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Great video. For me, using tape measure radials isn't an experiment, it's been a way of life for the last couple of years. High visibility, easy to adjust the length, easy to store, quick to deploy, never get tangled, and, they work. I've made contacts all over the world with a 9 foot manpack collapsible antenna, band-specific loading coils and four tape measure radials.

Great video. Just wish you lived near me to help me with my electronics.

Brilliant video mate.

nice video, me too use tape measure for radial in my qrp usdr+. Great! how long are your tape radials?

I was sitting here screaming, "Don't power up a transmitter without a LOAD!" The power has to go somewhere. You might get away with it with very low power, or an output with protection circuitry, but you must always remember that the power has to go somewhere. BTW, I like to do exactly what you are doing here. I have very little interest in exchanging "5-9's" with people off in the distance. I'm a builder, a learner, and an experimenter. We aren't in the majority of ham radio, but there are still many of us involved. In the USA we are the reason the FCC licenses hams to design, build, and operate just about any RF gear we want, just as long as we stay in the ham bands and don't exceed 1500 Watts output. Our government knows it has little use for those who chat on the air, but it has a great use for a group of people who understand electronics and can make communications systems work. We are a garden of technical expertise, and the government wants to see us grow.

Genius idea. I hate winding up wire radials as I know every time I do it they are going to be tangled when I come back to them for the next deployment. I had thought of using a winder as with a kite string but that gets bulky. I had thought of using a chalk line reel with the string replaced by wire (that works for me for an EFHW on location) but this could be very neat and compact. Definitely going to try this

I lived on a boat a long time. Maybe hop on land when you solder. Fire on a boat is no fun

I never found the Oner to be chirpy. Maybe it depends on the crystal and/or its matching t the rest of the circuit. It's probably one of the least appreciated and most versatile simple 500mW transmitter.

Foam pool swim noodles

Wrap the ground wire around one of those long round poll toys and let float on the water make the wire about 30 ft long, number 10 bare ground wire

G6AD, he was my first UK contact on 20m

Be sure to put a common-mode choke at the antenna feed point to keep the coax from becoming part of the radiating system. That’s what’s causing the stray RF that’s kicking out your USB.

Hey man.. you OK? tried calling you etc

when are going to demonstrate TX also :)

No reason it won't work as long as you get a good electrical connection.

I know this is an old video but at the start I noticed you still have USB charging enabled. So it will be draining more juice from the tablet and won't make things very happy either. Best thing I did was get the Icom remote software and connect to it over WiFi. I think there is a free version nowadays called wfview, although I've not tried it.

Don't forget your dummy load! :D

If you use a USB cable to the 705, you get two com ports, one can be used for GPS, the other is the cat control. Using one of the many gps clock apps you can sync the windows clock (or whatever device) to the gps clock on the 705. You can always then unplug the cable and go back to using the brilliant 705 wifi data connection with the icom remote app.

@8:20 Aw man :facepalm:

Don't let people fool you about the unboxing video! It was very helpful! Thanks 73 AH2EJ

Coffee smelled GREAT ! ...N3JLR

the issue you're going to have is the tuner internal to the radio is still set to the transmit antenna. when you switch it to the loop it's tuning settings ARE going to be different. which can account for some of loss of rf on receive when it's turned on. ideally you would want to turn off the tuner on receive :D

you're riding on the wrong side of the road :P

Add a common mode choke about 2 meters from the antenna

Was it you I was speaking to about the Messiah?

Firt Video I've seen of yours where did you stay BTW?

Nice power and SWR meter! Great fun Nathan. Looks like a nice place. We still need to do that island trip!!

Thnx for the mention and the ATNO 🤝 Is that a pan-adapter or a panadapter 😉

Looks like it cannot export to usa 😢

I miss living in the Lakes, really enjoyed the video 73

Canny little device Nathan, you could create a QRP propagation beacon with that, little homebrew transmitter based around an SI5351 PLL and a micro.

Great video and very helpful 😎

Thanks very much Nathan. Looks like you have things sorted, just need to get the loop RX better, but still keep the noise away. I have been thining deeply about your comment on the ~manufacture the box~ video where you made reference to the insulating tape to stop the relays contacting the case if they dropped away from the sticky pads. Why didnt you use the lid of the box as a lid and put the printing on the top, instead of using the lid as the base, or are you worried things might move about in normal use?

Does it work well in the real world?

That is a neat solution!

Good video Nathan, some good footage, and nicely narrated!

21:22 reminds me of that cooking recipe "on Kudu" :)

Never realised they had Nostrils 🙂

Well the de rigging looked pretty fast to me :-) I think setting up is more about how you stow away. For instance, I couldn't believe how efficient Para Packing was for some things. Where you just keep stuffing rope into a bag till it is full (sort of) You need to get used to the overhand underhand way for stashing your radials then you can pretty much just chuck them out and they are almost ready. Ask Tom if it was just antenna set up or to rig on ready. Maybe to be more challenging, to First contact :-) Hope you washed your hands after playing with that boat and eating your tea ?

Hello mate, just seen this video - Epic! You're much braver than me for /P operations, I have converted a Van for this sort of stuff however fair play to you. Hope to catch you on the air one evening when I'm out in the wilds, I do tend to make videos but as of yet not had the confidence to upload them to TH-cam. Cheers and 73 Rob M0XXQ (Usually M0XXQ/P)

I had forgotten that slipper knot. Thanks for reminding me.

Wonderful Video friend.

Nathan that was Epic, I am so glad you shared it with us. Thank you. At least I dont need to do it now, because you have 🙂

Nonsense? russian soldiers are gang-raping women, kidnapping children and murdering civilians. What a disgraceful racist thing to say, Nathan!

Looks cool that!

Epic trip!