Ok good excuse to see a POTA video from inside a car.... hahahhaha. Skiing is very dangerous, lol. I moved back to Colorado and will snow and ice climb in winter but never ski!...🙂. I was out hiking this Sunday am and slipped on some ice covered by snow but just a sore arm and no broken wrist... If you get to Colorado this summer lets do a SOTA summit together and do a joint video. I have two large guest rooms in my house in Colorado Springs; you are always welcome. Recover quickly! Bob
Good video. Hope you have a quick recovery. I had my left knee replaced in Nov. 2020. I started car activating in Jan. 2021 in the snow because I couldn't stand hanging around in the house and it was my left knee, so I could drive. I didn't have an external antenna on the car at the time so I was putting up vertical antennas in the snowdrifts and IC 7100 in the car. Fast forward to July of 2024 I purchased a FT 891 and ATAS 120 for the car and I love HF while driving and copying CW in my head. I had little expectations for the ATAS-120, but I say it outperforms my hamsticks I used to use with a ATU any day. Now in the winter, I can drive up and park, and I have the rig control permanently set up so I just plug into the USB on my laptop and log with ACLog. I have 10 - 40 meters w/o ever getting out of the car and I've had wonderful signal reports and broken through many pile ups on CW and phone. I can't wait till winter is over so I can do my hiking and portable operating with other radios and antennas, but for winter operating it's an awesome set up. I also hate the headset noise, and glad to know it's not just me. I like the idea K4FR has below to eliminate that noise. 73 KN3A.
I can’t quite head copy cw yet, but I am slowly warming up to hf while the car is moving. I was scanning the bands and listening to nets on the way in to work today. Felt like I was getting away with something…
Thanks for taking us along on your adventures. Glad you are getting out despite being injured and hope this will inspire others as well. I have discovered that an additional inline volume control really helps smooth out the audio from the headphone jack on the 891 (and other yaesu rigs). You can use it to reduce the base line hiss. That hiss drives me nuts, but a $10 Koss inline volume lets you wipe it out. The idea works like this: 1 turn the 891 volume all the way down. 2 adjust the inline volume control until the baseline hiss is gone. 3 adjust the 891 volume to a comfortable listening level. I find the audio levels to be so high in my 891, 818, and ftdx3000 that this method is required for my comfortable headphone based listening. 73 es cu on the air de K4FR
Thanks for the recommendation. I put up with the noise because I activate CW mostly and I like to get the weak QRP signals which my ears can't hear w/o a headset. KN3A.
So that’s why you’ve been activating at the Fort more 😂 - sorry about the knee - btw I got you ground wave from us5567 (Olympia) - not sure if it was when this this video was being made (just checked and we did p2p on 17m - yaesu to yaesu - I also did a recap after I activated on my TH-cam page) catch you out there!
Ok good excuse to see a POTA video from inside a car.... hahahhaha. Skiing is very dangerous, lol. I moved back to Colorado and will snow and ice climb in winter but never ski!...🙂. I was out hiking this Sunday am and slipped on some ice covered by snow but just a sore arm and no broken wrist... If you get to Colorado this summer lets do a SOTA summit together and do a joint video. I have two large guest rooms in my house in Colorado Springs; you are always welcome. Recover quickly! Bob
Thanks! I’ll keep you in mind if I head to CO!
Good video. Hope you have a quick recovery. I had my left knee replaced in Nov. 2020. I started car activating in Jan. 2021 in the snow because I couldn't stand hanging around in the house and it was my left knee, so I could drive. I didn't have an external antenna on the car at the time so I was putting up vertical antennas in the snowdrifts and IC 7100 in the car. Fast forward to July of 2024 I purchased a FT 891 and ATAS 120 for the car and I love HF while driving and copying CW in my head. I had little expectations for the ATAS-120, but I say it outperforms my hamsticks I used to use with a ATU any day. Now in the winter, I can drive up and park, and I have the rig control permanently set up so I just plug into the USB on my laptop and log with ACLog. I have 10 - 40 meters w/o ever getting out of the car and I've had wonderful signal reports and broken through many pile ups on CW and phone. I can't wait till winter is over so I can do my hiking and portable operating with other radios and antennas, but for winter operating it's an awesome set up. I also hate the headset noise, and glad to know it's not just me. I like the idea K4FR has below to eliminate that noise. 73 KN3A.
I can’t quite head copy cw yet, but I am slowly warming up to hf while the car is moving. I was scanning the bands and listening to nets on the way in to work today. Felt like I was getting away with something…
Speedy and complete recovery. Thanks for the video
Thank You!
Thanks for taking us along on your adventures. Glad you are getting out despite being injured and hope this will inspire others as well. I have discovered that an additional inline volume control really helps smooth out the audio from the headphone jack on the 891 (and other yaesu rigs). You can use it to reduce the base line hiss. That hiss drives me nuts, but a $10 Koss inline volume lets you wipe it out. The idea works like this: 1 turn the 891 volume all the way down. 2 adjust the inline volume control until the baseline hiss is gone. 3 adjust the 891 volume to a comfortable listening level. I find the audio levels to be so high in my 891, 818, and ftdx3000 that this method is required for my comfortable headphone based listening. 73 es cu on the air de K4FR
Thanks for the recommendation. I put up with the noise because I activate CW mostly and I like to get the weak QRP signals which my ears can't hear w/o a headset. KN3A.
@BikingHikingRadio it's kind of counterintuitive but has worked well for me. Should actually help with the weak signals, believe it or not. 73 es GL
@@K4FR_Radio oh yeah it definitely should. I'm going to see if I can find this Koss device.
@BikingHikingRadio I found them for about $10 on Amazon. Hope it works for you! 73
@@K4FR_Radio okay just placed my order for the Koss 155954 VC20 Volume Control. Should work. Thanks!
So that’s why you’ve been activating at the Fort more 😂 - sorry about the knee - btw I got you ground wave from us5567 (Olympia) - not sure if it was when this this video was being made (just checked and we did p2p on 17m - yaesu to yaesu - I also did a recap after I activated on my TH-cam page)
catch you out there!
Yep! That was this outing! Pretty dang decent propagation for 17 meters!
But do the crutches tune up?
Only if you’re using the 10 meter band!
سلام دوست من. اگر همه چیز خوب پیش برود شاید تا سه ماه آینده شما را در باند ۱۵ متری ملاقات کردم و صحبت کنیم. شاید😇
I hope so! It would be awesome to hear you on the air!