The Faraday cloth seems to work the same as window screen, it's just easier to handle. I have a bunch of Wolf River stuff, I'm going to try that inside.
I'm moving into an apartment right now and I was trying to figure how to antenna. This video came out right on time! Going to have to try this out. Thanks Mike!
Ron, Get a piece of "faraday cloth" (maybe not using those terms, use "conductive fabric" instead). VBR did a test and it's a much more elegant and easy solution, no scratching things up, packs nearly, and it works just as well.
Really appreciate episodes like this. So many of us have to live with highly compromised antennas for one reason or another. So it's good to see you exploring solutions like this!
It does work. I used a "Texas Bug Catcher" coil, alumnum foil rolled out in an "X" under a metal mixing bowel that had a bumper mount connector in the middle of it's bottom. Oh, and a telescopic section above the coil. I worked 40 and above with that on my aparment livingroom floor using 50 watts from my Ten Tec Scout.
Awesome Mike. I just picked up Michael's latest gadget which is Faraday cloth. Gonna try it tomorrow for support your parks along with the 17' whip. The Faraday cloth is conductive and does not roll up like that. Since it is more cloth like, it just folds up. Anyway, great video. BTW, that is an awesome T-Shirt you had on. Fits you to a T. 🤣
Have you found if it tends to favor a particular direction? I’d like to stick something like this out of my 2nd floor window and it would be on an angle too. Tnx de WB3CFN!
My (ground floor) apartment is just about long enough for a 20m dipole. I set up an inverted V using just a painters pole, and I could pick up FT8 signals from all over North America, and even some in Europe! You're absolutely right, it is a compromise, but what matters is getting on the air. There's still plenty to do!
Thanks for confirming the YL net on 14.332 still active. I was a regular on it when I was ZC4MO way back in 1969. Happy to give the YL's what was often a new country for their log. Ian G4JIU
That’s great! A while ago I threw a wire inside the apartment and worked Croatia, Italy on FT8. FT8 does some magic, unfortunately for me I have no interest in it
I know. People keep telling me about it as if I didn't already know. I even pinned a comment at the top saying I know about faraday cloth and they're still coming in. But yes, I'm sure the faraday cloth industry is seeing a big boom in sales right now.
This was really cool and a super trick way for people to get on the air if they are in very compromised conditions. But, please, don't get me wrong here, but when you start making SSB contacts using this setup, then I'll be impressed. A lot of us don't do digital for all the already known reasons. 😁
In some countries (like Brazil and Germany) they use armored concrete for apartment structure, which blocks most RF. So, if you're outside USA and Canada, or if you're on a tall building with steel flooring and ceiling, you might have trouble with any indoor antenna (even mag loops). But it is always worth a try!
👍😀It was a nice addition to superimpose the B roll video on to the TV screen. I know you mentioned that you were messing around with some of the effects in DaVinci Resolve.
Thanks--added a WRC mini to my WRC Collection of stuff--that and the 78"antenna Now I have all three! Will try with Faraday Cloth in hotel room and Xeigu G-90 to see how it shakes out. If all there is is FT 8, 4 and JS 8 Call, etc--then its a start at least.
Thank You for your Video on the Apt antenna, it's a problem I am luck enough to be able to install an en Fed in a U format cut to 7.1 Mhz, outside (6th Floor) that works great for SSB ... we need more video's like your's, thank you.
Thanks for the video, good info. I am a new ham Technician and have a HT. Looking into 10 m and need a simple yet effective antenna. This looks like just the thing I was looking for. I can even put it outside in the yard at my house and also take it with me to the park.
I’d like to see it too. As a mobile operator, I suspect my station wagon roof provides a similar square footage for my ATAS-120A on a 3 magnet mount. I’m chasing Mobile DXCC but stuck at 57 different DX entities.
I live in NYC and am space limited at the house. There are 6 POTA parks in this Borough (Staten Island). So I’m thinking I can mount the WRC on the roof of my Suburban with the MFJ mag mount and have some success. Thanks for your videos they are very helpful. KE2CQF 73
If you happen to be in a building with concrete and real bricks, there still is a solution (if you have terrace for example), or if your can hang a wire to a tree and have an L antenna. Lots can be done unless you are in a high-rise building with reinforced concrete and no trees nor any terrace now that's not good (you still have the solution to go mobile or portable). Any piece of metal in the air will send your signal. You may need an artificial ground device, and or an ATU, but you will have contacts. I did lots of experiments, sometimes mind blowing contacts. One good advice : never give up, there's ALWAYS a solution.
I was in an apartment and when I used an indoor (or even an outdoor) antenna, I popped the AFCI breakers in my apartment and those around me. I could get by with about a watt though.
I'm going to have to try this in a hotel room on my next business trip. A mag loop didn't here much in the room. It will be interesting to see if some more capture area helps.
Thanx, that WAS cool, showing it IS possible using even an indoor antenna! Great info & interesting abt the Wolf River Coil antenna, too! 73 de WA4ELW in TN 🇺🇸 dit dit 😃
Previous Mike: I don't see myself taking a screen window with me when I go out portable. At Lowes Mike: Ma'am, what is the longest length of window screen I can buy? 😂😂😂
Lol!! I actually took the screen out to the park on Saturday too. It's pretty darn easy to set up vs. the 3, 33' wires. A bunch of pine needles did get stuck in it though.
I have the same WRC soda and I got a screen.. rent a room in a house and at night I set it up in my room works good.. but in the day time I put it in the back yard just outside my room and wow you do get much more ..I wish I could leave it out side all the time.. my brother owns the house and told me he would be willing to mount it on the house for me but I am not sure how that would work without the screen cant use that if its on a pole.
Excellent idea! Probably be a good idea to add a 10,000 Watt Amplifier and put it on your night stand right next to your head! And as long as you keep screwing around with this crap you will always live in an apartment!
Thanks for the tip. Now that MFJ has shut down and the MFJ-1624 Apartment Antenna is no longer available I am looking for any solution I can get. My one doubt is that you did this in a HOUSE. Which probably has a wood frame. I live in an actual apartment building, with NO BALCONY that probably has iron girders or iron rebar in the walls. So it will more likely work as a big Faraday Cage.
Ok, great video, great info abt possibilities, even with an indoor antenna! And while I certainly appreciate the technology using FT8, when I hear u (or anyone) refer to "making a contact," I always pause & think to myself, did YOU make a contact or did "something else" make it for u?🤔(Of course, I know the answer!) But perhaps most importantly, I'm NOT downing FT-8, as it IS a contact, yes; it just feels a bit impersonal, a bit detached, lacking that one-on-one feeling of a traditional QSO...
Have you heard of Faraday cloth? It's supposed to be as good as metal screening but folds and unfolds like a blanket. (N0 Curl factor to contend with) Also great for POTA/SOTA. I'll be QRP tomorrow and try to join you on the air. It's a shame I'll have to miss the food though!
@@hamradiotube Well, to be honest, I just found out about it about a week ago even though it's been around for years. As far as my apt. goes. I live in a 100 yr old building with lathe & plaster, chicken wire walls. Nothing gets out of here. I'll have to build the dreaded loop. LOL
I'm curious how "short" the screen plane can be and still be useful. I'm just getting started and reading and youtubing around a lot to learn what's what; I also have no idea if I'll ever be able to set up a "good" HF antenna, so I'm fascinated by experiments like this.
I think KB9VBR has set the world ablaze with this setup. And now with the Faraday cloth. I just took this setup out yesterday for a POTA outing I hosted and it was stupid easy to setup. I actually liked it more than the radials as far as setup goes. Way faster. The only downside is I got a bunch of pine needles in it when I was winding it back up that I had to deal with, but it wasn't that big of a deal.
Way cool, I was wondering about that. While I'm not restricted by an HOA for an outside antenna, I do have a limitation with power lines above me running parallel with the center line of the house, and too small of a yard to run a wire antenna. I have an indoor 2M/70cm antenna setup and I was wondering if an indoor HF could be done. I have vaulted ceilings and I could probably get away with a 17ft telescopic antenna on my Ranger 80. 73 KN6VMK
Mike! Bro, do you even bwahahahahahaha . . . I started laughing the minute I saw your shirt, lol. Hilarious! Nice video, Sir. Pretty smart hammin', there. I'm all choked up, lol. See what I did there? See you out there. 73 de Bill
I want to learn how to get my evolve to look like that. I have two FT8 contacts and I don't know how i got them verified. Love all you guys and your videoes. Thanks!
Unfortunately, another problem I have is that my apartment building has _just too much RF noise_ in it, probably from my Internet provider's equipment. Additionally, the space in my apartment is only 3.12 metres high. 73 VE7NDE
Mike, it looks to me like you have your Noise Reduction or Autonotch turned on on your radio. These functions tend to "blur" the FT8 signals on your waterfall. 73 VE3GKT
I suspect you'd have to try it yourself and find out. Although if you have a shorter balcony than 12 feet, as is the length of this screen, you may be able to cut it in half and widen it to say, 2, 6' lengths for example. Technically the individual length of ground radials doesn't matter as much as just the amount of over all metal (wire) that is out. I did a series of videos ruclips.net/p/PLvjQnyd_Fwboa7vAxPOndP_Q5GyE_EZzU experimenting with more, but shorter radials that you may find helpful.
I have the Mad Dog 80 coil indoors on a magic carpet, but I'm getting 3+ SWR readings using the IC-705 on all bands. Do I need to ground the magic carpet? Why the SWR is in the red? Can't seem to figure it out ... 73
Can this antenna cut down on TV interference problems? I was using a g5rv antenna indoors and I had a TV interference problem will the antenna that you have cut down on TV interference?
Sad you have to explain one must use metal, not plastic screen. I live in a Faraday cage, 2nd floor in a 3 story building, with a covered walkway between my unit and the edge of the walk, no window close to uncovered space. Worst possible scenario. With a long wire, mag loop, and anything else I've tried, on two different field days I was lucky to hear 2 stations, and could not contact one.
I am lost? Making contacts via a computer? Where is the Mic.? Still have my call sign but not been active. Things sure have changed. Can this indoor antenna system be used with a regular HF radio without the computer?
Will this work for shortwave listening? I have a little portable and live just outside the city and need something... i was recommended a magnetic loop antenna because of all the noise but am looking for something cheaper and more portable just for receiving...
Yes. It was. And it's all Franks fault, damnit!! I did just buy an M1 MacBook Air to remedy my portable computer situation, but...to get to your question...Hmmm, for me I'd still rock the shorter radials. Though I don't have the experience with the magic carpet out in the field like KB9VBR has in terms of how well it works, from a pure size factor, I'd still take the wire. I'm not trying to roll up a window screen and shove it into my radio go bag. It's just too big. Never mind all the pieces of wire sticking out from the screen that want to latch onto everything like a velcro you never asked for. This gives me ideas. But I do know this, DO NOT LET FRANK NEAR YOUR COMPUTER!!!
Hi Mike, this is Rob wa2fmh. Where did you buy this antenna? I would appreciate it if you could take a minute and please let me know, as I live in a ground floor apartment and this might be my answer. Thank you so much. 73s Rob, wa2fmh.
Yes, I have heard of Faraday Cloth.
UT5UF is from Ukraine, but the W6 prefix means he's operating from the 6-call region of the US (California).
Exactly, that shows he was a foreign station operating in California at the time of the contact.
Hey Mike, Michael is now using Faraday Cloth instead of the Stainless Steel screen. The cloth seems to work just as good and it’s way more portable.
I know.
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The Faraday cloth seems to work the same as window screen, it's just easier to handle. I have a bunch of Wolf River stuff, I'm going to try that inside.
I was going to say "in B4"... Might have to change it to "in after".
😂
So could you make yourself a set of clothes with Faraday cloth and then use yourself as a ground plane for a handheld?
I'm moving into an apartment right now and I was trying to figure how to antenna. This video came out right on time! Going to have to try this out. Thanks Mike!
Well how do you like them apples!
Ron,
Get a piece of "faraday cloth" (maybe not using those terms, use "conductive fabric" instead). VBR did a test and it's a much more elegant and easy solution, no scratching things up, packs nearly, and it works just as well.
@@jamess1787where can you get conductive cloth. I have asked at fabric stores and they have never heard of it.
Really appreciate episodes like this. So many of us have to live with highly compromised antennas for one reason or another. So it's good to see you exploring solutions like this!
It does work. I used a "Texas Bug Catcher" coil, alumnum foil rolled out in an "X" under a metal mixing bowel that had a bumper mount connector in the middle of it's bottom. Oh, and a telescopic section above the coil. I worked 40 and above with that on my aparment livingroom floor using 50 watts from my Ten Tec Scout.
dude the tv in the back animating everything is totally cool
Awesome Mike. I just picked up Michael's latest gadget which is Faraday cloth. Gonna try it tomorrow for support your parks along with the 17' whip. The Faraday cloth is conductive and does not roll up like that. Since it is more cloth like, it just folds up. Anyway, great video. BTW, that is an awesome T-Shirt you had on. Fits you to a T. 🤣
I just got made some very close and I've got to try it this weekend doing a park on the Just to see how it works 73 KQ4AHR
There's always a way. Did it once as a demo. It worked. Put it by a window or better yet out on the balcony and performance will likely improve.
I live in a condo. I use a telescopic whip on the balcony sticking out at a angle. Works fine
Have you found if it tends to favor a particular direction? I’d like to stick something like this out of my 2nd floor window and it would be on an angle too. Tnx de WB3CFN!
I liked how you had the antenna components pop up on the TV in the background. Very nice.
Thank you very much!
My (ground floor) apartment is just about long enough for a 20m dipole. I set up an inverted V using just a painters pole, and I could pick up FT8 signals from all over North America, and even some in Europe!
You're absolutely right, it is a compromise, but what matters is getting on the air. There's still plenty to do!
Howz it do with SSB?
@@nealbeach4947 haven't tried SSB yet... I'm more interested in digital comms and also learning CW
Awesome! That’s a neat way to take advantage of the smaller size of the WRC SOTA Special.
Thanks for confirming the YL net on 14.332 still active. I was a regular on it when I was ZC4MO way back in 1969. Happy to give the YL's what was often a new country for their log.
Ian G4JIU
Great video, practical for people with housing with restrictions.
That’s great! A while ago I threw a wire inside the apartment and worked Croatia, Italy on FT8. FT8 does some magic, unfortunately for me I have no interest in it
Just found your channel here with this video. Subscribed just because I like the shirt.
The amount of faraday cloth purchased this week must have been astronomical. Going to get the SOTA special and the faraday cloth going on POTA soon!
I know. People keep telling me about it as if I didn't already know. I even pinned a comment at the top saying I know about faraday cloth and they're still coming in. But yes, I'm sure the faraday cloth industry is seeing a big boom in sales right now.
Ha! I just moved to Conroe! New to ham radio and loving your videos.
Awesome metal screen antenna. I dabble in crystal radio and AM DXing. Ham radio seems like a good way to meet guy friends 👍
This was really cool and a super trick way for people to get on the air if they are in very compromised conditions. But, please, don't get me wrong here, but when you start making SSB contacts using this setup, then I'll be impressed. A lot of us don't do digital for all the already known reasons. 😁
In some countries (like Brazil and Germany) they use armored concrete for apartment structure, which blocks most RF.
So, if you're outside USA and Canada, or if you're on a tall building with steel flooring and ceiling, you might have trouble with any indoor antenna (even mag loops). But it is always worth a try!
👍😀It was a nice addition to superimpose the B roll video on to the TV screen. I know you mentioned that you were messing around with some of the effects in DaVinci Resolve.
I'm dipping my toes in the Fusion page. It's pretty fun to be able to do more cool effects like that.
Thanks--added a WRC mini to my WRC Collection of stuff--that and the 78"antenna Now I have all three! Will try with Faraday Cloth in hotel room and Xeigu G-90 to see how it shakes out. If all there is is FT 8, 4 and JS 8 Call, etc--then its a start at least.
Thank You for your Video on the Apt antenna, it's a problem I am luck enough to be able to install an en Fed in a U format cut to 7.1 Mhz, outside (6th Floor) that works great for SSB ... we need more video's like your's, thank you.
That phone screen / wallpaper is awesome
Thanks for the video, good info. I am a new ham Technician and have a HT. Looking into 10 m and need a simple yet effective antenna. This looks like just the thing I was looking for. I can even put it outside in the yard at my house and also take it with me to the park.
I just completed editing a paper on why the screen work. Size and deployment make a difference. It will be a u tube vid soon
Glenn N6JAI
I want to see that.
I’d like to see it too. As a mobile operator, I suspect my station wagon roof provides a similar square footage for my ATAS-120A on a 3 magnet mount. I’m chasing Mobile DXCC but stuck at 57 different DX entities.
I third that motion for the video.
i love the arnold impersonation.... DO IT NOW!!!
Great info. Now I can operate and screw the HOA!
Thanks for the video and really cool! Looking to get back into ham radio after being away for years! 73s.
I live in NYC and am space limited at the house. There are 6 POTA parks in this Borough (Staten Island). So I’m thinking I can mount the WRC on the roof of my Suburban with the MFJ mag mount and have some success. Thanks for your videos they are very helpful. KE2CQF 73
If you happen to be in a building with concrete and real bricks, there still is a solution (if you have terrace for example), or if your can hang a wire to a tree and have an L antenna. Lots can be done unless you are in a high-rise building with reinforced concrete and no trees nor any terrace now that's not good (you still have the solution to go mobile or portable).
Any piece of metal in the air will send your signal. You may need an artificial ground device, and or an ATU, but you will have contacts. I did lots of experiments, sometimes mind blowing contacts.
One good advice : never give up, there's ALWAYS a solution.
Hey if all you have is inside you do what you have to do. Nice!
I was in an apartment and when I used an indoor (or even an outdoor) antenna, I popped the AFCI breakers in my apartment and those around me. I could get by with about a watt though.
Oh wow, that sucks.
Good deal thanks Mike, that is exactly the antenna setup i am going to use for POTA. An FT-891 into a WRC sota antenna package.
73
KE0IKG
Imagine reaching Europe on the power of a Christmas tree light, not the whole string, just one type C bulb. Imagine no one on 2M believing it, lol
Faraday cloth is much easier to deal with (in the field).
I got ahold of some a while back, interesting stuff.
I'm going to have to try this in a hotel room on my next business trip. A mag loop didn't here much in the room. It will be interesting to see if some more capture area helps.
If you can set it up outside I would forgo the coil and get a remote tuner. Never tried this but you could adjust the impedance from inside. 🤔
love the aprs shirt mike 🤣
It's the best!
Thanx, that WAS cool, showing it IS possible using even an indoor antenna! Great info & interesting abt the Wolf River Coil antenna, too! 73 de WA4ELW in TN 🇺🇸 dit dit 😃
Previous Mike: I don't see myself taking a screen window with me when I go out portable.
At Lowes Mike: Ma'am, what is the longest length of window screen I can buy? 😂😂😂
Lol!! I actually took the screen out to the park on Saturday too. It's pretty darn easy to set up vs. the 3, 33' wires. A bunch of pine needles did get stuck in it though.
@@hamradiotube Yep. Radials are the devil.
Mike, Just think of the pine needles as camouflage. 😅
Joe KB9RCR
Need to find some hams in my area, ITS KILLING ME !!
PS.thank you for the videos man, I appreciate it🎉
Now I need a magnetic loop. A big one!
I just tried this with the Faraday cloth and successfully hunted a pota in Nova Scotia from Rhode Island
I have the same WRC soda and I got a screen.. rent a room in a house and at night I set it up in my room works good.. but in the day time I put it in the back yard just outside my room and wow you do get much more ..I wish I could leave it out side all the time.. my brother owns the house and told me he would be willing to mount it on the house for me but I am not sure how that would work without the screen cant use that if its on a pole.
Excellent idea! Probably be a good idea to add a 10,000 Watt Amplifier and put it on your night stand right next to your head! And as long as you keep screwing around with this crap you will always live in an apartment!
Thanks for the tip. Now that MFJ has shut down and the MFJ-1624 Apartment Antenna is no longer available I am looking for any solution I can get.
My one doubt is that you did this in a HOUSE. Which probably has a wood frame. I live in an actual apartment building, with NO BALCONY that probably has iron girders or iron rebar in the walls. So it will more likely work as a big Faraday Cage.
Something that is more compact and convenient is called Faraday Cloth. Folds up compact and has no "memory"... Doug
Mike...get to the choppa!!!
Cool stuff Mike, Thanks
Ok, great video, great info abt possibilities, even with an indoor antenna! And while I certainly appreciate the technology using FT8, when I hear u (or anyone) refer to "making a contact," I always pause & think to myself, did YOU make a contact or did "something else" make it for u?🤔(Of course, I know the answer!) But perhaps most importantly, I'm NOT downing FT-8, as it IS a contact, yes; it just feels a bit impersonal, a bit detached, lacking that one-on-one feeling of a traditional QSO...
Have you heard of Faraday cloth? It's supposed to be as good as metal screening but folds and unfolds like a blanket. (N0 Curl factor to contend with) Also great for POTA/SOTA. I'll be QRP tomorrow and try to join you on the air. It's a shame I'll have to miss the food though!
Yes. I knew of it before this video but now you're about the 10th person to mention it lol!
@@hamradiotube Well, to be honest, I just found out about it about a week ago even though it's been around for years. As far as my apt. goes. I live in a 100 yr old building with lathe & plaster, chicken wire walls. Nothing gets out of here. I'll have to build the dreaded loop. LOL
good stuff! hope see this and go hey i can do this from my apartment
Thanks for this!
JuSt moved from a house to an apartment, so this is very timely. Thanks so much! BTW, what is the software on the PC?
LOVE the t-shirt!!
I'm curious how "short" the screen plane can be and still be useful. I'm just getting started and reading and youtubing around a lot to learn what's what; I also have no idea if I'll ever be able to set up a "good" HF antenna, so I'm fascinated by experiments like this.
Well done, Mike. I have a friend who uses a similar setup for POTA activations....out doors of course.
I think KB9VBR has set the world ablaze with this setup. And now with the Faraday cloth. I just took this setup out yesterday for a POTA outing I hosted and it was stupid easy to setup. I actually liked it more than the radials as far as setup goes. Way faster. The only downside is I got a bunch of pine needles in it when I was winding it back up that I had to deal with, but it wasn't that big of a deal.
Way cool, I was wondering about that. While I'm not restricted by an HOA for an outside antenna, I do have a limitation with power lines above me running parallel with the center line of the house, and too small of a yard to run a wire antenna. I have an indoor 2M/70cm antenna setup and I was wondering if an indoor HF could be done. I have vaulted ceilings and I could probably get away with a 17ft telescopic antenna on my Ranger 80.
73 KN6VMK
Heck yeah. Give it a try.
GREAT tutorial!
Try faraday fabric next.
amazing
Amazing but above my skills.
God I wish I had this I’ve had a ft710 for months can’t get hf at all
Love the t-shirt Mike! KB2GCG
Mike! Bro, do you even bwahahahahahaha . . . I started laughing the minute I saw your shirt, lol. Hilarious! Nice video, Sir. Pretty smart hammin', there. I'm all choked up, lol. See what I did there? See you out there. 73 de Bill
Great stuff, time to take a magic carpet ride. What power were you using Mike? Thanks!
10 watts
WOW!
I want to learn how to get my evolve to look like that. I have two FT8 contacts and I don't know how i got them verified. Love all you guys and your videoes. Thanks!
I'm just using WSJT-X and GridTracker. ruclips.net/video/lqBAsOX4Mdg/видео.html
I’m pretty sure if you would have put the antenna closer to the window you would’ve heard more stations.
Awesome shirt!
The best!
Unfortunately, another problem I have is that my apartment building has _just too much RF noise_ in it, probably from my Internet provider's equipment. Additionally, the space in my apartment is only 3.12 metres high.
73 VE7NDE
Is the special sauce the metal screen you put down? That is pretty cool if that is correct.
Use Faraday cloth
Mike, it looks to me like you have your Noise Reduction or Autonotch turned on on your radio. These functions tend to "blur" the FT8 signals on your waterfall. 73 VE3GKT
Noise reduction doesn't effect FT8 but the notch sure does. I also had my AGC on slow. I forgot to #hamharder
Great!
Mike can the screen be cut to size of my balcony?
I suspect you'd have to try it yourself and find out. Although if you have a shorter balcony than 12 feet, as is the length of this screen, you may be able to cut it in half and widen it to say, 2, 6' lengths for example. Technically the individual length of ground radials doesn't matter as much as just the amount of over all metal (wire) that is out. I did a series of videos ruclips.net/p/PLvjQnyd_Fwboa7vAxPOndP_Q5GyE_EZzU experimenting with more, but shorter radials that you may find helpful.
What's wrong with using a magnetic loop antenna, it might have worked even better in this particular situation?
I have the Mad Dog 80 coil indoors on a magic carpet, but I'm getting 3+ SWR readings using the IC-705 on all bands. Do I need to ground the magic carpet? Why the SWR is in the red? Can't seem to figure it out ... 73
Can this antenna cut down on TV interference problems? I was using a g5rv antenna indoors and I had a TV interference problem will the antenna that you have cut down on TV interference?
Can you show how you tuned that in other words how many clicks did you use on the coil to get to each band
Hey Mike - question from a new Ham here- what are the names on the running list at the end of your vids? TY
Why don't you come with me little girl , on a magic carpet ride ! Oops wrong video..
Sad you have to explain one must use metal, not plastic screen.
I live in a Faraday cage, 2nd floor in a 3 story building, with a covered walkway between my unit and the edge of the walk, no window close to uncovered space. Worst possible scenario. With a long wire, mag loop, and anything else I've tried, on two different field days I was lucky to hear 2 stations, and could not contact one.
god job
Thank you
Perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove.
No self respecting Southerner cooks instant grits.
Bro, your shirt! 😂
I am lost? Making contacts via a computer? Where is the Mic.? Still have my call sign but not been active. Things sure have changed. Can this indoor antenna system be used with a regular HF radio without the computer?
Yeah. I was using a regular HF radio. Just using the computer to interface with the radio to do digital modes.
Nope, they can probably hear you around the block... that's about it.
@@hamradiotube Thanks Mike. Would like to get back into radio and try HF but the prices for radios have gone through the roof.
@@flyingthesails6801 You can purchase a 10/12 meter mobile radio pretty cheap. Look at the Anytone or even a QT80 for 10m. Not expensive at all.
Will this work for shortwave listening? I have a little portable and live just outside the city and need something... i was recommended a magnetic loop antenna because of all the noise but am looking for something cheaper and more portable just for receiving...
The evolve was working great until tank broke it.
magic carpet vs short multiple radials comparison?
Yes. It was. And it's all Franks fault, damnit!! I did just buy an M1 MacBook Air to remedy my portable computer situation, but...to get to your question...Hmmm, for me I'd still rock the shorter radials. Though I don't have the experience with the magic carpet out in the field like KB9VBR has in terms of how well it works, from a pure size factor, I'd still take the wire. I'm not trying to roll up a window screen and shove it into my radio go bag. It's just too big. Never mind all the pieces of wire sticking out from the screen that want to latch onto everything like a velcro you never asked for. This gives me ideas. But I do know this, DO NOT LET FRANK NEAR YOUR COMPUTER!!!
As a complete newbie, I am not sure I understand the use of the screen or faraday cloth. Is it necessary?
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Have you transmitted from inside the house thanks
Any reason not to use this outdoors vs the normal counterpoise radials? Seems like a way faster setup.
You absolutely can. Michael, KB9VBR does it all the time.
Hi Mike, this is Rob wa2fmh. Where did you buy this antenna? I would appreciate it if you could take a minute and please let me know, as I live in a ground floor apartment and this might be my answer. Thank you so much. 73s Rob, wa2fmh.
Please use the Metric System.
Oh crap, you're right. I usually do.
Mike What mode are you using? Will phone mode work? 73s from K8JCW
I can imagine a POTA session.