10 Meter Mobile at the Beach
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- 10 Meter mobile on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with the Firestik II antenna. #10MeterBand #MobileHamRadio #FirestikAntenna
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Hey Walt... Oh my.. first call and you got the guy that gets mad if you don't give him a 59 signal report and he wont log you if you don't.. You gave him a 57 and he says he cant log you.. LOL.. Looks like you still had a fun time and nice to see the XYL join in on your video production fun... Thanks for sharing.. 73 k0klb
Hahaha that guy is a piece of work Kevin. Thanks for watching my friend! 73 K4OGO
Your videos are some of the best amateur radio TH-cam content. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the kind words! 73 my friend!!!!
That’s Todd kc4tvz. He’s a real piece of work to put things mildly..lol. Usually hear his prerecorded CQ playing in a loop.Keep up the good work Walt. Enjoy the videos 😁
Thanks! Yes he’s actually rather comical. 73!
I'm a new technician and I finally tuned a 10m dipole the other day. Heard him in a bunch of other videos and I had the biggest smile on my face when I heard him on my setup on the west coast.
Got to love 10 metres! Great video Walt 73
Thanks Tim, you inspired me to give that mobile setup a try and just call CQ. All the best my friend!
Enjoyed your mobile operation from the Outer Banks of North Cackalacky. I use to run 10 M a while back with a Rat Shack HTX-10 and a K40 CB ant. I was a field tech for IBM . So did a little mobile in between service calls. FYI I'm a transplant in Charlie Tango, was born in Lexington, N.C. The BBQ Capital of the world!
Hahaha my wife and I both call it North Cackalacky! I spent all my summers on my grandparent’s farm in Wilson, NC enjoying the best BBQ in the world! I’m a NC BBQ guy!
Hi Walt, nice day to go out, switch the radio on and the band's are closed we've all been there 😁 that's the fun of ham radio. Cheers Walt. Adam G7CRQ
Thanks Adam! Cheers Walt K4OGO
Another interesting video. Can't win them all Walt. But it's like fishing, it's just plain fun to get out there, especially in the OBX.
Thanks Mike, I was just down there this past weekend operating portable. Conditions were great on 20-17-15-12-10. Had a great time without a camera LOL
i was just out there last year. i will be coming back in a few months from across the country. its the reason im going after my tech license. and could really use more advise
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KC4TVZ, Todd, the 10-Meter Beacon on 28.425, on any given day. The saddest of sad hams. The lights are on, but clearly no one is home. 73, Mike K3CXG WHO DAT!
Kc4tvz dude is something else.
I’ve used that same antenna with my G90. It actually tunes up on 20 and 40! Of course it’s not efficient but I have made contacts.
Awesome!
$32 pretty reasonable. In the early 1990's I used a modified CB antenna with a Uniden 2600 and I was able to talk across the country and across the pond using just 25 watts from my car.
Yes you can’t beat the price, looking forward to using it when the propagation is good.
Walt, I have had good luck with a quarter wave CB Firestick and WRC Silver Bullet 1000. I do not use it regularly, but it does work. The tuning positions on the loading coil are simlar to using a 102 inch whip. This must be because they are within a couple inches of eachother electrically.
Thought about trying that with my WRC. Thanks for sharing!
Nice job Walt!!! Todd and all too
hahaha thanks! 73, K4OGO
Walt that looks fun. Just pop it up and hop on the band.
Yes! Looking forward to doing it when band conditions are better. 73! K4OGO
KC4TVZ. Yeah, I've heard his CQ recorded loops out here in Utah as well, on 28.425. He doesn't sound like the sharpest tool in the shed...
Roger that hahaha
Rocking the Xiegu. :)
Haha yes indeed, my favorite radio!
So how do I know what part of the 10M band to call CQ on? Is there a certain channel that everyone uses as the calling frequency? I am an Extra so I do have the entire band access.
Hey UW, I used to have my 1st Wilson Firestick in the early 1980's and made it scream with a Sommerkamp TS-788DX working South America with 80W Barefoot PWR fromn the Radio. Back then I had a elderly CB Radio Buddy named Günter like me living in Braganca southeast from the Suriname / French Guyana Border. SSB Mode operating here Germany back in the Days was against the Law and you were not even allowed to own a Radio with SSB Mode unless you were a licenced HAM Radio Operator. But YFUG didn't gave a Radio America about it even with the true Facts if you got caught in the Act running illegal OP-Modes or just owning such a Radio gave you a fatass Ticket or ina worse Case it made you go to Jail right away. Germany used to had very strict CB Radio Rules till 2006 as they made SSB Mode to be legal with 12W-PEP. Yagi Beams and vertical Base Station Antennas were against the Law til shortly before 1990. Homebrew Antennas were against the Law. GERMONEY isn't hat great of a Country like many Poeple always saying it would be like.
YFUG was a Brravo Alpha Mexico Florida those Days and looked at over 4000 QSL-Cards and all kinds of Awards from a very famous CB Radio DX Club from allover the World worked on just 1Band (27Mhz).the Black Channels.
Now you know why 10m isn't that much of an interessting Band to me no more but on and off I still use it to work Stations on a New Band just for the History to make my QRZ.com Logbook looking better...hehehe.😎
I did hear you last Friday Evening with the QRP Net on 14.320 on 20W with a 52, on 5W with a 41and on 1W with a 40. KO4GSM Steve was a 51 and Kevin K0KLB was hard to make out in the Noise.
You did a great Job like always, UW. Happy Sunday into NC de YFUG from southwest Germany 💯👍👍👍🙋♂🍻
That’s interesting, that’s for the report on the signal the other night! I’ll be in SP land in a week. I’ll be looking for you on the bands! 73 Unkle G, have a great week my friend!!!
@@COASTALWAVESWIRES I am ready and looking forward to it. Happy sunday evening UW
how does this compare to a little wil.. or a full size wilson... we used a little will here in ve9 land and worked well when bands are open and also able to work repeaters on 10m as well as dx stations on lower parts of the 10m band. its smaller than the bigger antenna version and also smaller than a little tarheal ii or 102 inch whip. would be nice to see those put side by side on a roof through a coax switch.
Good question, I’ll have to give that a try
KC4TVZ the 10 meter beacon!!! 😂
Blahahaha 😂
The guy sent me an email the other day after a qso saying he doesn't like deputies in law enforcement because his dad was one. Have not responded. Sad he'll log if your a pota station away from home
He’s bad for tying up 28.425 just calling out his call sign. Boy ain’t right.
@@radiointhewild yeah, I think he’s a little too locked up in the logbook lol
Have you made any DX contacts with the fire stick? Thanks K7WHN
I actually have, I am going to use it with a new 10 meter rig I have and do a video soon
Thanks Walt
I'm interested, particularly given the price. I wonder how two configured as a horizontal dipole would work. One question. They call these 5/8 wave antennas although they're not nearly that long. What is their rationale for that? Do they have the low radiation pattern of a 5/8 wave?
They are helically wrapped within the fiberglass pole so yes, electrically they are 5/8 wave. My guess is that they also have the 16 degree takeoff angle that a normal 5/8 wave vertical has.
Someone could check that out with the two-antenna horizontal dipole I mentioned. If this 5/8-wave helical antenna does have a narrower pattern than the same antenna with quarter-wave elements, the result could be an extremely compact 10-meter beam, although it would be bidirectional.
A great video and info on this Firestick 5/8 wave antenna. And Michael, I've been thinking about trying that setup as a horizontal dipole too. If it hasn't been tried I guess I will have to give it a try. Thanks again,Walt. Hopefully, I'll catch you on the bands. KC8WVG 73's
Walt, please stop hiding your pretty lady!
Awww thank you
So short and classified as 5/8? 🤔
Walt, she is beautiful, unlike us.
Hahaha yes I definitely hit the XYL lottery!
Lol Todd is a complete jerk 🤣 Kc4tvz
He’s definitely a colorful character
you logged KC4TVZ and made it out unscratched while even recording it! you better go get some powerball tickets!
Blahahaha yes you’re right!!!
I just picked up my G90 yesterday. I can’t wait to use it! 73! Denny K3DMM
It’s an awesome radio, you’re going to love it! 73, Walt K4OGO