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120 goes from 40m thru 440mhz. Very amateurish and knows little about the best screw driver antenna on the ham bands.

Try putting the mount on a faraday cloth. You never know

If u ever use a mag mount w this w a poor ground. It doesnt tune well cause of the poor voltage from the cat port getting to the antenna. ✌️

Didn’t know lex fridman was into radio. Cool ✌️🙏🇺🇸🤔😅

Found this gate randomly a year later lol. Thanks for posting it👍-495 NWC wavin a hand.

I wonder how it would perform using a single wire counterpoise that is 1/4 wavelength the band you are working. You could just have a role of wire with different length markings.

Been too long since I’ve herd you man

Thanks for great your video test. Please do continue."73"

1017 definitely has some awesome audio to be running a 7300, due to only being 3k wide. I have to give him super praise on it every time I run into him on the air. 45' North Florida.

Interested in the length of the radials? I will go to check your prior videos too! I have an 857 and the atas in my truck, so I could do a similar portable setup

WELL DONE THANKYOU🎉 All the best for GRAD🎉🎉🎉 9V1KM KK7QGL🎉

What kind of gizmos are in your rack?

Hanging

Radio price are crazy. ive been a Ham for 2years now and its hell trying to find a working Transceiver for an acceptable price.

For a young man you're complaining about the weight of the radio and you're the radios are crap 😳

Have you tried driving the copper tube into the ground a foot or so, getting rid of the umbrella stand? 🙂

This is ft 891, right ?

Same antenna here and you will be very lucky to get 40 meters much 80. I never could get 40

Are those MLOK nuts on the antenna brackets for the frame? Great content. Liked and subscribed.

I do believe that is a pouch for a hydration pack and not a radio pouch in that 3-day pack. 🙂

That is amazing for only 5 watts SSB and a small vertical antenna.

You are missing one half of the antenna, normally provided by the car body. Some wire radials would help. 73 IZ0MJE

Nice set up!

I am curious if you just used a tuned radial for each band if you would get better results. I find with a non ATAS vertical on a tripod and a radial extended out to 140 / FREQ in MHZ works great in theory you could just measure out one for each band connecting them all and it will use the correct one because of path of least resistance when the ATAS tunes in to the freq. Would love to see you try that. Been considering buying one for my FT-991A setup right now it requires me to get up and roll in or out counterpoise and adjust the coil on the Gabel Radio GRA-7350T vertical to the band I want to work. If I could push a button and not get up work be great !! :)

Next time you make a video please leave the annoying music out. At times the music was louder than your voice.

Nice video dude. 👍

Nice, I hit all your buttons, and a like. Come visit South Carolina sometime.

Спасибо Вам за видео!

m-130A covers 80M

Cut off is about 6.5 MHZ, sorry no 80M. When you bottom out the antenna it works fine on VHF UHF

I re-purposed an old Velbon camera tripod for my ATAS-120 mount. I cut a small plate to handle several holes for mounting 16 12' lengths of speaker wire for the radials. Works very well from 40m on up. Just made a good 20m contact in Colorado (from San Diego) using my FT-857 in my go box using a 20ah Bioenno. Thanks for your video, AR 124!

I have this antenna on my 2017 F150. It works to some degree but with the Aluminum body, I can't get a good ground. Have been trying various solutions with zero luck so far! I might try it portable on a tripod, just to get some use out of it. I wonder if anyone out there has had the same problem and found a solution??

The ATAS-120 loves a good ground plain, increase the number of radials and like someone else said, move it closer to the ground.

Do you find that you turn the squelch on for 2m/70cm and use RF gain for HF ? That's what I find myself doing. I also wonder if you would get better 2m/70cm reception with some sort of counterpoise on the whip antenna?

I don't get it ,where's the LOL part ?

For portable ops a single tuned elevated counterpoise typically works better. Also, when elavating counterpoise wires try around 30in. Also, you may also try jamming the copper pipe in the ground. A whiz meter will help tune your counterpoise length. Mark the length so the next time you setup you can start within an inch or two of the sweet spot. You might even consider using a good low resistance push connect for you counterpoise like a 45A Anderson Powerpole.

I use it on external power . Great handheld . I would argue it is not fixed rather it's rigged and handicaped . Don't forget the dummy battery !

Try a Tri-pod for your go-kit!

The ATAS 100/120 will present 30 ohms impedance at resonance withe the lowest SWR you find. They do need a ground system /counterpoise. The radiating portion of the antenna is the coil and whip that is above the top of the housing. Good current flow requires a ground/strapping to vehicle chassis. My example is my 17 foot canoe on which I deploy an 24 year old ATAS 100/FT-100 Yaesu. For marine canoe stability on the water, I have a second canoe tied to the first canoe with a DIY wooden deck,4 feet between at the beam width of each canoe. The assembly then becomes a catamaran. I can fly a flag, like the Boy Scout Flag, or the scouts favorite, A large Red pirate flag! my vessel instantly becomes visible to other boaters. Many are curious and will come along side on Field Day or Jamboree on The Air. Others along side can hear the radio and I'm able to Demonstrate the usefulness of Ham Radio. Make yourself VISIBLE!. Always let someone know of your where-abouts! I operate with two trolling motors, fire extinguishers, deep cycle marine batteries, and appropriate marine lighting. I have used this setup after dark. I do have and require use of PFD's and extras.(paddles, food and water, extra handy talky and VHF radios.) The two canoes(600 # rated capacity) .deck and batteries, radio shack fold together for disassembly and transport. The added weight derates the two canoes capacity by 350 pounds. I am presently designing an aluminum fold-deck to replace the heavy wood deck. I mention this aspect of my system for SAFETY purposes. Do Not underestimate the power of Wind /Water/ Weather and the presence of other boaters who may not be aware of your presence! Keep a navigation horn audible horn at the ready! After dark ,make yourself visible .employing the the RED/Green bow lights and white light astern which are readily available online/boating store/or Outdoor store. These come in kits and are AA/D cell powered. I crafted a small 4 foot tall/4 leg PVC water pipe(1/2 " diameter)TOWER , to which I mounted an 18" pizza pan at the apex. The ATAS 100 was mounted with a barrel connector. I did implement a tri-magnet mount but found that the so-239 /barrel adaptor created a high current point at the solder joint for the ug-58 cable, so a few times when the radio tuned the ATAS, I was talking on the water for 2 hours plus to a ham 1250 miles away during a Fourth of July show from Grand Lake ,Colorado. I did not realize the high current had melted the center connector solder connection. What saved the day was that I had placed the canoe/antenna on my picnic table to test everything. At that point, I used the tower legs as helically wound off resonance radials. Two legs wound on 40 meters/15 harmonic. Two legs wound centered on 14.225 approximated 10 meter radials. These are connected to the pizza pan. All the legs use 1/2" tees split to mount to a 4 point system on the cross bracers(Thwarts) with stainless hose clamps. No radials are connected to the aluminum bracers or the gunwales/rails(pronounced "gunnels") around the rim of the canoe. That procedure is reserved for the future. I did trail an insulated, non-resonant length of 14# wire in the water with a bobber and weight(as a Ground Shoe), The results of that brought down the noise level but did not elevate signal strength. I like the magmount because I can disassemble the system quickly. The wind load and weight of the antenna/magmount are spread out over the pizza pan. But I found that the magmount does not couple the counterpoise inefficiently. To the point of melting the center conductor solder above five watts. So therefore the barrel mount . with wide stainless washers to fit it's diameter. The antenna analyzer showed resonance points with a narrow 50-100 khz bandwidth and SWR near 1.5 consistently after some fine tuning ,on 40/20/15/10. I Check for Return Loss with the analyzer and keep the coax lengths short. That is fine by me for the mere fact that I don't hear a lot of band noise and QRM. I do listen more than usual ,in case I'm the QRM! This system exhibits low angle radiation off the water, with the pizza pan located about 5 feet above the water level. On a particular lake, it is evident that the close one gets to the dam, the higher the angle of radiation becomes. There is a lot of signal attenuation and the antenna displays NVIS qualities ,especially on 40 meters. In the center of a lake, the signals boom in! My best contacts with 5 watts are South Africa/Hope ,Alaska. The UK, the 14300 MMSN Net. UA stations/Spain/Portugal. Japan, Thailand, etc. I'm not a contester, just like antenna experiments . I've found that the ATAS -100 will work 6 meters, and Field Day/Jamboree on the Air from 14.270 foot fourteeners is very busy. Either portable or mobile. My setup was in a Field Day picture in a QST May edition a few years back. The author of the article did not realize that the antenna on my mini tower was an ATAS, and said that some operators work Field Day VHF/UHF. I had already submitted my Field Day "water shack" to QST., with HF results. On 6 meters you become the DX. I'm not working for the wallpaper, I paper log my contacts. I make videos with a salvaged drone cam that I can control with my phone app. A note: I use Type 31 snap on RF chokes at the radio coax, type 31 toroid's on power connections and keep all coax and power leads short as possible. For mobile/vehicle mounting ,make sure you have a good strap/straps, as many is practical, to the chassis of your vehicle. So, on the ground, you can deploy and test "Ham stickes" and 40 meter sticks can be use on their harmonics on 15 meters. The ATAS needs at least/minimum 1/4 wave radials on it's high hf band of 10 Meters. I don't recommend placing radials on the ground or " fanned/pinned to the ground". Slightly elevated/6 " minimum above the ground has resulted in a clos to 50 ohm impedance, and with the small diameter coil in the ATAS, that helps with easier tuning. To implement 80 meters you need 80 meter 1/4 wave radials/or simply apply 1 or two 80 meter "Ham stickes" as your counterpoise. AND, craft a whip from stainless steel with a helix wind/or center coil to extend the inductance of the coil inside the antenna for 80 meters. For your prototype, you can use stiff ,solid copper wire of the same gauge as the ATAS whip diameter. Make the helix long and cut to frequency as you go. You can approximate the center loading version length by how long a wire you apply for the DIY helix (think Ham sticke) . A good antenna analyzer, a 2 position antenna switch, allows you to go to 80 meter band on radio, by switching between bands and using the up down function on the Yaesu, trial and error, to get a resonance on 80 meters. As with anything in Ham Radio Life, your mileage may vary. 73'

You will be on the air too? Don’t have zello

Just found your videos, I am so happy I did. Thanks for the great entertainment and information :-) de AL9G

SimpleMan351 up here in Batesville trying. I can hear a few faint voices tonight

Just found your videos,very impressed,I’m looking to build a manpack around either a FT857 or an FT891.could you post more about the radials needed to get other bands on the antenna please? Also,have a subscribe 😊

Atas has a hard time going to and from 40 back to the other bands. Not too bad otherwise.

Ya got a pant-load of radials... make a dipole outta them!

No check in tonight

Please correct me if I am wrong I've what's to of your videos I did not hear your call sign And you seamed frustrated Relax , you have good equipment

One of the telescopic antennas on the market would have been a better choice. I enjoyed your video, thanks for posting.

I just saw your video testing this set up. Very interesting and I'm glad I found your channel!

Try one of N9SABs ultra portable wire antennas.