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Hello I'm Wes AE0OC,
This channel is about my personal journey as a new ham radio operator. It is my hope to inspire other operators both new and old to try new things as I explore some of the many aspects of this wonderful hobby and service.
This channel is about my personal journey as a new ham radio operator. It is my hope to inspire other operators both new and old to try new things as I explore some of the many aspects of this wonderful hobby and service.
Raising a 60' Rohn 25 tower with a falling derrick.
Raising a 60' Rohn 25 tower with a falling derrick.
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Budget solution for removing PL tones on headphones and recordings
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Budget solution for removing PL tones on headphones and recordings
A test run of my audio for net control.
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A test run of my audio for net control.
My 1 year Hamiversary and Net Control for the SMARC Tech net
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My 1 year Hamiversary and Net Control for the SMARC Tech net
SMARC Hamfest in Springfield, MO 6-4-2022
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SMARC Hamfest in Springfield, MO 6-4-2022
Meeting my dad for the first time, the part Ham Radio played
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Meeting my dad for the first time, the part Ham Radio played
SMARC Q2 Tech Day and up coming Hamfests
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SMARC Q2 Tech Day and up coming Hamfests
Paying It Forward to a couple of local Hams
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Paying It Forward to a couple of local Hams
New Station setup, My thoughts on Ham Clubs & work on our storm shelter
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New Station setup, My thoughts on Ham Clubs & work on our storm shelter
Getting the 80 Meter OCFD back on the air
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Getting the 80 Meter OCFD back on the air
My new to me Yagi is proving difficult to identify.
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My new to me Yagi is proving difficult to identify.
My new and improved Push To Talk box. Last chance to enter to win a T-Shirt.
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My new and improved Push To Talk box. Last chance to enter to win a T-Shirt.
A quick look at my new radio & T-Shirt drawing date set.
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A quick look at my new radio & T-Shirt drawing date set.
Giveaway & What do I use for recording?
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Giveaway & What do I use for recording?
SWR? My daughter helps me tune my MFJ Ham Stick
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SWR? My daughter helps me tune my MFJ Ham Stick
Budget Audio Mixer, Phenyx Pro PTX-10 for Ham Radio and YouTube
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Budget Audio Mixer, Phenyx Pro PTX-10 for Ham Radio and CZcams
Audio Technica AT 2040. Is it the right Microphone for your Ham Radio?
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Audio Technica AT 2040. Is it the right Microphone for your Ham Radio?
30 minutes to setup, activate and hit the road. Hamstick to the rescue.
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30 minutes to setup, activate and hit the road. Hamstick to the rescue.
Parks on the Air with a 20 meter Hamstick
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Parks on the Air with a 20 meter Hamstick
Thank you for the information! It's hard to find real people using awesome and affordable gear that new hams can use and relate to!
Anyone getting audio on youtube?
Hello Son, good thing your doing there, I’m actually hearing your voice. Don’t hear it much. 😊
No D star net tonight?
Happy 2 year Channel anniversary!🎉🎉
I knew I should have set a alarm for this. I missed the stream!
So guess I missed it, what’s the term falling Derrick mean?, doesn’t look like a literal falling Derrick to me
It's the pipe that the winch connects to and it connects to the tower. When the tower is down the derrick is up and vise versa. It changes the pulling angle to help lift it off the ground
badass!
You really don’t need an antenna analyzer to to tune a Hamstick of your transceiver has a built in SWR measurement capability. For 40 meters start out at the high end of the band with the antenna stinger at its longest position in the collet at the top of the lower section. Incrementally shorten the stinger in half inch increments while putting RF into the antenna and monitoring the SWR. If you have a radio that does a frequency sweep SWR plot routine like current Icoms like the 7300 and 7100 , so much the better, use a 10 kHz step for all HF bands. When you are getting close to resonance you will start to see the SWR reading drop. Continue adjusting the antenna until the SWR starts going up, then return to the position that results in the lowest SWR. Measure and record the stinger length in inches from the tip to the top of the collet on the lower part of the stick. If you have properly located and installed and properly grounded the antenna you should have no problem attaining an SWR minimum of at least 1.5:1. See the details below on how to best locate and install the antenna. Once you have found the SWR minimum point at the top a a band, shift the transmit frequency down in nominal 10 or 20 kHz increments and incrementally adjust the stinger longer as necessary to hit minimum SWR at each increment, and record the stinger length for each frequency increment. Keep the table for future reference to set up the antenna properly for whatever frequency you wish to operate on. On my 40meter stick minimum SWR at 7140 kHz requires about 2 1/2 inches more stinger length compared to minimum SWR at 7290 kHz. About 3 more inches relative to the stinger length at 7140 kHz is needed at 7030 kHz for CW band operation. Locate the antenna feedpoint as high as possible on the vehicle body so that no portion of the antenna above the feedpoint is anywhere near parallel vehicle structure such as an SUV lift gate or a truck fender/tailgate - bumper mounting should be avoided at all costs, also avoid mounting the base of an antenna right behind the cab of a truck at the fender line. Always try for a roof mount at the left rear corner of an SUV or station wagon or at the left rear corner of a pickup truck with the antenna base at the top of the fender/tailgate line. Ensure that the shield side of the feed line is securely bonded to directly to the vehicle body not more than a few inches away from the bottom of the antenna. DO NOT use a mag mount base without providing a bonding jumper to the vehicle structure to the shield side of the feed point at HF. There is insufficient capacity coupling between the mag mount discs and the vehicle at HF, antenna will be very inefficient. My favorite way to put a Hamstick on a station wagon or SUV is to mount the antenna base either on left rear of a roof rack rail, and run the feedline up along the weatherstripping on the left side of the lift gate frame so it’s hidden with the lift gate shut. Break out the center conductor from the feed line and run it up to the bottom of the antenna over the weather stripping, add a layer or two of electrical tape over the existing center conductor insulation to prevent chafing against the lift gate when it is closed. Try to keep the length of the center conductor from the breakout with the shield to the antenna at no more than 6 inches if possible. If it is any longer you may have trouble resonating a stick on higher frequencies such as at 10 and 6 meters. On lower bands a few more inches isn’t significant. At the breakout point of the shield and center conductor at the lift gate opening upper left, bond the shield to the body structure with a ring terminal and starwasher and a stainless steel sheet metal screw into a hole drilled into the lift gate opening structure. Be sure to use a Dremel tool abrasive wheel or equivalent to get down to bare metal around the hole for the width of the ring terminal and washer. The grounding point and feed line will be out of sight with the lift gate shut. On every Hamstick or for that matter any other short mobile antenna I have used for over 20 years on 40 meters and lower frequencies , shunt reactance must be applied across the feed point to get the SWR minimum below 1.5/1. 500 pf on 40, 500 or 1000 pf on 80, 1500 pf on 160. Many but not all Hamstick type antennas note this in their installation instructions. Don’t neglect this. A shunt inductor may be used instead of a shunt cap, I’m currently using six close spaced turns of No. 16 insulated stranded wound on a prescription pill bottle for matching my 40 meter Hamstick on the roof of our 2017 Volvo XC60, gives a slightly better match than the 500’pf shunt cap. The shunt coil has the added advantage of providing a static drain path to ground for the antenna. Good luck! And 73 de Chris AJ1G Stonington CT
Your antenna is closer to the metal vehicle body..
New subscriber here. I am using my nanoVNA tuning my 4 shark sticks. I am having trouble getting them in the SSB portion of any bands (10, 20, 40, 80). Do you use a wider scan than the band of interest? Oh yeah,I am using and tuning with the quick disconnect on the truck. NOTE: I have not bonded the metal of the truck together which may be part of my problem. Any advice for this noobie? All the best 73 de KI5HXM Yes, I think she should get her ham license.
Break open, Modify - do anything - to to add a thick braid from the base to the closest ground on the truck. Then start over.
Well it's been a year has your daughter gotten her ham license yet because inquiring-minds-want-to-know?
No she has no interest but my granddaughter (13) spent 2 weeks with me over the summer and studied for/passed her tech KF0NKV
Yes your daughter should get a Ham license
Good job with your granddaughter passing the ham radio test! What type of handheld does she have?
Missed the net tonight. Had dinner at Hog Tide, and it ran longer than what I thought it would.
She's using a Motorola HT1000 for now. It's a very simple, just 2 knobs and a switch, 2M only. Are you going to make it to the picnic Saturday? If so come up and introduce yourself.
Received my vanity call sign this morning! KC0OJI. Was KF0NIG
Thanks everyone for checking in. Great to hear from you all. 73.
I believe people visit parks to escape that sort of thing. Call me names if you want, but I feel very strongly about it.
So does the derick bring up the tower or is there a cable attached to the tower? Nice setup. I run that Mosley here but only at 32’. Would like to try 64’ to see how much better it performs. I’m uncertain of the stress points of rohn tower
The cable runs over the top of the derrick and to the tower. The derrick lowers the lifting angle when it is close to the ground making it much easier to lift. A cable over a derrick at a 45 deg angle requires half the lifting force of one at a 20 deg angle just going straight to the tower.
is this on the Linked Repeater System? I know yer call from POTA...Im in the Houston area for the summer. K8ROY
hahahahaha, Leave it to Bob to end it perfectly hahahahaha. Sorry I missed it. Was at Dinner and Totally forgot till I seen my reminder but it was too late.
Good job tonight. Have a great week to all.
Ya, they say them northern lights, moved more south. Would have been cool to see.
Hello , Enjoying this.
Greetings from the inter web. Zach's Dad!
Thank you. I have been long neglected in my renewal of my FCC.
That looked and sounded awesome
I knew you'd like that I included your picture on the stream 🤣
Great net, Glad I could catch it mobile. Zach breaks another record. Great job! 73.
It was awesome. 32 is going to be a tough record to break but it's your turn to do it 😁
Yap she very patient and doing great.
sorry I missed it
You missed it by quite a bit Dave that was last year's video lol
I’m in the process of trying to tune a 40 meter shark stick with very little luck. The best I have so far is 1.8 at 7.340, anything in the band is 2.0 and up but it’s 1.1 across the entire 10 meter band go figure. How has your effort been ?
I never got it working really good but it will tune with my auto tuner and make some contacts. The 20 M ham stick works great so I've mainly stuck with it.
Well I guess I made it! lol Thanks for all the help getting set up.
I'm definitely gonna get my other monitor hooked up somehow in this tinyshack.
You did a great job Marvin and I'd like to have a 3rd monitor for streaming the nets.
Looking good Wes!!
Thanks Zach
Sweet. I'm itching even more to get my tower up. Especially since I can't make it into the clubs D-Star repeater. I'm hoping 40+ more feet for the GP-9 will do the trick. Lookin good man!
Thanks Marvin, I've got some work still to do on it and it's going to have to come back down again soon to fix a coax issue but it's getting there.
Awesome video Wes looks great.
Thanks Shaun hopefully I'll get all the bugs worked out soon.
I like pota on 15 and 20. 73 from Spain, Europe. EA8DIO. How many watts are you running on 10.
What a Net!!! Excellent Record Breaker!!! Sorry I couldn't watch the live, but Glad I could get checked in. Zac's got his work cut out for him next week!!!
Thank you Marvin. It was a great time. I can't wait to get you going as NC.
Here's a bit of a secret.. as soon as you start pushing that rod down inside the coiled fiberglass, it changes the reactants of the antenna and creates an inductive reactants load rather than an inductive load. When you want to shorten your antenna you would be much better off to actually cut the pieces off and avoid allowing it to slide down inside the fiberglass. The whole idea of the whip sliding down inside the fiberglass is actually for storage purposes not for tuning purposes except for fine-tuning where you only allow up to 2 in to fall down inside the fiberglass tube. Source; I am an RF engineer.
You're right! I gave away a 40 meter ham stick, because I could not tune it, and had nothing to cut that stainless steel whip.
As long as the stinger inside the lower half of a Hamstick type antenna is above the upper end of the loading coil windings you should not need to anything off the bottom of the stinger. Cutting length off the stinger may result in it being too short for operation at lower part of a band especially on 75 and 40 meters. I have never had to trim a Hamstick stinger shorter to get the antenna to tune at the high end of the band to prevent the bottom of the stinger from getting to close to the coil. On the other hand, many brands of Hamsticks have stingers that are too short to permit proper tuning at the low end of the 80’meter band. Extended length stingers can be fabricated from stainless steel rod stock of appropriate diameter. You may be able to find long stainless steel CB whips of the right diameter at truck stops that can be cut to your desired length. Use them extended length stingers only when operating at the low end of a band, the added length will likely get you in trouble with proximity to the loading coil in the bottom half of the antenna if you try to use it at the top of the band. 73 de Chris AJ1G Stonington CT
Man Sorry I missed this net Wes. Was outside doing Farm/Yard work, and forgot all about it. CAN NOT WAIT UNTIL APPLE BUTTER DAYS IN MT. VERNON it's going to be a blast. Will be there for Breakfast, and helping set up too.
I've had my FT DX 10 now for about 2 weeks and I am impressed with the receiving on it. My 991a is also a great rig but this thing is at the next level...73
I agree completely, I really enjoy using the 10 especially after getting a little more experience with the controls. Thanks for watching 73 Wes AE0OC
Great first activation. I am also a new ham have had my general for about a month and a half and I was so nervous calling cq on my first pota activation. I recently purchased a set of shark hamsticks and a mfj trimag mount I want to use to activate from my truck. Having a quick setup will let me get some weekday activations in after work. 73
Thanks for the video man!
Thank you for watching. 73 Wes AE0OC
I just installed a Diamond 40 meter hamstick on my truck. Finally got it to the point where my FTDX-10 can tune it. Got some POTA contacts today. I hear grounding is important so I will attach a ground strap to the frame.
Sounds great and I'm glad it's working for you. I hope to catch you on the air. 73 Wes AE0OC
Great video. I've been looking at a couple car audio EQ's for a while now. I'm trying to get a better microphone setup for my IC-7100. Right now I'm just using the stock hand mic. The mixer I had took a power surge and quit on me so I've been eye balling that Pheonix or Fenix pro (however you spell it lol) I've got most of the cables I need and even a foot switch that I made, but I'm going to have to either make a custom cable for the 7100 or order one from Heil. Anyway, glad you were able to get it figured out at least mostly. sounded good on video. See ya soon. 73's.
Thank you Marvin, I bought pretty much the cheapest 7 band EQ on amazon but it is doing what I needed it for. If you aren't trying to run everything on battery backup power like I am then you'll have a lot more options for a mixer. Also if your IC 7100 uses an RG45 connector for the mic I probably have everything you need to make the cable. Talk to me more about it when I see you on Sat. 73 Wes
Happy Hamiversary and cool net I'm gonna have to do my best to check into that one I keep missing it somehow.
Thank you Marvin. I had to set alarms on my phone to remind me when the nets I like are about to come on.
Congrats, and happy hamiversary!!
Thank you. I'm having a good time and learning a lot as I go.
To slowwwwwwwww
Yes I was, Tell us about your first POTA activation.
Standing with back to the camera lol
thanks for watching 73 Wes AE0OC