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Mitch the Dick

Thanks for doing this. Helped me narrow my focus from the 1000 things my radio can do to the one (S/N) that might be most important. And for 2 smart guys, you did a good job of not stepping on each other, much! 😊

I refuse DMR

I attended Ham College in August 2024 and achieved my foundation license. I had the pleasure of meeting VK6SJ who administered my foundation practical exam. VK6SJ is an inspiration to me and I'm thankful for his contribution to my amateur radio journey. 73s Mike - VK6ADA

is this also availible in german - because i understand only the half ?

Hello, I love this project. I want to build it as my final year project. Can I get the circuit diagram?

you know you couldn't store this in the virtualbox on your PC and you can access virtualbox, and run this software through virtualbox this way you don't have to have it in your PC you have it in a virtual computer,

I could not find a reference for the 'dialectric loss'. Wikipedia gives P=Poe^{-kz\tan (delta) }, which is the same thing?

Very, very instructive. I see now why air variable capacitors are so good, and why commercial broadcast uses the vacuum capacitors -- all about loss factor caused heating.

Interested in 80/40 bands mostly. Building mine with 6" semi-Rigid aluminum Duct. They have 3", 4", 6" and 8" diameters. and yes Russian Federation 15KV Vac Variable. Going initially with 24 ft. circumference. The Vac Variable can easily fit inside the duct so makes a very nice package. Where are the inefficiencies in the Feed? What about a few turns around the duct and use Open Wire to a balanced tuner? How high of power can I do with 15KV?

I also do have SDR angel, which is a sulfate define radio program, that has a feature to pick up Digital television, I use it with my SDR play RSD DX and dual, Subway define radios,

Ham pc is perhaps an april fools joke. I tried to install it and every thing i tried is telling me that the iso is to big for either usb stick or the dvd.

Great video!! Robert K5TPC

D0G is not a German callsign! Haha! Yes, you done really well. I am experimenting with loops for quite a while now. You did great work, I will destroy all what I have and start from scratch. This really gave me some new ideas. And I wasted money on material, that never really worked. Thank you! de dl7hh dDdDd

Mike and Tim, I got a little confused:) from what i was reading on a Flex site you want around 8-10db difference between no antenna and antenna. In you example on 40m when you left preamp at 0 it was only 4db difference! Am i missing something?

Any reference for capacitive feeding? It's the first time I encounter it.

I was almost unable to follow the talk, unless speeding it up to 1.5x. It must be my fault as I am not a native English speaker: the irregular and frequent pauses affected my comprehension.

Is this antenna horizontally or vertically polarized?

Sorry to hear about your story with the family courts brother

Is it the same as the Rattlegram?

I used 4 inch diameter aluminum dryer vent tubing. Mine is 4 foot square with a square made of 3/4 inch copper water pipe for the sense or inner loop. I eventually found by trial and error I could get a good impedance when the inner or sense loop had a 7 foot circumference. (Note, it was very easy to build my design using dryer vent tubing and the elbows did not require being split. I suggest using it the next time if you don't mind $8 for each fitting and each two foot length of tubing. 3 inch dryer vent is also available and slightly cheaper) I am very, very happy with the antenna.

0:12 "Stunning good looks?" The instant that came up on the screen I was actually just commenting out loud how ugly these radios are. They look unbalanced, boxy and cheap. Not a good look for a $5k+ radio.

Just a message Dave I have got ham pc, but was wondering if ham pi can be installed on the orange pi zero 2w? Thanks in advance Ray

Thanks this is so good .

Tried to download from source forge. It had no .img file. Tried another one that said .img and it had no bootable image. I am at a loss now and would really like to use this loaded Pi. Why does it have to be so difficult to just grab the file, mount it to an sd and go. THis one is a real bugger. Any help or ideas on this.

HELP lol. I have purchased a flex 3000. After install everything seemed fine but after a few minutes the audio on recieve becomes very bubbles for a few minutes then returns to normal? And help would be greatly appreciated.

Appreciated the documented results across the bands and the SWR scans. Excellent!

Thanks for the video. How much fidelity could we expect with the FCC dropping the baud rate requirement?

I already have WJTX and JS8Call loaded and running on my computer. Will loading this change them? Thank you for your work on this and other things! 73 W4DED

Where is the explanation of the metal arm at the bottom? What is it for? Is that where you hooked the coax?

Good video. Now, every time he says "and uh," take a drink.

Thanks for the video.

Hi from NSW Australia just subscribed 73s 🤠

I wonder WHY you are limiting your view to "under $1000" tuners.... if you are in High Power, then suitable high power trans match are needed to provide headroom. The components for high power are costly. So you should add in the Palstar HF-Auto with remote head accessory, and the Flex Tuner Genius. Art W1SWL

No queues, no sms realtime forwarding, no sender/receiver ID. Almost unuseful. HFPager had done this years ago.

Encryption any time soon ?

How are they being implemented? What model or for what software exists.

We have now SIG53 and their pre-trained models been used?

I am wanting to make a setup on a repeater. I think you said it would run on a raspberry pi in another video so I am going to be reading the ribbit radio sight.

Thank you so much. Do you have clearer slides for download?

great job N6RIP

Grt tyvm now i hv confirmed with ur presentation i can use aluminum tape wrapped aroungd a hula hoop of at least .5 minimum to around at least 5/8 diameter tubed hula hoop

Good info, thanks for doing this.. 73

Dear Paul, thank you for your video. There is a lot of information in it. Would it be possible to provide a comprehensive script or summary of the main facts you presented? I am member of a still small group of hams in Germany, who wants to develop a new source coding applicable to ham radio (of course open source). There are some ideas around we have and looking for contact to other enthusiasts about this subject. May I contact you sometime? Mike

Well, it’s a nice start for you. I noticed that you have a long stretch of wire acting as a partial feed line around the fence; those parallel strands with the resistor as a terminator will mostly cancel each other out, especially at longer wavelengths. I’d run the legs in different directions to avoid that. (One leg could run along the eaves.) I believe that explains the lack of superior performance over the attic loop, along with the proximity to the ground. Yeah, it’s hard to spot, but I don’t think it’s the right antenna configuration for you. I once ran an antenna in my attic, and my main problem was that the house’s electrical wiring was picking up too much of my signal, even at QRP levels. Lighting and appliances were affected, as well as broadcast television, and I felt it would have been cost- and labor-prohibitive to fix. I moved within a year. Welcome to amateur radio. I hope you have many happy adventures! 73 de KA4BGT

This is a video on optimising a small loop antenna, and you can't get any more optimised than for single frequency use. Can you please specify for me what fraction of a wavelength is most ideal for performance and efficiency?

So for 27mhz single band use, what would the optimum circumference be? The antenna will be a circle.(When you say 4ft or 6ft, I'm not sure what you're referring to. Diameter maybe, area??) So would the optimum length/circumference be just below a quarter wavelength? Or do you want to keep it a fair bit less than that. I was thinking 2.5 metres for, say, 27.355mhz. Half inch Heliax will be used.

Very good discussion, guys! I too have worked that station that you referenced. Haha. He’s in Slovenia. Love your Flex radios. Contemplating getting one. Very nice.

Python is another damn language to learn and you have to unlearn the other one that you know.

You are doing a great job. Love your project ❤