Tomdavis6547 I agree. I find his humor and passion contagious. He always makes me smile even when working on the most mundane projects. I think it is because he always looks like he is enjoying himself.
Love it. That starduster is very clever. I once heard that when trimming a dipole not to aim for perfect center because you'll end up with slightly worse SWR but wider bandwidth.
Great work ! The bands in NY,USA has been great ! I even got a NY to England on CB . Just a piece of Coax up to meter pole. T2LT antenna I made for a friend. Was tuning and testing it. Great band with and low 1.1 SWR on EU CB band and like 1.4 SWR on CH 40 of the UK CB band, Just cut a piece of RG 8X and made a antenna out of it. Friend has it now. Loves the tune I got . Cheers from NY !
Drooling over the space you have available for antenna's. Makes my paltry backyard efforts look like a joke...I thought three poles was enough, obviously, I was wrong.
Hi Callum, I hear there are meds for a bent banana, but I never worried about it. The idea of getting the three verticals up high is a winner! I always had great results with 10 meters up off the ground, but in the city, it seemed it attracted negative reactions for some strange reason. I wish I had known more about fan antennas back when I started in 1973, especially fan vertical antennas! I had been gifted a four band trap vertical that started out owned by my Elmer neighbor who spent many hours educating me in ham radio after school. Unfortunately, I spent too much time fiddling and rebuilding it over the decades, and I would get it working for a while, but wet weather would cause it to go crazy and the SWR would go way high! I have finally scrapped the antenna, and built my devils tuning fork. So far, I have a 40/15 meter main antenna, a 20 meter antenna to the side and a 30/10 meter antenna on the opposite side of the 20 meter antenna. Now that I have that going, I am setting up my restored Kenwood transceiver to try it on! I have heard that if you have a 3/4 wave antenna, it has a little gain over a 1/4 wave antenna, 10 and 15 meters could use the help!
Hello Lord Callum: I just love the way you explain your designs. Are you shure you weren't previously an auto mechanic. The way you work those spaner wrenches is amusing. On a serious note I love the way your designs go from the computer into your antenna testing field. For me sir the farmers animals in his field is so relaxing. Outside of the plane traffic it's quite peaceful so you can concentrate on your work. God Bless Callum, & my best wishes to Wendy and the dogs. TMP, Unit 22 from N.J.
Tell her that we are paying for it! Lol. Seriously I would put down a deposit if it would help. I really want a 10m above the ground for my new property in the country.
This is getting close to an idea I had, which was a multi-band T2LT flowerpot antenna. I've mentioned it to Tim before. Basically I was looking at creating a T2LT, but then making it into a fan dipole. I was going to try an upper and lower leg dipole connected in the middle, but I had thought the same as you, just use the same bottom leg and take the impedance hit in having it a bit off-centre fed. Another idea I thought of was the same as yours, but having three different tuned radials for the three bands. I had this thought as the V2000 has a 6m tuned radial on top of 2m and 70cm, and there's that discone that has multiple elements tuned for different bands. Now you have a hinge, maybe you could experiment with the three different sized radials to see how it compares in terms of VSWR.
Anyone would think that you actually planned the angle of dangle with the hinge so that it rested exactly on the fence Callum. Or was it just good luck ? 😆
Hi Cal, That was an Airbus 380. Can't mistake the shape of that fuselage. Now that you will have a 20m yagi up soon, I'm off the air since I had to sell my FTdx10. 😞 I do have a Flex 1500 around here, but that is only 5W output. Will have to make due until my finances get back to normal. I'm praying I won't have to sell my home. You and the family stay safe. 73 WJ3U
That mostly full antenna field is amazing. The projects are coming along nicely. I know the planes annoy you but they don't come through on the video as very loud.
Yes, luckily I have discovered a special effect in Davinci Resolve which is essentially AI and I can remove 100% background noise. I don't - I leave it just so.. But that's an easy fix most recently!
Callum always comes across as such a nice and cheerful guy, that it's nice to see him complain about the airplanes. It shows he's as close to human as ham radio operators can get!
Interesting - Perhaps a Signature 9 built on top of some spacer poles, or using the top portion of a Signature 18 but including tuned multi-band grounds perhaps using something like rotator cabling? Could be draped on supporting guy cables - that would give multi band high performance in a small garden (back yard here over that puddle) feasibility? I use old rotator cable for tuned "radials" on my ancient Hy-Gain 18AVT/WB-S 5btv (sixties vintage) which would work much better raised at least a couple yards (meters) or so - but I would think a Sig-9 up about 3 meters using a 12.4's the main pole would be even better - (no loss from traps) and still give 6-40 meters coverage.
HI Cal, very easy for me to sit here watching and think stuff up. I know the loading on the top is already high, still SO impressed with how much the poles will take. Anyway. Might not be important. What if you added lightweight spreaders to the kevlar radials (tuned to 15m) and added 10 and 12m tuned radials in DX10? Obviously you would need to connect the small spreader bars around the radials to stop them spinning around. This would give you a full tune on where you want it in the band. Obviously I have no idea if it would make any difference, you may well have considered it and abandoned the thought. As I say, please excuse me for sitting here and commenting on something that might be difficult to do, just think it is better I do than not. I SO wish my land was free from Power lines as I could do similar experiments here. Still having fun experimenting with the 12m etc though. Regards, Chris.
It wouldn't make any difference other than skew the pattern in the direction of the "radial".. Offsetting the feedpoint still keeps everything below 1.2:1 and means... well, you know what it means, you watched the video LOL!
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Tomdavis6547 I agree. I find his humor and passion contagious. He always makes me smile even when working on the most mundane projects. I think it is because he always looks like he is enjoying himself.
He is Me :)
@@DXCommanderHQ hehe
Gotta love the wild Callum videos... Still think David Attenborough needs to be doing the voice overs though....
Now THAT would be fun!
Great video Callum. Its all coming along nicely. 👍🏽
Thanks 👍
Love it. That starduster is very clever. I once heard that when trimming a dipole not to aim for perfect center because you'll end up with slightly worse SWR but wider bandwidth.
Ah. I didn't know that!
Great work ! The bands in NY,USA has been great ! I even got a NY to England on CB . Just a piece of Coax up to meter pole. T2LT antenna I made for a friend. Was tuning and testing it. Great band with and low 1.1 SWR on EU CB band and like 1.4 SWR on CH 40 of the UK CB band, Just cut a piece of RG 8X and made a antenna out of it. Friend has it now. Loves the tune I got . Cheers from NY !
Brilliant!
Just got my signature 12.4 in today from DX engineering! Excited to get it up and running 📡
FAB!
The Banana Peeler!
Name: BananaDuster or BananaBuster hehe. Looking good Callum 73 Joe
Bananabuster! LOL
Drooling over the space you have available for antenna's. Makes my paltry backyard efforts look like a joke...I thought three poles was enough, obviously, I was wrong.
I spent 15 years with a small back of the house.. Instead, I put on huge field events..
Hi Callum, I hear there are meds for a bent banana, but I never worried about it.
The idea of getting the three verticals up high is a winner! I always had great results with 10 meters up off the ground, but in the city, it seemed it attracted negative reactions for some strange reason.
I wish I had known more about fan antennas back when I started in 1973, especially fan vertical antennas! I had been gifted a four band trap vertical that started out owned by my Elmer neighbor who spent many hours educating me in ham radio after school. Unfortunately, I spent too much time fiddling and rebuilding it over the decades, and I would get it working for a while, but wet weather would cause it to go crazy and the SWR would go way high! I have finally scrapped the antenna, and built my devils tuning fork. So far, I have a 40/15 meter main antenna, a 20 meter antenna to the side and a 30/10 meter antenna on the opposite side of the 20 meter antenna.
Now that I have that going, I am setting up my restored Kenwood transceiver to try it on! I have heard that if you have a 3/4 wave antenna, it has a little gain over a 1/4 wave antenna, 10 and 15 meters could use the help!
The JOY of fenceposts! (to bang on)
That antenna was superb. I remember watching the live stream when you used it in a contest.
Oh and yes, A380, Emirates ;)
Yes, it was quite a brew!
Hello Lord Callum: I just love the way you explain your designs. Are you shure you weren't previously an auto mechanic. The way you work those spaner wrenches is amusing. On a serious note I love the way your designs go from the computer into your antenna
testing field. For me sir the farmers animals in his field is so relaxing. Outside of the plane traffic it's quite peaceful so you can concentrate on your work. God Bless Callum, & my best wishes to Wendy and the dogs. TMP, Unit 22 from N.J.
Awe! Always a lovely comment. Thanks for the love.
You had aircraft noise there and I had aircraft noise here. Phookin stereo mate. 😂
I’ve been waiting for this!! Maybe offer a retrofit kit for those with 12.4 Signatures already! I’d buy one today!
I will spec one out.. Need to stock some nylon bolts. Wendy's gonna have a melt-down!
Tell her that we are paying for it! Lol. Seriously I would put down a deposit if it would help. I really want a 10m above the ground for my new property in the country.
Introducing the new "Tri-Band Bananna".
HAHA
@@DXCommanderHQ Just need to make the top pole sections bananna yellow.
It's a gain antenna. One more Banana!
This is getting close to an idea I had, which was a multi-band T2LT flowerpot antenna. I've mentioned it to Tim before. Basically I was looking at creating a T2LT, but then making it into a fan dipole. I was going to try an upper and lower leg dipole connected in the middle, but I had thought the same as you, just use the same bottom leg and take the impedance hit in having it a bit off-centre fed.
Another idea I thought of was the same as yours, but having three different tuned radials for the three bands. I had this thought as the V2000 has a 6m tuned radial on top of 2m and 70cm, and there's that discone that has multiple elements tuned for different bands. Now you have a hinge, maybe you could experiment with the three different sized radials to see how it compares in terms of VSWR.
That would work too. Just looks awful HAHA!
Anyone would think that you actually planned the angle of dangle with the hinge so that it rested exactly on the fence Callum.
Or was it just good luck ? 😆
Looked like a C-5 Galaxy. I saw a C-17 in one of your other videos, you must be near one of the Air Force bases.
Nope, C-5 has a t-tail, like the C-17
The DX Pulsar.
Coming soon , the high performance ADSB antenna from DX Commander 😄
I get 100km with a random bit of wire adsb
@@markwilliams5654 And I get 250 Miles with a decent antenna
@@markwilliams5654 I get 250+ miles with a decent antenna
Hi Cal,
That was an Airbus 380. Can't mistake the shape of that fuselage. Now that you will have a 20m yagi up soon, I'm off the air since I had to sell my FTdx10. 😞 I do have a Flex 1500 around here, but that is only 5W output. Will have to make due until my finances get back to normal. I'm praying I won't have to sell my home. You and the family stay safe. 73 WJ3U
Bet you on 5W and my Yagi Don, we could make it work!!!
You like me, breaking things, stop that pal
🤣🤘
HAHA
Thanks for sharing another fail. Now we can feel normal LoL 🎉😂😊
😁
That mostly full antenna field is amazing. The projects are coming along nicely. I know the planes annoy you but they don't come through on the video as very loud.
Yes, luckily I have discovered a special effect in Davinci Resolve which is essentially AI and I can remove 100% background noise. I don't - I leave it just so.. But that's an easy fix most recently!
@@DXCommanderHQ We like the aeroplanes!
Callum always comes across as such a nice and cheerful guy, that it's nice to see him complain about the airplanes. It shows he's as close to human as ham radio operators can get!
Seeing as you already have Nebula I think more space themed names are needed, Galaxy or Galaxia, Cosmos, Astrum, Cosmic, Quasar, Supernova
I like it! Actually John, the site manager thought of the "Galactic".. But I'm not so sure LOL!!
@@DXCommanderHQ maybe you should ask Emily for a name again LoL
I have to ask, how many pairs of glasses do you have? 😁
Haha.. You spotted the continuity error! LOL!
Lol. I thought the same 😂
the new flexible antenna "Bananna Commander"
Top Banana
Interesting -
Perhaps a Signature 9 built on top of some spacer poles, or using the top portion of a Signature 18 but including tuned multi-band grounds perhaps using something like rotator cabling? Could be draped on supporting guy cables - that would give multi band high performance in a small garden (back yard here over that puddle) feasibility?
I use old rotator cable for tuned "radials" on my ancient Hy-Gain 18AVT/WB-S 5btv (sixties vintage) which would work much better raised at least a couple yards (meters) or so - but I would think a Sig-9 up about 3 meters using a 12.4's the main pole would be even better - (no loss from traps) and still give 6-40 meters coverage.
I know.. SO MANY options!
Thought of another name, probably already suggested.
The DXC-TRIDENT
The name is the DX dominator
Oh John! I Love it!!
That sounds like a CB antenna.
The antenna name is Hamkenstein
73
M7LDK
"Stretch" for short? (sorry for the pun involved)
HAHA!!!
Geeze!
If it’s a kit it has to be called Eartha
Surely save that one for a grounding kit.
COme on Tim.. You can do better than that LOL!!
HI Cal, very easy for me to sit here watching and think stuff up. I know the loading on the top is already high, still SO impressed with how much the poles will take.
Anyway.
Might not be important.
What if you added lightweight spreaders to the kevlar radials (tuned to 15m) and added 10 and 12m tuned radials in DX10? Obviously you would need to connect the small spreader bars around the radials to stop them spinning around. This would give you a full tune on where you want it in the band.
Obviously I have no idea if it would make any difference, you may well have considered it and abandoned the thought.
As I say, please excuse me for sitting here and commenting on something that might be difficult to do, just think it is better I do than not.
I SO wish my land was free from Power lines as I could do similar experiments here. Still having fun experimenting with the 12m etc though.
Regards, Chris.
It wouldn't make any difference other than skew the pattern in the direction of the "radial".. Offsetting the feedpoint still keeps everything below 1.2:1 and means... well, you know what it means, you watched the video LOL!
@@DXCommanderHQ Thanks for explaining Cal. I am sure I will come up with a good idea one Day 🙂
When do the fields go on sale in the shop so we can all have as much fun experimenting :)
Hey.. When the complete multi-2 station is operating, I will have special "radio open days" if you want to come and operate..
You'll be able to compete against the CQWW big guns with the antenna field
Not sure about that. We'll still be weak on 160m and possibly 80m..!
@@DXCommanderHQ What happened to the long wire?
The 'Boomer Wang'
HAHA Brilliant :)
THis will became the same antennapark as KE5EE in the future 🙂
The feather duster.
As far as a name . . . is Starduster trademarked? Might want to call it the Horizon because the 5deg is so strong. Horizon 12, Horizon 18.
Weird.. I thought of that but then went off the idea since that name was an old favorite science program I used to enjoy on BBC.
How about calling it the
DC Commander Cloud.?
DX Dominator! (courtesy of John NJ4Z)
You need a can of WD-40! Do you have that over there? It’s handy for stuff like that. (If not, I should send you some!)
Yes Tyler - but that means I would have to walk back to the shop.. And I happened to have the Vaseline there LOL!
Can use a CRT yoke deflection core for end fed unun . If possible make a video about this
Not my field sorry..
@@DXCommanderHQ Ok no problem.
Bantenna!
Proper engineering, twat it on a fence post 😃
It is a A380
Yes.. And the audio: The noise difference is quite different..!
@@DXCommanderHQ It's BIG!
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