Friday before Field Day and a couple on 40 were complaining about all the "pip squeak" stations. I broke in and told them that a lot of clubs were running a QRP field day. The response I got was "Well, ya need at least 1000 watts before we will talk to you, what are you running?" when I informed him that I was at 100 watts he was shocked! lol
Aww, you had to talk about Todd. He told me when I had just got my General license "You are a general, you should be running 1500 watts! How much are you running now?!!" I silenced him with "4 watts from West Texas to Georgia." While talking to him I turned my power down from 100 watts to 4 watts and he didn't even notice..
I should have watched this prior to going on the air. You are right on point with the good, the bad, and the ugly. I’ve already experienced the smug, I have a radio station types that won’t give you the time of day. But having said that, I’ve also experienced hams that wanted you to experience the good life of amateur radio. And for those who took the time to help “Elmer me”, I am very grateful. And to those whose smugness I could feel through my speaker, well, I will tune you out, just like you tune me and the many 100 watters out there. I am learning, growing, having fun, and getter better with the craft each day because of hams like you my fellow Floridian. Thanks again! 7 3 Tom KQ4DCT
I have had my Amateur Radio license since 1992. I have mounted an if rig mounted in my pickup. I bought a hustler mobile antenna with 20, 40 & 75 meter resonators from a gentleman online. I find time to operate mornings between maybe 8:30 and 10:00 Central Time. I have found a lot of general DX and individual CQs on 20 meters. 40 seems to be mostly nets. I find most stations on 40 to be from the northeastern Atlantic seaboard on down to FL and around to TX. 40 is mostly a friendly band that I have found. One day I decided to try stringing up a 45’ wire antenna from my truck with a 1:1 balun and a 15 meter wire as a counterpoise from my truck along the eave of my front porch to a tree in the yard just for kicks. Oddly I found that it tuned SWR-wise across 80-15 meters in their entirety with 1.3:1 or less with 10 getting around 1.7:1. I could receive on it just fine but was unable to get out. Does anyone have any ideas about this???
I have Extra and like having those frequencies, but I spend most of my time in the Novice parts of the bands. Thanks for giving me a good idea of frequencies to avoid. I've been off air maybe 10 years and a lot has changed.
i love QRP i pass test few years ive still got loads to learn had first had a nice contact from UK to spain used only 5 watts few days ago my radio ft450d never used more than 10watts 73s : )
Great video on 40 meters. This is where we did our nets for a while when I was setting up my station. Running an icom ic701 with 40/80 nvis, wire antenna(much shorter). Good solid band. Looking forward to your 60 meter video. Never used that. Thanks again. KY3M
I've been radio silent for 15 years... back then I used to do a lot of analog satellite on 10m, 2m and 70cm ssb, I was also active on meteor scatter on 2m using wsjt and 6m along with aurora propagation on 6m... I also did contact MIR and ISS voice ! I sold everything I had when all satellites started to crash and fail, enven the long awaited P3D failed and that was it for me... sold antennas and ft847... and a month ago, I decided to get back on the air... got the ic7300 (that is already for repair) and I build a end-fed antenna. I got mixed feeling about hf from the little experience I got in around 12 days... it seems a LOT of americans do not care about other country specially when english is not your first spoken language, exactly like describe in this video, I am RARELY welcomed to take part in a conversation (besides freakn medical conditions that I hear for hours...), I feel like these guys know each other for 40-50 years and don't care about talking to anyone else specially if there is an accent and poor signal... not only I got to operate for 12 days before sending the radio to repair, I have not got any good experience with anybody maybe besides making a nice contact with w2gor, a nice soft spoken gentleman who was kind enough to exchange with me for 15-20 minutes even though he was calling cq and I actually did learn new things... I mean I just want to say hello, exchange a little bit... but it seems either I need to cope with freakn qsl cards when I make a contact or I am rejected from a conversation... I mean, can I just reply to someone that call cq without bothering with qsl cards ? Can I my self call cq without bothering with logs and qsl cards ? I don't mind report the signal to anyone who call cq but it seems innevitable to deal with qsl cards... as for the rag chewing, it seems to be difficult to integrate with others groups... Now without a radio for 3 weeks, poor experience to date, a lot of money invested (reminds me of the old days... man did I pump so much money into this satellite hobby...), I wonder if this is a good idea after all... when you have no body to talk with beside giving signal reports for 10 seconds to someone else and deal with qsl cards, I am not sure I make a good investment... specially now that I know icom radios are pretty cheap units...
Very informative. Thank you for doing this. This is the first time I've watched your channel. I have subbed. I look forward to hearing more from you in the future. 73, de KD7SJT
Hello Eric !! I have been watching your TH-cam video's and they have been real helpful to me, I just got my Technician License back in April of this year , I have two hand held Radio's and one is digital which is a "Radioddity GD 77 and a Baofeng UV 5 R which is Analog and has 2 Meters on it , Ia reall 'm hoping to get a "Kenwood TS 2000 " 100 Watts with all the whistles and Bells on it . LOL and also Cushcraft Vertical which has 6 Meter's , 10 Meters,12 Meters ,15 Meters , 17 Meters and 20 Meters and its called the "CushCraft MA - 6VA "
Your audio is dropping about 6db during your recording. When you cut at the end it came back up and then dropped again. Another great content video. N6OA
So newbie question....If 40 meters is more effective after sunset, then how is it that they are making contacts to areas well within daytime conditions?
Friday before Field Day and a couple on 40 were complaining about all the "pip squeak" stations. I broke in and told them that a lot of clubs were running a QRP field day. The response I got was "Well, ya need at least 1000 watts before we will talk to you, what are you running?" when I informed him that I was at 100 watts he was shocked! lol
Aww, you had to talk about Todd. He told me when I had just got my General license "You are a general, you should be running 1500 watts! How much are you running now?!!" I silenced him with "4 watts from West Texas to Georgia." While talking to him I turned my power down from 100 watts to 4 watts and he didn't even notice..
I should have watched this prior to going on the air. You are right on point with the good, the bad, and the ugly. I’ve already experienced the smug, I have a radio station types that won’t give you the time of day. But having said that, I’ve also experienced hams that wanted you to experience the good life of amateur radio. And for those who took the time to help “Elmer me”, I am very grateful. And to those whose smugness I could feel through my speaker, well, I will tune you out, just like you tune me and the many 100 watters out there. I am learning, growing, having fun, and getter better with the craft each day because of hams like you my fellow Floridian. Thanks again! 7 3 Tom KQ4DCT
I have had my Amateur Radio license since 1992. I have mounted an if rig mounted in my pickup. I bought a hustler mobile antenna with 20, 40 & 75 meter resonators from a gentleman online. I find time to operate mornings between maybe 8:30 and 10:00 Central Time. I have found a lot of general DX and individual CQs on 20 meters. 40 seems to be mostly nets. I find most stations on 40 to be from the northeastern Atlantic seaboard on down to FL and around to TX. 40 is mostly a friendly band that I have found.
One day I decided to try stringing up a 45’ wire antenna from my truck with a 1:1 balun and a 15 meter wire as a counterpoise from my truck along the eave of my front porch to a tree in the yard just for kicks. Oddly I found that it tuned SWR-wise across 80-15 meters in their entirety with 1.3:1 or less with 10 getting around 1.7:1. I could receive on it just fine but was unable to get out. Does anyone have any ideas about this???
40 meters is your best bet for finding a ragchew concerning the operator's medical conditions and doctor visits.
I was saving that for 75/80 meter video HAHA
Well that hasn't changed in the 35 years I have been a Ham ; )
HAHAHAHAHA
You're right, lol.
@@HamRadioConcepts 80m, the geritol band
I run QRP and I kind of feel sorry for those who think they have to run 1500 watts all the time ; )
I have Extra and like having those frequencies, but I spend most of my time in the Novice parts of the bands.
Thanks for giving me a good idea of frequencies to avoid. I've been off air maybe 10 years and a lot has changed.
i love QRP i pass test few years ive still got loads to learn had first had a nice contact from UK to spain used only 5 watts few days ago my radio ft450d never used more than 10watts 73s : )
New to the hobby. Lot of good information. Thanks. First time I heard about 40.
Great! Please continue to follow along.
Great video on 40 meters. This is where we did our nets for a while when I was setting up my station. Running an icom ic701 with 40/80 nvis, wire antenna(much shorter). Good solid band. Looking forward to your 60 meter video. Never used that. Thanks again. KY3M
Thank you very much this very informative video. I'm an HF beginner and this helps me a lot.. 🙂
73 de HB9XBK, Roman
I've been radio silent for 15 years... back then I used to do a lot of analog satellite on 10m, 2m and 70cm ssb, I was also active on meteor scatter on 2m using wsjt and 6m along with aurora propagation on 6m... I also did contact MIR and ISS voice ! I sold everything I had when all satellites started to crash and fail, enven the long awaited P3D failed and that was it for me... sold antennas and ft847... and a month ago, I decided to get back on the air... got the ic7300 (that is already for repair) and I build a end-fed antenna.
I got mixed feeling about hf from the little experience I got in around 12 days... it seems a LOT of americans do not care about other country specially when english is not your first spoken language, exactly like describe in this video, I am RARELY welcomed to take part in a conversation (besides freakn medical conditions that I hear for hours...), I feel like these guys know each other for 40-50 years and don't care about talking to anyone else specially if there is an accent and poor signal...
not only I got to operate for 12 days before sending the radio to repair, I have not got any good experience with anybody maybe besides making a nice contact with w2gor, a nice soft spoken gentleman who was kind enough to exchange with me for 15-20 minutes even though he was calling cq and I actually did learn new things... I mean I just want to say hello, exchange a little bit... but it seems either I need to cope with freakn qsl cards when I make a contact or I am rejected from a conversation...
I mean, can I just reply to someone that call cq without bothering with qsl cards ? Can I my self call cq without bothering with logs and qsl cards ? I don't mind report the signal to anyone who call cq but it seems innevitable to deal with qsl cards... as for the rag chewing, it seems to be difficult to integrate with others groups...
Now without a radio for 3 weeks, poor experience to date, a lot of money invested (reminds me of the old days... man did I pump so much money into this satellite hobby...), I wonder if this is a good idea after all... when you have no body to talk with beside giving signal reports for 10 seconds to someone else and deal with qsl cards, I am not sure I make a good investment... specially now that I know icom radios are pretty cheap units...
Whats is your QTH?
@@Justin-bd2dg Quebec Canada
I love the work you are doing on these informational videos. Keep up the good work!
as soon as I heard you say: "call CQ don't just look at a map", I noticed the Callsign N0MAP
Good eye lol
Well done these videos are very educative lessons for us the Beginners in HAM Radios A+++++
Great info through the whole video. Thank you.
Very informative. Thank you for doing this. This is the first time I've watched your channel. I have subbed. I look forward to hearing more from you in the future. 73, de KD7SJT
I have a whole series on these bands. Make sure to check them out :)
I have pretty much grown up on 40m and have had mostly single band radios. Besides 10m and VHF/UHF, I have not spent much time on other bands...
Very nice video ! Wish there was TH-cam back when I got my ticket 1996 ;) fyi Planet Fitness rocks!
Hello Eric !! I have been watching your TH-cam video's and they have been real helpful to me, I just got my Technician License back in April of this year , I have two hand held Radio's and one is digital which is a "Radioddity GD 77 and a Baofeng UV 5 R which is Analog and has 2 Meters on it , Ia reall 'm hoping to get a "Kenwood TS 2000 " 100 Watts with all the whistles and Bells on it . LOL and also Cushcraft Vertical which has 6 Meter's , 10 Meters,12 Meters ,15 Meters , 17 Meters and 20 Meters and its called the "CushCraft MA - 6VA "
eric, thank you. nice job.
Your audio is dropping about 6db during your recording. When you cut at the end it came back up and then dropped again. Another great content video. N6OA
Keep up the good work man....and let's see some riffing on that drum kit behind you....hahaha
73
Jeff
WD8JM
Jeff Minnick juggle
Like Your Videos, this is N2MJF
Thank you that was very interesting
Boy would I like to meet you and learning. I'm in ft Myers. Is USB LSB the same as on CB?
Thx dude
I do disaster communications 40m NVIS
Shimano
LOL
I am seasoned but why professional?
back in the day (not that long ago) 40 was a mess at night..right from 7050 to 7300 with all the foreign broadcasts. Nothing like today....
So newbie question....If 40 meters is more effective after sunset, then how is it that they are making contacts to areas well within daytime conditions?
Great video. However, Extra is not that hard. Bob AE5SD
It may not be that hard but surely doesnt make you a "better" operator, that was my point.
What antenna(s) do you use and why?
Great series. You touched on a lot of topics and kept it interesting. Keep up the good work. KA3AUD
Where can I find the band plan you’re looking at?
www.arrl.org/graphical-frequency-allocations
www.bandplans.com/index.php?band=40
You might want to put those links in the video descriptions for all the videos in this series.
J. Williams sorry, probably forgot
I'll get to it tonight,..
Look at Australian 40 m
Great information. KI6TLK
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