Emergency Mobile HF Ham Radio Antenna And Ham Radio Tube Renaming
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- A Quick, Cheap, Effective DIY Emergency Mobile HF Ham Radio Antenna. Plus we talk all about power supplies for a new ham shack!
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I loved the old name. Best name of all the ham tubers.
1000% agree. "K8MRD Radio Stuff" is a fantastic brand.
I believe you should title it, “Best Hamtube on the TH-cam.” Just because truth is truth.
I like K8MRD Radio stuff so keep it
Love 3d printing things for my ham radio hobby. Also like how easy tinkercad is to use.
I love your channel and all the BILLIANT content. Keep the new name simple.. "K8MRD RADIO" . You can take that to the bank. Don't align your brand to any corporate "theme". "HamTube" just seems icky
I like K8MRD radio stuff, but I’m ok with whatever you want. I know your call, so it’s easy to find.
I have 3 Astron power supplies and they are over 30 year old! Astron make great power supplies.
Change confuses most of us….. just keep doing a great job. Forget any changes.
That’s the sad thing…
Mike, you asked what we think about the new channel name and then proceeded to say exactly what I was thinking… that it sucks. 😂 I liked the old channel name just fine and I think everyone is used to it. But I understand you put a lot of thought into it and it will probably benefit you in the long run for all the reasons you mentioned. So more power to you and good luck. Btw, would you care to share any other alternative names that you were considering??
Thank you for all the great content Mike! One of my all time favorite videos of yours was when you were going through a rough personal time, and were just hiking to your bench and talking about life. That hit me deep at the time and got me hooked on your videos.
I’m still running my Radio Shack PS!!
73 man!
Thanks for trying out the antenna idea. You put in a lot more time with it than I did. Nice work.
AWESOME!
Like the new name. Your call sign was nice, but for new people it makes sense.
Thanks for the power supply info. Love the experimentation with the emergency wire antenna
Thanks for answering my power supply question and for all of your suggestions, very helpful information
Cool. I have that exact same Radio Shack power supply. I use it for running a IC-706MK2G that I keep as a spare radio for experimenting. My current Power supply is a MFJ 4245MV. It runs everything at 13.8VDC all at once.
Speaking of Astron, I won an SRM-30M at the Berryville (VA) Hamfest in 2016. It's still my primary shack power supply. I also got the Alnico M330 MVT. Loved them both.
My first HF Radio which I still have and use because it's an unkillable tank is an old Icom 737A, when I picked it up off the old ham selling it, he randomly included an even more ancient Kenwood PS30 power supply. Literally walked out of his shack having that IKEA start the car moment! Best $300 I have spent to date.
Always love the channel regardless of the name cheers n73 Mike !!!!
I really like the new name. Roll with it.
My first power supply was a scratch-built DYI with components from Allied Radio in Chicago. Heavy, but worked well. (Tube diode, iron isolation and step-down transformer, and two iron filter inductors. {Radio Shack was, pre-Tandy, Pre-systems, component retailer, but not as good as Allied){now I often do Jameco)
Hmmm... DX Commander Mobile Edition! I like it :)
thanks for the idea
Please thank the cat for its appearance. I think you should rename the channel "Ham Radio Cat".
Mike ... I'm a fan and like what you do... If it's not broke, don't fix it... K8MRD Ham Radio Stuff.. but, you do you and we'll keep watching.,
In all honesty, I’m not sure how well the rebranding/renaming will drum up additional subscribers/views, etc. I have zero doubt that any folks have somehow missed your channel to date.
Love it.
Good move, the only better thing would be to ask the cat for the right name
how about "Ham Radio Shack? haha. Great video. Lots of fun and good info. I'm close to writing my test and will definitely be trying some of the options you post, so thanks for the info!
K8MRD Ham Radio Stuff
The fan dipole off the vehicle is a novel idea. I shall have to give it a try sometime!
HeyMike, I would like for you to keep the k8mrd Radio Stuff name. It has been that name for so long it would not sound right to hear something different. And I love the music you play at the beginning of the video. Thanks for all you do for ham radio. You really rock the house with the way you got now.73 AE4OY WILLIE PEACOCK EM-81UF Blackshear, Ga (OLDYELLA)😅
I tried your emergency mobile mount antenna with 28 1/2 feet of wire on a pole, and it tuned up on all bands with my G-90! Worked Europe on 20 meters SSB, with 20 watts!! ;)
I have used a single wire off my mobile HF mount on 60M and it does work.
I’ll have to try the other bands.
28 1/2 feet of wire will work on all bands with a good tuner! @@larrystokes8787
Great new name. I'm shocked it wasn't taken already. Nice. I'm still in.
Right?
FWIW--Based on recommendation, my first power supply was a JetStream from R&L. It was great until it wasn't. I started seeing interference roll across the waterfall on 20m. Most of the time. Not always, but most of the time. And only on 20m. I now have an Astron. Heavy and big. No interference. (It does make a weird shutter/vibration though.)
as a subscriber the new name just updated in youtube no problem. Hope this helps to get to more viewers .one thing I learned with dipole antennas is that cutting legs 3/4 wave also will tune 50 ohm and also had better gain and broadband. this is great on higher frequency's. 70 cm GMRS tuned made out of just coax stripped back. 3/4 element up and down. center fed. shield down. works so good it out performs the stock baofeng ant but a lot. I made a 6 meter off set center fed. 3/4 wave element on center and 1/4 wave on shield. ferrite on coax at ant. great tune. 1.55 or less threw the whole band . 5/8 wave did not tune. need matching transformer. keeping simple. 1/4 and 3/4 wave tune with out any coil . 73's
I have a 50 amp switching power supply and find that gives me plenty for what I need, has meters and variable voltage, cigarette port I figured I would get 50 amp and run a power pole distribution strip and hopefully won't need another one for a while. It was about 150.00 or 170.00
I’m case you are searching. The MFJ PSU is a rebadged Nissei NS1230D and the Yaesu supply is a rebadged Diamond GSV-3000 (except the Diamond doesn’t have a cigar ‘car type’ socket.
How about just K8MRD Ham Radio. I like your call in the title. But it looks like you already renamed the channel.
thanks, Mike, my kitties thank you also.
Any time!
Mike, I look forward to all you videos whatever the name of your channel is. . . . Those connectors on power supplies are called binding posts. . . . My suggestion for Bob Kopf is to go with a switching power supply. I’ve been using an Astron SS-30M (switching PS) for years with no RFI issues at all. The power supplies you mentioned are all good choices, and I would add the Alinco DM-30 to that list (only about $135) . . . . 73, George
With the new name, I feel I have to hide my addiction to your channel from my wife.
Well, it's better than some guys callsign 🤣
K8mrd radio stuff had more of your personality, but i agree the new name will probably better for growth for the reason you mentioned and more. You definitely should have more than 30k subs by now.
Funny, that was my first power supply too. It's working now 16-24 hours a day keeping the Georgia wires X room hime node running on an ftm-300. A real mule.
On that emergencyl fan vertical. You should try 40, 20 and 15. Those bands work well together for me...
I am surprised at how much work you did for a fan dipole. Then I realized your part of Texas may not be plentiful in trees.
I haven't put my ATAS-120A on my car yet, but my plan for portable POTA type stuff is to use a coax jumper from the SO-239 to an EFHW or random wire antenna. As I live in Florida finding a tree for a halfwave antenna is not a problem. In Texas it could be and the 1/4 wave vertical is more manageable with a pushup pole.
Keep the videos coming.
I'm good with KM8RD or whatever you government thing is. I think both names speak "radio nerd videos here." The callsign brands it to a certian pretty cool ham radio nerd. Tube in my mind has some minor negative conotations from boob tube, tube steak, and down the tubes. Maybe if I was an older radio guy, tube might resonate with the Brits call "valves" in old electronics.
Go ahead. Be generic. Throw away your identity. I DARE YOU!
Can't go wrong with an Astron power supply. They are heavy suckers though! I've had the RS-20m since 1998 and it works like a charm.
Good luck with Ham Radio Tube (can I call it HRT also?) I just changed my call sign myself Aug 12. After many years of K7DR (my initials) I changed to K8GB. I started over 50 years ago with WB8GBK, then KB8GB so K8GB seemed to be calling for me when it became available 😊.
Good Luck
Dave K8GB Sterling Hts (and Patreon supporter, too!)
I have the Astron RS-35M and would recommend to anyone. It is a great power supply.
My husband, T_E_A, wants to see more shooting videos.
Ham Radio Tub is very apropos for your channel, sorry I ment Ham Radio Tube is very apropos and a good choice. LOL Keep the vids coming.
My first power supply was an old computer UPS with taps into the battery wires and terminals mounted through the case. Worked fine when I was a tech
Did you have noise issues with it? Been thinking of doing something similar since I have a bunch of old CPUs sitting around!
@@av3510 No real noise issues. But I was using it to power vhf technician-tier Stuff. When I got an hf rig, it didn't have the amperage to transmit, so I upgraded to a 25 amp Samlex.
I found that 6 inch spread drastically reduces the effect the wires have on each other. I recently put a video up on it. You should check it out, I'd value your input. It also suffered from twist, so I'll be doing an update on it one of these days too.
Just keep us informed so we don’t lose your contact when you change how do I find you? Good luck Mike NODPR clear and listening.
I have a Jetstream JTPS31M power supply that I got from R&L Electronics and that replaced my MFJ supply that died on me and I love it so far I will keep you informed on how it performs as for the new channel name it is to close to a channel with a similar name you may know the guy that has it the channel is Ham Radio 2.0 and I think to many people would get the channels mixed up so you may want to rethink the name change and come up with something else but it’s up to you
I had my happy skull t-shirt for a week, and now it’s a collector’s item…
Now it will add 12dB to your signal!
Thanks now i have to order wire and banana plugs
Use a linked wire for that emergency vertical. Or clip a random wire to the whip on the ATAS and use it
You know, being the person that made the first linked end fed half wave (that I know of) you would think that I would have also thought to make a linked car vertical.
"K8MRD Ham Radio Tube" Just a thought.
Just started building my radio shack inside my garage using old pallets for the walls instead of framing timber, start of a long project due to funds...
HRT! not a terrible acronym 👍
Are you dating Junie from Ham and Quackers? 😂 Nice logo
With your vertical fan dipole, you DO realize that you are essentially re-implementing the DX Commander, right?
Pretty sure he publishes the cut lengths of his elements, so you might wanna start from there and try again.
73
Ham Radio Stuff?
Don't overthink it. Come up with a fun name that looks good as a logo, on t-shirts. Definitely NOT something boring with your call sign in it. And it's not a good idea to have any reference to TH-cam in it. Because you may want to use that name in other forums.
As an old guy I don't like change. But, understand why you want to change. I'm not a fan of what you decided to change too and think Ham Radio Stuff would be more to my liking. Probably because it's closer to your old name.
Like I said, I'm an old guy and don't like change.😄
Steve, K7OFG
Well I appreciate you being here none the less.
Keep the new name!
Satan kitty! Hims just a happy boy.
Mike, what is a good non-wire antenna specifically tailored for 40 or 80 m? I live in an HOA environment which doesn’t have a ton of room for stretching out wire. I’m looking for NVIS or close contacts in my home state of Florida?
K8MRD RADIO STUFF
Think the new name stinks… to generic.. you are the one that makes the channel what it is and K8MRD is almost a brand in our hobby.. why give up the name recognition?… How about Ham Radio by K8MRD or Ham Radio Stuff by K8MRD.. most days I love your content 🤪
Now for a new logo. An Eimac 3-500Z perhaps? Or, should we go bigger? WØRHP
We are entering a new era in disaster communications that appears to not involve amateur radio.
Yesterday when I watched Governor DeSantis's pre-landfall hurricane brief for Idalia he said, "We have already deploy 500 Starlink terminals to first responders and we have 2700 in reserve ready for deployment." To me that spells the beginning of the end of over 100yrs of amateur radio disaster service communications from the Titanic to hurricane Idalia.
Any passenger car can power a Starlink transeiver and few laptops. If you prefer 200W of PV panels and a 100Ah battery.
Of course a major EMP event could wipe out satellites, but that would like be one of two civilization ending events. Either the strike in nuclear war or a stellar EMP event magnitudes greater than the Carrington Event.
I can't tell you how many times I've been on a trip with a starlink and it didn't work. I think ham radio is going to be just fine.
Hi from the UK . I have several so called emergency aerials but don't know what all the fuss is about or even why we need them. From where I live and most of the UK. If I walk in any direction theres a village within 5 miles. If I am out and about theres farms within walking distance. Even in Scotland, Wales, Peak District that can be wild. Still have farms all within walking distance. So I really dont understand why people keep going on about them. Is it just in case your main aerials get damaged, poor emergency service, etc etc. PS we have lots of wire fences in the UK anyway. Cheers from old George
I think the name suits your channel much better than the original! Keep up the great vids!!
Ah Ham Radio Tube I love it. I may change the name of my channel. VidIQ tells me that’s a great name. Should I change the name of my channel to Ham Radio Fun with KO4PDI? Would you hate me? Lol.
K8Commander antenna
Ham Radio with K8MRD would have sounded better in my opinion. Of course I know that my opinion doesn't carry weight
Hey Mike, that’s a good title for your channel. I do have an old Astron RS-35M and I bought it brand new in 1994 and I’m still using it. And it is operating my HF radio and my satellite radio and a general coverage radio. And yes, it is heavy but very dependable.
WD5ENH
Steve
Like it!
K8mrd
Ham radio
I like the new name and it will be beneficial to the ham radio algorithm. I think you just made a “car” DX Commander with that fan dipole idea. Good stuff.
Hey Mike, I know you have done a review on your iXtech microphone boom arm. I just wanted to check in with you and see if you still recommend it after some time with it? I purchased a Samson q9U mic for radio and a podcast I do and Ive been thinking about upgrading to a higher quality arm. The one I have is Rickety and LOUD. Thanks for all you do. 73 KJ7ZVK. P.S. Thank you for Tech Tuesdays. I've upgraded to General since I started watching you.
It's a great quality boom. I just got the replacements for the cable management and have put it back on my desk as you can see in this video. I'm not sure if I like this or the other style I have better. I'm leaning towards the other style just because of how it articulates and collapses in my operating position.
@@hamradiotube Great input thanks! No matter what I’m sure it’s 10X better than the cheap $20 amazon one I have. Cheers!
Very catchy name for your channel. As you said, it will optimize your SEO optimization. 👍
Ham Radio Stuff
Awesome bro, we will follow you all the way out to end of the wire of your end fed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Always appreciate what you do, will follow you, no matter what you call it!!
73 KN6JHC
Call it Amateur Radio Crash Course 3.0
Lol! Done.
What ever you want is fine with me.
OMG there is the cat, put the cat in your shows. what is the cats name? 73. from Charleston sc
How about "All things ham".
How difficult is it to say “next time on ham radio tube”? 😅
Um
ham radio dude.
Ham radio tube
I think I liked the old name better. Putting tube in the name seems kind of cheesy, unless that's what you wanted to gain. You could have done k8mrd ham radio stuff too. Having your callsign in it makes you very well known. The couple times I've heard you on the air doing pota, it was immediately recognizable who you are. Unless I watched a lot of content, I would never recognize Josh, ham radio dude, or Jason from ham radio 2.0. But I have your callsign memorized because it's in your channel name.
Also, this was a great antenna idea !
Thankfully you didn't name it HAM RADIO TUBE POINT OHHHH!! 🤣🤣🤣
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Oh dang, I'll re-re-brand it now!
@@hamradiotube 😂😂😂😂
We are still gonna call the channel KMurder ;) But definately love this video. Lots of Satan to enjoy. Thanks Mike.
your a dead ringer for Randy Savage Macho Man with this thumbnail.
Next episode, I will snap into a slim Jim!!!
Spell it ‘toobstuff’
Nope. No good. You MUST retain your call in the title somewhere... Gerry VE7BDM
Not a fan of the new name......just saying. Sounds too much like Ham radio "DUDE" not saying his is a bad name for a channel but IMHO it is too similar and may cause confusion for people. Oh BTW I have that power supply and absolutely love it!!!
K8MRD Ham Radio or K8MRD Ham Radio Stuff
73
KF6IDK
The new name works. I have ham radios with tubes.
Dude..most hams don’t change
I know. It's sad.
I saw you signed in as Ham Radio Tube on the HRCC live stream and wondered what was up. I think it's fine. I don't envy you - picking a name for something like a TH-cam channel is hard.