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Welcome to the world of 10GHz. I made my first contacts there last year. Still awaiting some rain scatter contacts but I will be doing that soon. My transverter was sick and in need of repair. So I am waiting to get it back.

Man I feel old. That dish was made after I got my full licence! 😮

You’d know it wasn’t outside in Ireland for 30 years!

Many newly licensed hams seem to think it's lack of users. Cannot understand why they are not being heard. They got use to vhf uhf fm with Repeaters and some with dmr and dstar . Now HF is a completely different ball game. Many gone back to vhf.. many like me started on HF. HF was ham radio for us oldies. We learnt quickly about propagation. It will eventually get back to normal.

Couldn't you solder a counterpoise to that nut?

Промышленная аппаратара быстрее развивается, ибо там где огромные деньги ---- безграничные возможности.

Ye guys are missing out on QO-100.

FYI there was one on those links inside the transmitter room at Mt Wellington. The good condition of that unit you have suggests that could be it. The dish was mounted to point through a fibreglass? panel mounted in the wall down to a tall building in Hobart.

I bought one but sent it back because it was too small, could hardly read the screen. I spend the extra and got the TD-H8. Please with that one.

You need an IC-905 now…

I look forward to following your further work on getting a 10 Ghz station. I hope there will be more videos on this topic Vy 73 de OZ1IOM Allan in Denmark

Advanced licenses only?

I'm much older than that dish! HOLY COW! That looks like an impressive project to be had!

Wish I had one of these. Dave N9HF

2.048Mb/s is a telecommunications E1 standard link.

Looks perfect inside for nearly 30 years old. Safe to say any equipment you put in there will be fine

Hearing you say the dish from the 90s is nearly 30 years old made me feel old.

I HAVE SEVERAL OF THOSE HOOKS ON THE WALL IN THE GARMENT CLOSET 😂👋.

I get all those problems when the wife is yakking hi

Interesting that you mention to report misbehaviour. Unfortunately there are places where, when someone misbehaves on a repeater there is a big risk the repeater owner gets problems and the repeater needs to close.

Bravo......I had a friend who had a radio broad cast station licence that bounced the waves off the moon........cheers

You are an ass! Buy the right radio next time. Godddddddddd

are those screws intentionally grounded to allow you to do that?

The old Geezers that act as gatekeepers and who are stuck and think Windows XP is “the shit” are the problem! However, on the bright side they are dropping like flies. 👍🏻 As far as amateurs in organizations there shouldn’t be they should be paid professionals and those organizations need to adapt to the 21st century. They need a business plan that allows for success and growth. They need to evolve and update their processes, infrastructure and for the love of god technology. Websites, e-commerce sites, for organizations and vendors are atrocious. Finally, manufacturers. If your cellphone worked like your typical radio there is no way you would put up with the horrible user experience and interface yet we do.

I thought you were using a SignaLink USB that you interfaced with your 7300? Did I miss the video?

This is common ICOM May fix for Free my 705 / 7610 is great they use different screens .Cheers

Stamps and ham radio..two hobbies that turn a LOT of people away and it’s so sad

Like Jason said, "Anything is good as long as you put an antenna in the air. Put an antenna in the air, whatever you have space for and make some contacts".

Will it transmit in the 220MHz ham band?

The impact on emergency preparation will be huge long term. The absence of the antennas and amplifiers options is huge. There is not a good alternate option for big antennas and amplifiers. I think the agencies like FEMA and others should step up and help solve the issue.

It is called Moonbounce, Ham radio operators have been doing it forever

384.400km on av one way

Up, down, up.

Black "Nitto" Tape, been using it since the '70's... 😂👍

Great video of correctly wrapping coax to waterproof. Used this for all my station as well as repeaters. I go a little extra and last wrap or two in Malfoy or Denso grease tape. Inspected after many years and as if new. Thanks and keep up the informative videos.

I upgraded from a 7300 to a 7610 almost three years ago and love it. Super Radio for contesting, DX'ing and plain old ragchewing.

Surprisingly simple build, and those transmissions came in pretty clean, too. Very impressive.

is the key port for the ptt signal?

very good. this is how I learned years ago. now a new product from M & P called silicone seal replaces the electrical tape and can be used but it self. just place over coax and connector and putt the string out and it and it shrinks with out heat you can use glue line heat shrink but the heat needed may damage coax and or connector. hear in NY,USA we use 3 or 4 layers on out systems. lots of snow and ice with wind.

Yes good video. The idea of stretching the tape - any tape is so that it spends the rest of it's life trying to contract upon itself. It is always tightening. I used to be an electric linesman - for the County, Borough and Power Board. On power lines/cables we would rough sand the ends so that there was a rough surface to meld to. 3 layers of PVC un-stretched to provide insinuative layer. 3 layers of tight the a couple of stretched. Of course all were over lapping. We would often leave then tapes in the warm sun and the self amalgamating we would use the warmth of our hands to make the tape become 'one tube'. After each 'run' we would extend past the last run and sometimes we had quite a long join. And yes. In the ground or in the air Denso and that too was hand smoothed. I have seen one denso join painted over and was immaculate under that first wrap. Today I don't get quite so carried away but I still use one stretched layer of PVC first. This is so that when I want to reuse the connectors they are not contaminated with sticky stuff. I am amused when I see blokes break a piece of tape off the roll and pre-stretch it, because to man handle the roll around the join and keeping tension on it is hard . We used 3m and the self amalgamating tape was thicker than the stuff in the video. Cheers Dave Creek ZL3DRC

another flerf😮