Ham Radio SECRETS: Setting Up A Station for Success
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 30. 07. 2024
- Contesting (also known as radiosport) is a competitive activity pursued by amateur radio operators. This is how I setup and run my station in the recent Remembrance Day contest - a 24 hour long contest that requires skill, endurance and patience amongst other things!
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0:00 I contested for 24 hours
1:04 What is ham radio contesting & the RD Contest
3:45 My contest station setup
7:30 Antennas
12:48 Getting 160m on a DX Commander
15:35 Observations and strategy
17:39 Results and Score
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You dont need a second adapter, just do what i do and make a breakout box going into the acc on the back of both radios and run it all thru a mixing board. You can see it in action on my channel. Ive got my 7300 amd 705 running off the same mike and going to the same speakers off of the mixing board and then i have a foot switch for each radio, plan on puting a second ptt spot on the breakout box for both to have a hand switch for both as well soon.
My friend you run a high speed, low drag station. No gimmicks b or banks or monitors! Good on you!
Good show mate! Glad you made some Qs on 160m. Too bad about the jumper / rain!
All good - better planning next year, just ran out of time - definitely will get the full length of wire up I think!
Australia needs one of our equipment suppliers to step up and stock Messi & Paoloni products. Such a shame RF Solutions don't sell it anymore. Great videos keep up the good work.
Kudos to you for participating in the comp. I wasn't able to tune in much but a great result for you so it was worth it. Very interesting info about mountain bounce, who knew that was a thing!? đźđ
Thanks so much!
Watching your streams and listening into this competition has really convinced me that I need to start working on getting my licence and exploring some more of the radio world.
I inherited a Codan HF radio a couple months back that has been sitting in a cupboard for ages not being used, so on the Saturday I dragged that outside, threw the single emergency antenna I have up a tree in the backyard and started scanning, and was amazed at how many people I could hear calling for the comp. Has really inspired me.
That's awesome Alex!
Glad that you have been inspired to get your licence, be great to have you on the air!
Hayden was, and continues to be, a great source of information for me too, both as someone who was studying for the FCC exam, and as someone who has since passed the exam and been a licensed operator for just under a month now. Best advice, if youâre thinking about getting your license, donât wait. Just do it.
Thank you mate for the kind words. Congrats on pass your license too and welcome to our wonderful and fun hobby!
Your set up for the contest looked awesome. You clearly put in the work. Looks like you had a blast as well! It was an awful lot of fun watching!
Thanks so much Lionel! Legend đ
Thanks for another great video. I'm still waiting for my foundation license paperwork to be processed..... but I was able to listen in to the contest and really enjoyed hearing the wide range of geographic locations being worked. Keep up the good work, 73.
That's awesome Derek! Hope you passed mate and look forward to working you on the air!
Congratulations Hayden, see you won the Single Operator Phone!, was a great contest and my first time operating 5w QRP SSB got 5th for that category with a pretty ordinary setup, might go for my advanced license by next year to have a few more options. Thanks for the great stream kept me going in the early hours.
Thanks John! Yes I was surprised and amazed I won the SO Phone section!
Awesome you came 5th in the QRP section, thatâs great! Good luck with your Advanced exam study, youâll pass Iâm sure
Great video and fantastic effort. I had limited time and only got 100 QSO in the log. I still had great fun, even if only for a few hours.
It was good to have you return my CQ call and get into my log.
Glad you enjoyed it! 100 QSO's is awesome mate! Well done!
Big effort! Great spirit! Congrats Hayden!
Thank you!!
was a good contest, i only participated "casually", but will put a log in, for the state, if nothing else.. missed you on air but got one with ZBX. thanks for the streams, thanks for this breakdown video and thanks for your content all round!đ»
PS Katherine vk7c was setup camping, about 80km from my home QTH đ
Thanks Joel! Good stuff you got ZBX, hopefully a few others in your log! Don't forget to submit a log! :)
You're braver than I. Well done and well described/promoted.
Thank you!
Great to get you in the log twice Hayden. Were you using a foot switch or Vox for the mic? And any problems transmitting on one radio with the others on and connected to their antennas?
73
I was using a foot switch yes, connected via the Heil adapter.
No problems with transmitting on one radio with the others sitting there - antennas are fairly well spaced out so no front end overload issues that I noticed.
GerDay Hayden,
I enjoyed that last week. I wish we coulda made a contact, but brown stuff happens. Iâm listening from the start as I type, so I dunno if youâll cover this stuff.
I have a questionâŠ..what software do you use for streaming. Iâve grabbed OBS for Linux, but itâs a bloody steep learning curve for me!!!!!
Hey mate yeah OBS for Windows streaming contests and the radio.
@@HamRadioDX I just gotta learn how to set it up. (At least the Linux version) uses terms that probably make a lot of sense to graphical people, but not so much to truckies!!!! My guess is the âscenesâ is where you congregate feed sources (video, screen shots, screen activity and, perhaps, I dunno, Zoom windows or whatever) and then you switch them into the main screen, either as stand alone, tiled, nested tiles or Picture in Picture or whatever. Certainly for general video sources Iâm guessing this to be the case, but not sure if each âsceneâ should have its own audio source, or whether to loop them all back through a mixer so you can fade them in and out, etc.
To be perfectly honest, as a truckie Iâm extremely time poor so Iâve only done very haphazard research and put virtually no time into learning, so itâs gonna be a struggle for me coz Iâm only half smart and fully lacking in learning time!!!!!!!!
I'm getting the Microwave bug;
although I seem to see many You Tube channels that focus on the bands higher than 23cm (?).
I thought since I and several Amateurs already have a current transceiver which has 23cm (IC-9700) I thought there would be more video's with a focus on starting with 23cm band rather than buying additional gear to get started with microwave.
Does the 23cm band have a major downside?
Also; as of today, I see ICOM may have a new horse in the race for microwave, an IC-905.
Thanks!
Thanks for all the videos! You and some other CZcams hams inspired me to start making a few videos of my own đ. Keep it up! 73 de ZS6SI
That's awesome! Thanks for stopping by. I want to get South Africa back in the log again at some stage. I had an awesome QSO about 8 years ago on 28 MHz SSB there that lasted hours.
@@HamRadioDX hope to catch you sometime! đ
CW also doubles.
First comment! What a top video.
Hey, thanks!
Hi man it is nice if a contest go well thanks,
Nice.........
Thanks
afaik there is a ressonance in water molecules at around 2,4GHz that causes the loss. That's why microwave ovens work with 2,45GHz ;) Well, we all love warm rain ... 73
Yes and no I guess? Rain fade won't be that substantial at 2.4 GHz. This was more like 20-30dB difference. It's interesting nonetheless. In fact sometimes we use rain showers for "rain scatter" which is scattering of signals via the rain cloud, very interesting indeed.
get an ftdx10
Contests always takes over the band letting normal people no room on band's it must be banned to certain parts of the bands