10 Watts CW to France! Holy Cow! A QRP walk in the woods
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- I returned to our local river walk, the Bosque to try a little CW (Morse Code) and enjoy the Fall colors. Little did I know my little KX2 and Buddistick would get me all the way for France!. That KX2 is just an amazing radio, taking that faraway signal and
making it sound like it was right next door!
Outstanding video! Thank you for the time and effort. The characters on the screen are very nice and informative. KG5OBD 73
Thanks for your nice comments!
Very good transmission. It helps me to learn morse code. The speed is perfect and the letters helps me to follow the qso.
Thanks a lot.
From France
Glad it was helpful!
@@TechGearJunkie completely helpfull 👍
de W1GYF. I'm 78+. I was simply amazed. Learned Morse @ age 13. Max copy abt 30 many yrs ago. Stick with it and yer wpm wil go up. Also amazed by yer rig etc. Buddypole in the boonies. Neato. Great video. 73. Nick.
I'm happy that I am not the only one that is amazed by this magic. 10 watts to France!
Strong and clear.
I've worked Bert via CW a couple times! his signal is always strong to me here in Oklahoma. BTW I have this radio on order for QRP work.
You worked old Bert! He’s a good dude! He was my first DX CW
You were both on Elecraft. K3 to kx2. I worked Bert a few days ago. Your 10 watts and his big 20 meter array with 400 watts made it work.
73-- W5OTR
Great video. The magic of amateur radio. CW the best mode of all
Very good, it is an inspiration to me! I'm starting from the radio, I love CW! 73
Jose I am glad you liked it. Good luck with your radio adventures!
Beautifully clear on that rig Greg. He was running 400w by the way. Tnx for taking us along. G4mqk
Colin -47 thanks for watching.
💪👍 hello from France, nice vidéo
I've been doing CW for about 2 years now. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that gets lost during a ragchew!!! Thanks for the video.
France! Great contact. Europe eludes me, up here in Boise. My longest Dx was a JA, south of Tokyo.
72 de W7UDT
Thanks for your great video. Great contact!!!
Thank you for the motivating video, it made my day. Awesome work on the paddle in the middle of the woods! 73 de Germany
Great contact! Impressive sig both ways!
Very nice report, mate! Great video, very informative, too! This KX2 is amazing!
I'm glad to see I'm in good company with the rag chew skills. This was a fun video!
My brain is like an old computer. Too long a message and I get a buffer overrun error.
I remember my deceased father here in Fortaleza/Brasil (PT7VJD) during all morning with contests with so much countries. CQ DX... CQ DX... 73.
Great contact on a beautiful day!
Je n' aurai pas imaginer que ce petit appareil puisse aller aussi loin! Cela prouve que ce télégraphe est vraiment très bien conçu! Merci pour le partage passionnant. Un abonné français.
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Came because im just starting my foray into amateur radio. Liked because i was Stationed at Ft. Bliss and spent a lot of off time in NM.
This was so peaceful I love it
Anyone considering portable operation with an EFHW should SERIOUSLY consider making a multi-tap UNUN. It's crazy what can be done with them. Nobody seems to be talking about them, at least in the last 50 years. lol. FUN video! Thanks!! :)
Nice. Thanks for showing this.
Bert is a great cw op!!!
Very very cool video. I love these! I'll tell you what.. I've been working all over europe with an EFHW piece of wire for 80 and 40.. the wire was free.. and my Michigan Cacti vertical, also a free DIY antenna. On the EFHW i always, always use my multi-tap UNUN. Almost never an SWR over 1.3 to 1.5, no tuner needed with the EFHW and UNUN. I posted a bunch of it if you or anyone wants to see. A few days ago I put up a 40m EFHW only TWO FEET high! And I worked an LZ3, an OM7, etc. I was shocked. lol. 73 OM
Hi agn Gregg, well cud not resist watching this agn, and got as much pleasure out of it agn as i did 4 months ago. and as always glad to hr Bert's fist agn.too!. as I mentioned before he's a gud cw op always friendly and willing to wk anyone anytime for any event or reason. And yes he will gagchew!. altho I've never ragchewed with him I have copied him many times in ragchews. Tnx agn for all your Videos I enjoy them a lot. 73 gud dx de Ellis WA1RKS
Thanks again! Yes, this was quite a contact. And the response to this video in particular has been quite amazing.
New Mexico to France by only 10W and get so strong and clear ?!
The vertical antenna helps. They are very effective for DX, not so much for local/regional work.
F6HKA running 400w in CW.
All of my QRP equipment is BNC. I also use RG 174 for short runs. I like to keep my portable station as light as possible.
You have a nice setup. Looks like you have a fun time setting up portable. I also love my KX2. I have a KX3 but the KX2 is my Go To radio for portable operating. My KX3 stays in the shack.
Barry, KU3X/QRP
Well done, thanks for sharing.
Nicely done! His spacing is normal, by the way; Bert has an excellent fist (he's quite well known, lots of us have him in the log). If you aren't doing so now, listen to the code practice transmissions of W1AW to get a proper feel for spacing, and you will see what I mean.
Your own fist is quite good. Very easy to copy. You have one quirk: whenever you send an "S", you tend to run it into the next character. We all develop little idiosyncrasies like that. It's just a habit, you can break it.
If you stick with CW, you will start to copy in your head. When you aren't trying to write everything down, you can just take notes about important points, info for the log, or something you want to comment on when it's your turn. Eventually, you will start to copy whole words in your head. I can't tell you how to start doing that, it just comes organically from practice, but everyone starts doing it eventually if they stick with it. At that point, CW becomes more like conversation, and you will stop getting lost in ragchews.
Sick with it, have fun, and call if you hear me - I will QRS. 73, Dan, WB5YUZ
That is definitely a nifty little radio.
That's radio nirvana. I get what you're saying about ragchewing. I can receive the basics at 14wpm but i like to keep it short and sweet for now. Great video dude and many, many thanks for the upload.
I saw your interview with T.O. Steve and he mentioned this video. Yeah, he sounded like he was just down the road. Nice going on this
Nice. Thanks for watching. (Both videos!)
Nice video,tnx fer taking the time, and thanks for sharing it. Yes that was Bert! F6HKA worked him on many bands in the Jan K3Y SK contest for the month. on many bands he is always strong on all bands and gud op. very patient and I like how he will match your sending speed. lots of ops now day do not do that. SEND AT THE SPEED OF THE SLOWER OP! always! (just a reminder to new ops out there) thanks again Greg for another gud video and thanks for sharing! de Ellis WA1RKS
Yes that was a cool contact. Thanks for watching.
Awesome contact! I dig the new intro music.
Thanks Jason. Yes, I decided to change it up a bit.
Nice. I have a KX3. Managed to do France on 3.8W and a resonant dipole from a Tentec 1330 kit I built running on 30M. 73 de KC8VJD
What an outstanding hike and contact. The ragchew aspect is a goal of mine also. That proficiency is a good goal to have. Good luck
Wish you could make a play list in your channel, so we could just go to you play list and hit the play button and watch all of your videos one after another. 😀
That's a good idea, i'll see what I can do. Thanks for watching!
Great - thanks for sharing!
Great video and nice contact! I've worked Bert a few times. I just picked up a KX2 a few weeks ago..seems to be a great little radio. 73, KB0VXN
Medic3274, great! Im sure you will have many great adventures with that radio, its a blast. Thanks for watching!
My best is central Argentina with 50 watts ssb. 5500 miles from Hereford, Arizona. I heard random letters on cw in your great qso but not enough to copy well. de KI7MJU
Cool man. Exciting. I remember my first QSO on a home brew 15m antenna out of house wire on 5 watts to Croatia. Little adrenaline rush.
Yea, I also freak a little when a CW QSO starts to drift into a ragchew. I am new to CW and have to explain that my brain gets fried after back and fourth signal report.
JMTAUL, yes, exactly! Thanks for watching.
Excellent video. Very helpful and informative. Thanks for putting the text on the screen. I'm new; just passed Tech exam, awaiting a call sign. Hope to contact you someday. Really trying to learn CW. I'll be on 10-meters until I can get the General, maybe w/in another month.
Welcome to the hobby and thanks for watching.
Spacing. You're running you characters together. Bert has a good fist. Nice QSO from NM to France. 72 KB8AMZ
I am always working to improve. Thanks for watching!
I have worked F6HKA several times, including when I did QRP - about 3 W from here in upstate NY. Nice fist! de WB2SMK
Timing was my main problem too. I wrote myself some software that threw sequences at me that I had to key... it recorded all the key-on and key-off durations and graphed them in two histograms. One was showing only the "mark" lengths, the other was showing the "space" lengths. This allowed me to focus on one thing at a time ...
1. First, just get two distinct peaks in the graph called "Mark"
2. Then work on getting the 'Dot' and 'Dash' peaks centered on the guides (proper ratio).
3. Work on getting the peaks as narrow as possible (minimise variance)
4. Repeat with the second graph, called "Spacing"
5. Get the 'Symbol' and 'Word' peaks centered in the right place for the speed I'm sending
6. Work on getting the peaks as narrow as possible
This got my variance down till I sounded less organic, and a little more like a cheap auto-key.
The computer would calculate and draw vertical guide lines on the graphs, that best fit the timing ratio. This way it didn't dictate speed, but ratio! - so I was never slow or fast, I was always 'wide' or 'narrow' of the proper timing... so, it measured ratio skew, rather than try to enforce a timing.
With my mark and space ratios getting better I added a WPM graph that auto-ranged. It allowed me to monitor any drift in my speed.
This last part turned out to be very important.
I hadn't noticed till it was graphed... but, previously, whenever I slowed down, the marks would slow but the spacing would not. By graphing both characteristics I quickly got better timing at various speeds. It taught me to send in different speeds without losing my timing
So, with those three graphs attached to my key, I managed to get my sending consistency to a fairly high level.
I don't need the graphs anymore, but I leave them connected whenever I CW from my shack. A couple of years ago I switched to an audio input for the analysis, instead of being wired to the key.... it was nice to be able to analyse the sending stations timing too.
There are several people I chat to who I can almost identify just from their curious habits : )
Thanks for doing this great video. Takes me back.... maybe i better look at getting back into ham raido!! W6WOE
You should!
Nice Contact !!! Great gear to do it with ! 73 Mike
New subscriber .. greeting from java island indonesia .🎉de YC2VOC
Великолнпное QSO. Поздравляю. То же очень люблю работать QRP на свежем воздухе. Успехов и дальних связей! 73!
Пишу по русски, так как английский мой ужастен. А онлайн-переводчики при двойном переводе просто изумляют.
Alex Blinoff thanks. The translate works great! 73!
Your copy is pretty great, Greg! Thanks for the subtitles to help us follow along. 73
Thanks Dennis. Its always easier to copy when you have the whole thing recorded. :)
Super!
Good radio love mine ad well love cw too
Great.
AM QRV ON 40M 5W QRP
CU 72
Хорошая прогулка вышла. Урожайная :-) 73
There's a great CW app for iPhone that's free. It's a little awkward at first, but once you get it setup to auto decode, it does as well as fldigi or any other computer based program, and all you have to do is hold your iPhone mic towards the radio, or set it near by. The app is called VBC. Valiance Backbone for CW. It looks like some bizarre Japanese anime thing, but I use it while practicing CW, and just setting it near the netbook while watching this video, it was spot on.
If you take the time to learn CW,why would you need a decoder,unless they are sending at lightning speed?
redman840, why use a calculator if you can just take the time to learn math? I think you know the answer... Because it's easier, and time is money. 'Hey honey, I can't watch the kids tonight while you cook dinner, I'm busy learning morse code..' Yeah.... To each their own.
p a Now that I have your attention...CW is an international language to be learned.Once you learn the alphabet,0-9,and a bit of punctuation,it becomes second nature.It appears you want somebody to teach it to you,though,without sacrificing,or taking the time to learn it yourself.If I can become “fluent” in Morse Code,so can you.Try LCWO.net and get started.Give 15-30 minutes of your time a day,and you will master it.It’s not easy to learn,but not impossible,either.Rest assured,I am trying to motivate you,not be critical.When do you plan on beginning? You’ll thank me,rather than challenge me once you learn.All the best & 73 to you.
@@redman840, You're preaching to the choir. I've learned CW. My post was to enlighten people, who are interested, about a rare app for the iphone that helps with decoding when starting out. Thanks for hijacking it, and turning it into some weird rant about the holiness of the CW art form.
There is no learning effect in using an app and no practice.
Hello man. I found your video in my youtube recommendation.
I actually don't understand Morse, but I love to listen it :D
Moreover, I don't understand perfecty what did you write. Is it in abridged to send it more easily ?
Maybe one time, I will build a small radio with a 433Mhz antenna and an Arduino or a Raspberry card.
The range of the signal will be really low, but it will be good for RC or to talk in morse at the home.
Anyway, that was great. Greetings from France ! :D
Yes, Morse code has lots of shortcuts to make sending/receiving less tedious.
@@TechGearJunkie Haha. I see that.
Have a nice day !
very good 73's F6GBZ
Tnx for sharing a fun QSO. Good job, super rig. I love my KX3, and prefer it to my big Yaesu. CW is the most fun and rewarding mode. I'm 99% CW and prefer ragchewing over contesting. 72/73 DE N6MGN
I work from here in UK regularly to the US with between 1 and 5 watts and NO holy cow at all.
Overall, your CW skills not bad. Give a bit more spacing and you'll nail it quite well. I'm too attached to my straight key, the original I got back when I entered the hobby over 40 years ago. Because of my apartment situation for now, I'm limited to 2m/70cm but that'll change and I'll be back on HF in due course. 73's - NN5NN
One word: mobile.
Nice honest contact and in real time. the buddy pole sure did a nice job. 73 ve3rjg
you are also left-handed, like me)))
This is so cool! I really want to try this, but obtaining the equipment and qualifications seems fairly expensive and a lot of work.
I'm sure if I ever do get started it will be worth it with the fun I'll have talking to people.
If you just stick to low power morse code, the equipment is not super expensive, and can even be built with super cheap kits. Thanks for watching!
Nice contact, great video. I love my KX2!
Thanks. Yes, it really is a great rig.
Your thumbnail got me here, I struggle to understand, you are testing the range of a reciever you leaved behind you (other country) and send morse code to it to see how far your transmitter goes ? Looks cool to me ^^
A south paw using your right for cw, multi tasking at its best
Nice video Greg. You have me thinking about placing another order with Elecraft - I have lusted for the KX-1, but since they're out of production I may have to go with the KX-2. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
That guy thanks for watching. I love my KX-2.
Was that a cheat sheet in the baggie? If so what all was on it ? Great video
Yes, that's exactly what it is. I don't use it so much anymore, but for learning I put common CW exchanges like TU CU AGN and so forth so I wouldn't have to think to hard when sending. Thanks for watching.
I came across your video by accident...I just posted a video with a similar title, but changed my title when i noticed this video. That's some great landscape you have there, and the video is very entertaining even for this guy who can't send code to save his life. Well done and 73 from VE3TWM.
Well, I am glad you found it! Thanks for the kind comments and for watching.
"Only CW"? Great callsign! 73, SKCC 9257
Have you talked to this guy again since making this video?
I emailed him after the contact, he was very courteous.
Hi Greg I think it would be better if you use manual key. You have better control. Self ex merchant Navy radio officer.
Thats on my list of things to do! I have been looking for a straight key that is reasonably portable. Thanks for watching.
What antenna is that?
It is a Buddistick.
*You are running your OS in Los and your AS in Lunas together* Also you know you are not supposed to use paddles when making an SKCC contact, right? Lastly 10 watts is not generally considered QRP. Nice job though.
Need to tell Bert to QRS TO 12 WPM
Esta bueno el chisme, pero nomas se entienden entre ellos
Great video.
I like to work on the air QRP.
Do meeting on the bands!
73! from West Siberia de UA9OTW/QRP.
Huh. Left handed but key right. No way I could send with my left hand.
Yes, that's just the way I learned, out of necessity I guess.
Great video, and nice to follow along with the subtitles. I am curious have you ever tried the Yaesu FT817/818? Just wondering if there is much difference it, and the KX2 for portable QRP ops.
Alternative3d I have not, but I know that it is a great radio as I know some folks who have one. For me, I chose the KX2 because of the available internal tuner, that's just one less thing I have to carry around with me. Thanks for watching!
Up to 5 W is QRP CW. With 10 W is QRO. Regards. Max, IW3ILM
Good qrp qso👍👍
De EK6CW
Nice DX Greg!
K8MRD RADIO STUFF thanks Mike. The squirrel helped.
I am a beginner at this can you comment on what antenna you are using please?
Sure its a Buddistick. www.buddipole.com/buddistick.html
Welcome to portable operating and thanks for watching!
Mate, you have got the weirdest writing/printing style I have ever seen, not to mention how you hold the pencil! But good video mate!
🇧🇷🤝 73+
Why did you give him your SKCC number if you were transmitting without a straight key? 73 de OA4ASD
Its just automatic for me now.
👍73!
What kind of watch are you wearing?
Johnny that's an Orient Ray II.
TechGear Junkie oh ok. I’m familiar with it.
omg man you cant translate it to english ?
Awesome. What time of day? Absolutely no noise. He was barely registering a half an S-unit!
It was just around noon my time. Yes, that wonderful little KX2 was really pulling him out. Great rig.
@@TechGearJunkie Not that early. I've operated around then on 20m. I am going to have to try for some DX CW then. I also second Jason's comment - the new intro music is great.
@@douglasdreger3852 I just remembered, you can clearly see the time at 04:30. :)
Did you ran out of Data?
Which antenna u use?
Lars Pregge it’s a Buddistick.
Что за антенна у тебя?
1SHTURMAN1 this is the antenna. www.buddipole.com/buddistick.html
@@TechGearJunkie спасибо за информацию! Сравню с моими антеннами для экспедиций.
这是什么台？看起来像套件，是sdr嘛？
Its an Elecraft KX2
@@TechGearJunkie 非常棒，很像"郁金香"DIY套件。
Nice video! What were the numbers sent after your name?
I think you are referring to my SKCC Number (Straight Key Century Club). Bert sent his so I responded (even though I was not using a straight key).
TechGear Junkie that must be it, thank you!
TechGear Junkie ps I know what you mean about the cw rag chewing. I get fatigued very quickly and start to lose focus and characters!
Заставка как в порнухе из 90х))) без обид)
Boop. Boop. Booooooooop. Boop booop. Boooooop
It s QSO make ONLY ANT OP from France
Since when is 10 watts cw QRP and why are you sending SKCC number when using iambic key
Relax. Take a deep breath. It will be okay. :)