Our First Net! Success on 3.780 Today. As it Happened...
Great fun on the NET today as a first test. I certainly felt less out-on-a-limb. Combining playing radio whilst making new friends is a great way of keeping spirits up. Feel free to play this in the background - and you can tune in from anywhere in the world at HackGreenSDR (google) and type in "3780" into the frequency field at 11:00 UTC Mon-Fri. Callum, M0MCX. In the log today: G3ZIY, G4NIZ, G6LBQ, G6JMX, G0HOR, G7LEU, MI3RBM, G7PKG, EI8JB, GW0AGZ, G4UUQ, G3RYP, G0CQZ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM6dzt-iIMk
Grab a coffee! Lots to discuss this time. My order for 750 antenna poles, The new DX10 antenna wire, my wire antenna presentation, why not to use steel antenna wire, advertising on Youtube, my aluminium plates (although the comments seem to support the idea I have this right already), shipping costs, mail opening(!) and where is Joe Walsh? LOL 73, Callum. PS - Subtitles are running slow. I'll sort as soon as I can.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc89wGArjcA
Facinating results today when I raised the antenna 1m (40 inches) at a time. No frills. Just hard fact science. Follow me for the results! Callum, M0MCX. DX Commander
#vhf #height #dxcommander
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP3_Rkr9Z8M
Wendy announced a massive party a few months ago and it's all coming together this weekend, in blistering hot sunshine. So the party will be in the garden, running my smaller PA as an extension. Should be fun. Oh! And thanks Tom Hoffer for sending me the amazing T Shirt!
My Shop:
https://www.m0mcx.co.uk/store/products/
Playlists:
All about Verticals: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAjpQM3cGOdP8Yf5bVs_pZn3un9vHyaAr
My Crazy Vlogs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAjpQM3cGOdMnBjGJhMyYAum91t7jElos
Ham Radio Foundation Training: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAjpQM3cGOdOC_KixMcUop85YyJutHCFx
Goodies for radio buffs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAjpQM3cGOdMVk1jWAyXjoy4cGUbZs7tc
Software for Radio Guys: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAjpQM3cGOdPSCJNIyLAhzyFpPp5eNw_T
Antenna Software Modelling: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAjpQM3cGOdO83PLddRqsmwQzEGGAAwHd
Ham Radio Tips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAjpQM3cGOdMAcrcmVmLWiGh045ToGByu
PS Sub-Titles help out some folks and non-English speaking people. If you are bi-lingual, you can help the others by contributing your time to closed caption subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UCEWRZEIjVQB8aUkyUQ-g-zA. Let me know if you've done this and I can give you appropriate credit.
Enjoy your science folks. Good luck. Callum. M0MCX.
DX Commander Founder.
Music: Epidemic Sound
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pfF29h8DPk
I got asked yesterday about Balanced Feeder so I thought I'd give you a quick check on my experience and how to use it. You will of course need a proper Balanced Tuner. Oh, and while I'm at it.. try not to tune your coax too hard. Coax hates high SWR :) Callum.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9KmsGnijQ
Fantastic 48 hours. 760 contacts in the log, working the world, from ZL, Japan, US, South America, Africa - and that was just 40m band! Thanks Tom M0RMY and Tim M0URX for helping me put on a GREAT show and to YOU guys who joined in the LiveStream and gave s a boost. FANTASTIC! Antennas were DX Commander Expedition and 80m dipole using DX Commander DX10 antenna wire. Superb couple of days. Thanks! You can listen and look back at the HOURS of livestreams here: https://youtu.be/-JI8mjJMXOc, https://youtu.be/9U0i7GvGJLI and https://youtu.be/a89TOFTXHog
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFXQLYEuD0
Normally, we might have friends about but with the virus thing, I thought we could share this together..
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtqCSb-ciNs
Always looking to trim back my /P amateur radio gear but I do like 100W and a laptop when I'm on holiday. I think I'm now at the minimum anyway. What about a headset? Got any ideas? Callum, M0MCX.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSjo0O_3p0Y