio.
good job fred
I notice from your radio readout, it is set to SWR, not RF out. May I ask how much power you are running? When the bad is open you can work the world on very little power, I have worked into the USA and Europe with a 340 DX running 12 watts pep and a DV27 antenna on the car. It all comes down to a good antenna, and the band being open, but 27 mhz along with the 28 mhz band sometime opens up out of the blue. At the moment we are just climbing out of a Sun spot cycle low, so in the coming months/years the band will open. But sometimes, no one is calling, just like the ham bands, you will not get a contact unless you put out a call. Len G8LXI..
Hi Len. The radio was flat out on this video. Actual transmit power can just be made out on the meter above. The end scale is 100w
I think upper sideband is more common in the USA because of the convention “Everything above 14 MHz is USB, everything below 14 MHz is LSB”. Of course both are used on CB but hams & ex-hams typically use USB on CB ch 38 (27.385 MHz).
we use LSB here in the USA on 385
Good show free a have one of them radios it has a good noise blanker on them why you never have it on just wondering
Hi Kenny. I do use it sometimes.
At what time GMT did you make contact? My new 11-meter attic dipole is perpendicular to East-West. Hoping to attempt skip similarly with old FT-101EE. Keep having fun.
Think it was just before 3pm.
Well done mate - what aerial did you use?
Hi. Its a Antron 99 with FireUp top section.
Zzzz here fred on the south coast
Hi Fred enjoying your channel you have got me wanting to get back into radio after many years thinking of a 450 like you got does this set over 11m CBS’s bands or does it have to be modified also what best mobile sub best to buy many thanks john
Hi John. Straight out of the box the radio will not transmit on CB freq and requires a small mod.
Thanks for getting back to me is the mod easy to do
Hi. No probs. I did not do mine. Just google 450D mars mod. Cheers
Nice one Fred CT1162 👍
A quick question about my anttan, my Siro 827 has been blown about a bit latterly. And the screws holding up the top section has got larger and it fell inside it's self. So the swr went really high. So I drilled it ant bolted it together I now have a swr of 1.5 on ch 1 and 2 on 40 on the UK forty that is still safe for the radio isn't it ? Thank you
Hi. Yes your still safe. You could certainly bring that down by tuning the antenna. Just keep an eye on it and dont let in creep beyond 2.5
@@CB-RADIO-UK thank you I did try tuneing it down a bit but the grub screw on tuneing tip didn't want to play. I'm going to wait for replacement parts to come in stock at knights and replace them.
Fred what antenna system did you use for this chat? Tia
Hi Mat. Antron 99 with fire upgrade top. Vids on the setup on the channel bud.
@@CB-RADIO-UK thanks for the reply.
Hi there Fred, I just want you to know that I made an 8,540km contact for the first time with Delta 19 & Mama Charlie from Honolulu, Hawaii all the way here in the Philippines. But this time I used an RM Italy KL300P running around 100+ watts and my antenna is a halfwave Station Master vertical 20 feet above the ground. Congrats on your contact. But may I ask, how many watts are you transmitting with?
I think i was operating on around 70 watts on that video
Nice1 fred
You got an SWR issue or is the TM999 broken, you were showing over 50watts reflected on the meter
The SWR (auto tune) 1.1 is shown on the 450D signal display. The needle swing on the meter is transmit power.
What part of London are you in?
Iam actually just outside.
What Aireal u got up on that
Hi Antron 99 with Fireup upgrade.
Nice video, thanks for awesome video posts, and posting this! So amazing to hear you from here. J.C. what's your Zello app ch. name? Some base stations are converting over to online internet controlled base stations, for usage and listening any plans there?
Hi. The 305 is still on Zello although iam not currently on there myself. ruclips.net/video/N4dQyUztBoQ/видео.html
Hell I’ve been talking to England France all over there check my RUclips out I have them on there
Fred gone do me a big big massive favour gone make a quick video for me on a md100 mic got a new one there and don’t no how to fix the button on the bottom of it can u do the video if u have time please
Hi. Did make a video on the MD100 inc setting the buttons. ruclips.net/video/4qEN3Wfez54/видео.html
Thanks Fred
5:15-5:30 .6:18-6:22, 11:23-11:30…You were getting skip from the U.S. You just weren’t aware of it
Hi. Yes i was aware but i was waiting for the signal to peak.
@@CB-RADIO-UK oh ok
Belter