10-meter QSO with Japan!
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Another fun day with the 10-meter band! I made my first contact with Japan. I heard a lot of activity on 10 meters with Jamaica and South America. I was not able to break thru the pile ups with my 100 watts and Buddistick. Hard to compete with big quad beams and linear amplifiers, however, I heard a HAM in Japan calling CQ while tuning up and down the band. I quickly answered back and was rewarded with a nice QSO.
I am running a Yaesu 857-D at 100watts barefoot into a Buddistick supported by a Buddipole Mast & Tripod on my front porch . . . so nothing special or fancy but a ton of fun!
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David, you sound like an old veteran. Welcome to ham radio! I have yet to get a 10 meter rig and antenna and start operating. My QTH is Beatrice, NE but spend time in Hastings, NE as well. There are severe tower height restrictions in the city and not enough room for a long dipole or sloper so I'm thinking about going mobile. My call is KB5ZDW and the handle is Rene. I retired from a major Department of Defense contractor after 37 years in March if 2008. I lived in New Mexico. Well, I'll stay posted here and tuned in when I pick up a good SWL receiver. Until next time 73's from KB5ZDW
Made my first 3 Japan contacts on 10 M today. Such excitement as I used to live in Japan. Very difficult to reach Japan from Chicago, but finally the band opened up and I did it!
nicely done! I just recently made a 10M contact to Japan from Grants Pass with 100W and a wire dipole - got a 59 report - I couldn't believe it! I guess you just never know when to start recording!
Thanks for the inspirational video shipmate!!! New ham using a FT 891 with a buddistick in Wa. 73 J7MMX
Welcome t a great a hobby. Thanks for watching!
Doc..... what a blast to see you light up just as I have done so many times when making an exciting contact .... just puts a smile on my face!
Very nice QSO 73 from Portugal.
+31HS867 Paulo - Thank you 🙏 73!
David Number One.....goooooooddd (Italy)
Great to see you talked with Japan
@MrHamAndPrepper - thank you sir! It sure is a lot of fun and makes you realize how we are all connected in some way. 73!
Wow wonderful and memorable contact 👌👏
+F8FCA - Thank you 🙏 73!
Wonderful QSO!
@FGsltw2009 - Thanks! Sure is a lot of fun and really shrinks the size of the world when you make these contacts. 73!
Thank you sir!
I know t sounds geeky, but I get a thrill out of very QSO . . . I especially enjoy looking up the call sign on QRZ and get a peek into someone's life & station.
73!
Thank you so much for the kind comments.
I look forward to working you sometime in the future.
73 de David / KF7ETX
Nice vid! I hope to will work you in the future, should be a nice distance! :-) 73, Paul
great contact David! Thanks for sharing!
Brilliant, reminds me of my first 10-meter contact down into Florida when I first got my license. At that point I was living in a condo in Westlake Ohio, using a Yaesu FT-897D, 100 watts into a tunable car antena stuck in the loft. I'm back in Cape Town South Africa now and seeing your video has inspired me to get my license sorted out here. 73, Martin, KD8LON.
P.S. I like your portable setup, I made a portable solar powered Go-Pack for the FT-817ND. It's on my channel if you want to see it.
So Excellent !!!!
Excellent video!! I know the thrill of that first DX contact. My first contact (ever) was a JA5 station. 10m, using a A-99 CB antenna. Good luck and have fun on the bands!
excellent video!!!!!
thank you so much for watching! I appreciate the kind words and support. 👍🏻
Awesome contact man, how exciting.....
David, another good QSO. Working across the pond, very cool. Now be on the outlook for VKs and ZLs. Randy
How did I miss this? ... Great contact. 73 de AI4QT (Huntsville-Mentone AL) Hope all's well.
I wish I could afford to get into ham radio my grandpa used to talk to people all over the world from our house in Michigan and his huge like 40 foot antennas are still in the backyard today.
Niigata is a nice city...stayed overnight there 10 years ago. I should head back there to check it out at amore leasurely pace this time...
nice ! I have that same radio plus the yaesu 757gx . I'm mostly on 10 cause haven't yet upgraded my antenna, but I've worked 17 a little with the help of the auto tuner
Wow thats just awesome !!
Congrats on the contact with Japan. Don't forget the ARRL 10m contest this weekend.
73 de N4TNA
good contact, its great to see 10m open everyday world wide- good dx-
HA HA!! Love the Starbucks info at the end. I like the new iPortable setup. been wanting to do a "gobox" for a while and looked at a BUNCH of ideas on the web. Starting that project now so that it will be ready for FIELD DAY. The iPortables are nice but for the price do not offer the flexibility in design I wanted. Going to go with an 8 or 10u rack box (depends on which power supply I choose). Great looking setup you have though and I know its much easier to move around NOW. 73, WV8KFA
you should get your tape recorder and tape recording that way if you get the address from you can always go back and listen to it again or send in a tape recording and tell him where the station sounds like here in the USA
Nothing wrong with being a geek or geeky stuff! Every QSO is a thrill for me. Never know who is going to answer that CQ.
73
KD8HAM
@krubbor - Agreed! I am like a kid in a candy store . . . very exciting when I here those distant call signs.
73!
Nice FT857D I want one.
Great QSO I have worked Brussels,Belgium and Wales,United Kingdom but working on trying to add Japan to the log 73's.
Tony KC9QVE
How do you find people to contact Doc?
Is it just random or do you have to look online to find out where the person is, the frequency and such?
i use the ft 857d too in my car.I havent made any large contacts yet.My base station is a ft 991 73 :)
@mjlorton - Excellent Martin . . . hopefully I will catch you on the air someday!
I am very interested in emergency communications so I will check out the solar powered FT-817 Go-Pack. I have a FT-817ND . . . suspect I might have seen the video as I did a lot of CZcams research after I bought the rig.
73!
Greeting From Cape Cod Ma. N1WCO
Wow USN officer, sir ! How cool is that? I'd love to have QSO if you got a D-STAR radio.
I have D-Star ... Hope to catch you on the air sometime! Thank you so much for watching! 73 de David KF7ETX
@@USNERDOC Same here DE JS2FYV
I sent you email doc
Great QSO David, I see that you are enjoying Ham as much as me Hi, prehaps will talk to the band sometime. By the way, keep up the good work... Alain , VE9ACL
Hi Doc,
Your videos inspire me. Great QSO. I'll soon be getting my general and I'm planning to buy ft-857d. How do you like the radio? Looks like you are having fun!
Happy DXing and 73!
another great video. What type of antenna were you using?
Thanks,
George
Jo its just luck.if you are on at the right time on the right frequency and the conditions are right,you can talk to people the other side of the world
Is that iportable stand, a particular model that fits the FT-857D? That is really sweet looking. Love your videos, keep em coming! 73's, KG6MTM
Hey David why did you pick the 857 as a home base radio? And is there another radio you would consider instead?
Love the disclaimer. If i may ask, as a new operator, what does barefoot mean?
Nice QSO 73 DX
+RadioWaveHungary - Thank you 🙏 73
+RadioWaveHungary - Thank you 🙏 73!
where did you get that box from that your radio is sitting in
japan contacted, i knew it would work!!!... so how about next trying somewhere in siberia or the north pole...or greenland...
Great job Dave!!
73, K4PAD
Pete
Thanks for video!
No qrm!= Då kan det gå långt på DX!. Min första (#1) qso med Venezuela var på 40M, körde med en G5RV 15M upp här i södra Sverige!. 73` from Sweden (sm6wxi)
my name is Jim talking to 100 Division I see 2 USA 465 Kansas City Missouri located across from the downtown Airport
Sir I must ask since I use a A99 why oh why do hams think using a big beam on a big tower will help them ?? Ki4nzj here I've made good QSOs with 25 watts from a HTX-10 and a 25 foot antron 99. I've just wondered why the beams are so necessary?
Because a beam focuses most all of the signal in one direction as well as it reduces signals from other directions that can interfere with the stations you are attempting to speak with.It's common sense if you know anything about how radio signals work you would know why & you should have learned this when you studied for your Ham Radio license.I have talked all over the world on my Antron 99 but when I'm serious about working stations around the world I use my beam antennas because they will send & receive much stronger signals every time than my Antron 99.I searched the call sign KI4NZJ on the FCC data base & it shows the license was cancelled on March 8,2016 Richard Simble.There is plenty of information about how antennas work & a Beam vs Vertical the the beam will WIN 99.9% unless the QSO is local & the receiving station is vertical & the transmitting station is horizontal then there is a 20 db difference in signals because of the change in polarization.With DX the beam will WIN hands down.
Very often happens, that some nice DX contacts would be not possible, if a other DX operator had not a big antenna system. When i make VK Australia with my 85cm small magnetic loop antenna and 100w, it means that the QSO was done because of perfect big antenna system of other operator, not because of my small antenna. So that's the story. We small operators sometimes thanks to that BIG GUNS :-) 73, Paul
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hi I put a couple of comments on your radio there earlier comment section I go by 2 USA 465 iTalk on 27 555
2 USA 465 Kansas City Missouri 73
good contact 100 division 7351 and 88th from the to USA for 65
Nices
this is hilarious . . . i mean, who sets a cup of coffee (maybe it's a soft drink) on top of their transceiver?
+patmb2011 - I do ... thank you for watching. 👏🏻 Nice to know the transceiver police are watching my six. 👍🏻
Great job! 73 WA5SAT
my equipment is a Uniden hr2510 a Moonraker for at 90 feet and to kilowatts they call me the mud duck and I'm back out I'm sorry that ham radio is so boring
Hi David, hope to work u someday on 10m..Cheers n 73, de JOY/YB0NSI
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