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I've only worked you on SSB before. Hope to catch you again soon on CW!! 73 de N6VHF

Great video. Thanks for posting!

You are leaving in a beautiful country! 73 North East France

The station at 31:00 was N6EMP. Other than that, good job! I'm an occasional CW operator. After a while my brain gets fried as well; don't worry about it. Hope to work you from Virginia some time. 73 de Steve KC4JGC.

Nice job! I did my first CW POTA today, was full of mistakes and I sent many ? But what a blast! I think I’m hooked .

Your fist is great! C U on the bands! DE NN2X / Tom

Great video, well edited. Thanks for sharing, Bill! de KC9O . .

I appreciate seeing this video of yours, you have the same issues I do on some copy sometimes, it encourages me to keep going on my goal to continue to improve on CW. Thanks for posting this, real nice job. Daunting Pileup is right! 73 and Cheers Dale KK9D dit dit

Congratulations on your 6th CW POTA activation. CW is my preferred mode for POTA. I have 2 of those keys with the metal base and love them. Hope to hear you during the upcoming Support Your Parks weekend. You're doing great, keep it up. 73 de N6EF.

This is a great video! Subscribed! I’m learning CW and made my first CW QSO in the last few weeks. For now just hunting POTAs but hope to activate a park here soon. How long have you been operating CW?

Greetings from Romania!73 de YO2LQF

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TNX for the video. I did my first CW activation this past Thursday and I was nervous. I am just returning to Ham Radio after many years away from the hobby. I love CW for how quiet the bands are. I also did a SSB activation on Friday and found it exciting to talk to many people the bleed over is crazy. I bought the ICOM 7300 for my home and an Xiegu G90 as a field radio. My max power is 20 watts out. I really like your Yaesu radio. I started a TH-cam channel to document my progress. I will have my first CW activation video coming out soon; all the best, and this video was a great learning tool for me; you were very settled and worked the pile up like a pro! 73s DE W3CT. Good Luck! (Subscribed!)

What is the clamp that you have on the trunk? de VO1OK

Good job! Did you turned off AGC feature on TRX? Signal is balancing

Right you are, nothing beats actually getting on the air and doing CW! When I started I was a Novice class and had to be crystal controlled! I got on every day for 6 months like that until I upgraded! It was rough a first but I got better with each contact! Sometimes it just takes time to get heard. I called many a CQ with no answers. Keep it up you are doing good! 73 de N4DJ

Good job! The more you do, the easier they get. As for the RBN, you really don't need to do anything special. A single CQ usually gets me picked up. It can't HURT to send CQ multiple times, as well as your call, but it's definitely not necessary. I've often been picked up by the RBN when I throw my callsign out just after someone has finished THEIR CQ lol. It's really not that picky. I look forward to getting you in the log soon!

I will be your friend in zombie apocalypse 🤯😂

your CW is sounding great Bill - keep up the good work! 73

Noice! Keep the cw videos coming.

Beautiful park and what a skill it is to know CW. Thank you for sharing.

Hey there! Greetings from the UK. Just hit the subscribe and took number 73. Great video and lovely park. Quick two questions: With that radio and battery setup and 100w and roughly 50% on TX and RX, how long are you able to run on that battery? Curious to know if it will last for 2 hours. That little mic, could you tell me the make and model please? On a side note really enjoyed the pace and rhythm you lead and occasionally breaking for P2P and QRP stations. Compliments to your chasers as well - very civil and patient waiting their turn. Thanks for sharing. 73 M7IBM

Looks like a nice park 👍🏻

Awesome! I wonder if the whip is to close to the metal hatch. Seems that would have some effect on SWR. W7RTA

Congratulations on activating CW Pota! 🎉

Congrats, I wish there was a POTA when I was age 17 in 1979 instead of age 62 now coming back after 25 years of no CW, lol. Cheers, Davey --KU9L

New to morse code here as well. I noticed some paddles produce crisp and clear dits and dahs others do not. Some sound like duhs 😂 and it’s hard to tell them apart. Have you experienced this? Is it the band condition or the quality of the paddle? Thank you for the video. 🤝

I think you did alright. Got to say its a whole lot easier copying when you aren't the one in front of the radio I didn't plan on it but did my first ever CW only activation the same day as this. Was with family, my laptop failed in the field (so no FT8 fallback) and the SSB contest meant very full phone bands. Sending was where I failed miserably.

Interesting but why are you not sending the park number so they can log you .

I admire your courage and your ability, keep going, you are on the right path DL1VBO, Burani

Thanks for sharing this!

Great video on your activation. Nice to see it documented start to finish. I’ve activated a few parks now in New Brunswick and plan on doing many more. Can I ask what you’re using for a camera and mic to record? I would like to try the same. 73s VE9IH

Thanks for the contact 🌲

Thanks for getting me into the log. Beautiful park!

Great show Bill! ⚡️👍 Have you tried elevating a radial or two yet? Even just a foot or so? I’ve used a driveway edge marker (fiberglass or plastic-type material) cut into two or three pieces and then just alligator-clip your counterpoise to it. The pieces can ‘band’ right to your whip antenna for travel. I bought my stick/marker from Home Depot or a home improvement-type store. A SteppIR antenna article I read said, “If you elevate radials even a few inches off the ground the capacitive losses go down dramatically. On 80m, 5 feet is all you need to get a drastic reduction in losses, thus allowing the use of fewer radials. Once the antenna is elevated it is much easier to get reasonable performance with even one .25 wl radial! With one radial the antenna is no longer omnidirectional, the side with no radial is down by 4 dB, that energy now appears at high elevation angles on the radial side and can be advantageous for close in contacts (0 to 400 miles). Once you elevate a vertical, two .25 wl radials work very well. It is important that you try to keep a 180° angle between the two (opposed, directly in line) for the best pattern. You will need two .25 wl radials for each band you intend to use. Spread the radials out as far as possible to reduce interaction, if they are less than a foot apart it can be difficult to get a good match on all bands.” ⚡️🤘

Nice simple set up. Great weather and view. W7RTA

You had much nicer weather than we were haveing when we had that contact. The coax was most likely rg316, a little more lossy than rg58 but at that short a run it’s no problem. It’s the same stuff I have in my truck.. At least your teeth were not chattering on that activation !! lol VE1SK

Hate that I missed it. I'll be looking for you in the future. 73's N4ZDX

Bill! Absolutely fantastic buddy. Can't wait to activate that park with ya mate. BC at it's best. Keep the vids coming mate - love it! Woohoo!

Nice quality and very interesting

Fun how propagation changes and contacts start coming in. W7RTA

Bravo Bill. Nice park

Going to epic. Great work

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Looks beautiful❤

Nice rock!!!

Beauty eh! 👍📻⚡️Cheers Bill, Tom - WA7FLY

Have a good one

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