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When the Group was founded in 2006, we originally were hightly active on HF and 2 meter Simplex operation. We grew as a 2 meter FM Simplex Group through out central Texas. In late 2009, much of the Group focus shifted to what is known as VHF/UHF Weak Signal. Not to be confused with QRP. This is SSB/CW/Digital/Meteor Scatter and EME. In 2011, this became the Groups primary focus. For the past 4 years, we have devoted ourselves to educating fellow HAMs on Weak Signal Activity, Station Building, Operating Techniques, Antenna design and more. We speak at local and regional clubs, we promote and host an Annual Lunch & Learn. What better way to grow the hobby, then to promote it and generate excitement for VHF/UHF Operating. HAMsters are about promotion of this exciting aspect of our hobby.
email us : hamster-updates@144200.net
Website : www.144200.net/
Face book site: groups/183341135147824
email us : hamster-updates@144200.net
Website : www.144200.net/
Face book site: groups/183341135147824
HAM Talk August 2024 - FT8 and Quadrifilar Helix Antenna
FT 8 discussion and demo and training on the Quadrifilar Helix Antenna.
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KC5GI talks Meshtastic, Digi Modes, FT8 and more
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The Three Amigo's knock out another show. Comments and questions, John KC5GI discusses #MESHTASTIC, a Show us Your Shack for Dale #KA5YEU, and we continue our discussion on FT in contest. Digi modes and #ARRL rule changes. Visit our website at : www.144200.net/ Send us your hamshack and antenna pics ! hamster-updates@144200.net Facebook: groups/183341135147824/?ref=share Intro and ...
Build a VHF STATION, Russian HAM, BAN FT8, ARRL BOMB
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Join the normal cast of nuts and Let's build an affordable 2 meter station for DXing and Emergency Communications. Andrea talks about the June Contest. Plus Raisa R1BIG experiences HF Contesting at a large contest station.... 1:19 JD gets a call LOL 4:09 Andrea talks about the June Contest 6:40 220, 2M and #70CM 432... Greg talks about how dumb he was. Talk about dummy load! 10:35 MLisa reads a...
Capturing the ECLIPSE, Tour some shacks and some funny stuff
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This month we have an interesting show. MLisa has a Show Us Your Shack, R1BIG world wide HAM Radio, fixing water infiltration on a Tram 148, interesting Solar Eclipse storyline from Andrea. And JD pokes his head in on the show. So hang with us and we hope you're entertained. 1:15 Start the show. Greg is mean to himself. 2:52 Chatting about the #2024eclipse after the event. 6:40 Topics for the s...
Pet Peeves in HAM RADIO, K2EZ cooks lunch using HAM gear
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Since Greg started it, this month we have a discussion about some pet peeves in the hobby. All about the April 8th Total Eclipse and N5XO Pet Peeves. Promoting and encouraging VHF/UHF Amateur Radio. 3:37 HAM radio pet peeves in the hobby. SAD HAMS. Let's have a discussion about issues we can improve. 10:19 Sam talks about HER pet peeve and solution. Andrea PETS her peeve, and MLisa chimes in as...
Learn how to view an ECLIPSE
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HAM Talk special. Become an expert eclipse viewer. Andrea K2EZ gives a little advice on enjoying a total eclipse this April 8th. Be safe and enjoy. Stay tuned to March HAM Talk coming soon. #hamradio #solareclipse #2024eclipse #solarviewing #eclipseviewing
Emergency Communications - Special production with KE0LMY
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Emergency Communication Training - Recommend Radio's, non-ham support and proper interaction with Emergency Managers and City and County Government. #hamradio #ARES #RACES #CERT #N5XO #KE5MHJ #KE0LMY #K2EZ #W1DVZ #ANTENNA #TOWER #weaksignal #CONTESTING #ROVING #146.520 #SIMPLEX #VHF #HAMTALK #GROUNDING #roadrunner microwave #beacons #repeaters #hamfest #feedlineloss #hardline #lmr400 #vhf
BEACONS
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HAM Talk Episode #3 for 2024 - This months Topic's are BEACONS with N5XO and EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS with KE0LMY. Plus we cover a few other topics that should be of interest to most hams - So join us. Plus a cute segment from R1BIG. The link for the full video of Sam's KE0LMY segment is: ua-cam.com/video/ZPYUgHq1JcI/v-deo.html PLEASE LIKE AND SHARE #hamradio #ARES #RACES #CERT #N5XO #KE5MHJ #K...
Halibut Station console with N6MTS - Emergency Communications with KE0LMY
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Halibut Station console with N6MTS - Emergency Communications with KE0LMY
HAM Talk #22 - Brake light antenna, Emerg Coms, June Contest
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HAM Talk #22 - Brake light antenna, Emerg Coms, June Contest
HAM Talk #21 - TOO MUCH POWER, grounding and more
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HAM Talk #21 - TOO MUCH POWER, grounding and more
HAM Talk #19 Season 3 - Raisa guest segment, and DC cable selection
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HAM Talk #19 Season 3 - Raisa guest segment, and DC cable selection
HAM Talk #18 - Entry level radios for VHF weak Signal & Amanda K1DDN of HAM Nation fame
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HAM Talk #18 - Entry level radios for VHF weak Signal & Amanda K1DDN of HAM Nation fame
the chocolate mint crawled away LOL
lol poor Andrea the motor lodge sounds like a bad place LOL
chainsaw massacre, hotel california, maybe psycho LOL
She has more adventures a month then most of us do in a life time :)
fcc wants to take away 900 MHz. be sure the lora wans you have don't use 900mhz. will this be an issue?
Yes we have been watching this closely. I have 2 900 MHz repeaters as well as the Meshtastic....so right now a little concerned about the potential to lose this......and as normal I have seen nothing from the ARRL on it......I hope they are on this and I am just missing the information.
im from the south we might mispronounce eff tea ate :)
yep I do what greg has with grounding surge protectors aka polyphasers and still unplug during lightning storms or when not in use like sam mentions
yep ga copper is good its upstate from me
OMG Sam!!!!!!! she's actually here. I can't believe it LOL :)
Havent seen anyone in the swapmate last Friday and Saturday talking about Meshtastic.. Also Medina country has more users in SA.
I did not either....but other than a little activity from the HAMsters I have not heard of any activity or planned....And to be honest I have no idea if anyone else or clubs are doing anything.
@@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup need more mesh nodes😁
you guys should record your hamster club meetings and post them online too. :)
We started doing recently posting the training portion of the meetings in the show...Not always but on topics we believe will be of interest to others. you have given me the idea of live streaming our club meetings and we may start doing that in the next month.
I know I look much better than I used to my hair is so much shinier and my skin much softer because of sharing these videos.
We are happy to help, by the way we learned in a very recent study performed just 5 seconds ago that those who share 500 times absorb the fountain of youth and live forever.
Good morning, I enjoyed the program. another great entertaining and educational episode. Meshtatstic seems to be a great EMCOM tool. In addition to coax loss, Connectors is another loss concern Greg clued me in on . I have had experience like Greg mentioned, Six open and no phone and cw happening but FT8 is active. I agree, digital should not be on the same playing field with phone and cw. looking forward to the next episode. 73
Enjoyed the segment about FM simplex. Learned a lot. The loss chart on the different types of coax was very informative. And I one Million percent agree with the notion that digital modes should have their own SEPARATE categories for contests-by themselves- and not be counted with other categories in any way, shape or form. IMO the digi modes have their place, just like HTs; but not in contesting unless it's a contest specifically for them alone. I don't know if anyone else noticed and I haven't done any specific research yet, but in the raw scores for June VHF, it seemed the overall number of entries was low. That could be a number of factors I guess: summertime/vacations, the ARRL-LoTW issues, etc. Great show though. Keep up the great work. I know there's a lot that goes into it. 73! Michael-WA5AZQ
Thanks for the feedback Michael We will be addressing most of your comments this coming July episode
Why do people dislike FT8 so much? What is the value to FT8 and what are the negatives? I have no working knowledge of FT8. Would like to learn more on it or more on why I should avoid it.
I might be off on this (disclaimer) but I’m going to give it a shot. FT8 was designed as a weak signal mode, created to be used to determine propagation conditions. To me, that’s the plus side. It’s surprising how far very weak signals can travel. An indication for potential communication using other modes (I.e. analog). The downside is, I believe there is an automatic mode allowing you to make connections while you’re away from your station. Some would call them QSO’s because, technically, two way communication between stations happened. People will go after WAS or DXCC using FT8 and it can happen in a reasonably short period of time. However… There are those of us who have committed to two way communication between two people, as the definition of a completed QSO. To me, automatic FT8 is like you buying a nice sports car (your radio) then hiring a driver (your computer). You wave goodbye to the driver as he takes your car out for the day while you make quiche. When the driver comes back with your car, you tell the world what a great driver you are. Not really the same as you acquiring the skills to be a great driver and maybe making mistakes you have to fix. Put another way, self driving cars might be a hit with the nerds among us but I’m pretty sure it will be a long, long…long time until we see self driving race cars more popular than human driven race cars. I’m not opposed to digital modes as long as there’s a human at the controls. I’ve been tempted to try QRP EME and meteor scatter. I live under a major east to west flight path for commercial and military aviation so airplane scatter is a possibility. Those would be great situations for digital modes. As someone trying really hard to get Mobile DXCC (currently 75/100), I’ll be d@mned if I give credibility to “FT8 DXCC”. ARRL’s website lists ~38 Hams with Mobile DXCC compared to ~370, for example, who have QRP DXCC…no easy feat! If FT8 interests you, go for it. …just, please, don’t tell me about “your” accomplishments. I know the difference. 73 de WB3CFN
I have never used FT8 before. It does not appear you all are fans of it? Why?
I will refrain from replying to this until the show - so stay tuned to next months show.
Ok I may be creating a fire storm with this question. Lol .. as most know I just got a new Tram1481 base antenna it is from ground 50 feet in the air .. now here it comes I have people telling me you got to ground it oh god you got to ground it ... OK my pipe iS 4 and a half feet underground in the ground.. no concrete but has support it isn't going anywhere that's for sure .. but have a guy telling I still have to ground it .. even the pipe is 4 and half feet underground to me that Should be enough ground.. am I wrong or do I need to get a 8-foot grounding rod and beat it in the ground and run wire ?
New to your channel - Love the energy and the content.
Thank you and welcome to the channel
people don't have to have Mike Fright im a friendly guy LOL :) when sam was talking about their cert team.
that chart greg shows of the different feed lines and how much power you get out of the 50 watt radio is a big deal. Amazing the amount of loss you have using smaller cheaper coax.
I consider feed line the most vital part of a station......It all starts with the feed-line and antenna
greg listing the stuff he has on the presentation he's giving. .......geeez Will you adopt me Greg LOL :). If Greg adopts me and Sam marries me were gonna be one Big dysfunctional ham family LOL
Sure, will petition the courts for the adoption tomorrow. :)
id like to learn more about the icom 9700. have jd do a talk on it. Im curious if I buy one do I need the gps clock card for it?
Unless your going to be doing narrow band digital modes on 23cm the radio standalone is fine. Honestly once the radio warms up if your only operating 23cm the fan never comes on because TX power on 23 is only 10 Watts. I have two 9700's and use both of them stock with the exception being I did add some ceramic wool over the reference oscillator RF shielding can for insulation. That alone stabilized the frequency considerably as the fan cycles on and off when in 2/70.
Only if you are doing some EME or such....I have had NO drift issues with either of mine mobil or the QTH
wait sam is divorced? marry me@@@!!!!!! LOL :)
yeah!!!!! another show was just outside picking blueberries and it started getting hot so came inside and low and behold y'all posted a video
SO HOW COME YOU ARE NOT SHARING THEM????
Just found your channel as I’ve been looking into getting into weak signal VHF. It’s good to see some young women enjoying the hobby as well. Thank you all for your time and effort to get some great content on the channel!
We drove 12 hours each way for 4:05 of totality, clear skies Indiana. Long distance 1296 record with 8 band Pluto+ SDR: 18.5 miles sideband contact with 78 milliwatts, 10 element yagi. Pluto+ was under $300, less than 1/10 cost of IC905. It fits in a cigar box.
Technically we drove 86 miles to see the eclipse, but as we were up at our ranch for the entire weekend. and the Monday eclipse....I guess we can't count that :). Unfortunately we were not able to view the eclipse at all, it was 100% cloud cover for the entire day.
M Lisa's setup is just fine and is more portable than most. As long as it gets you on the air and works who cares.
Scotts got what I want. WOW what a setup!!!
We are going to try and do a full video interview and tour or Scotts station in the near future.
I was lazy I just watched the eclipse on tv. I switched between channels to see what was covered..
Hello, N5XO! fmr KF5NTJ
And hello to you.....Is this Sebastian?
@@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup yes, or I used to be!
@@arjayrivera6535 need to join us for breakfast again some time.....Been a long time.
@@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup I’ll send an email to the Weak Signal Group for details.
Nice quick helpful hint video M'Lisa
That is a serious Ha Shack! Impressive
Thank you......We have been busy expanding it into microwave bands - My goal is to enter retirement in a few months and be able to have some radio fun.
Forgetting to assume the best in others causes me distress.
I thought the 'golden rule' was: he who has the gold makes the rules, (and has the biggest tower).
sadly it is....far to often
OMG thats crazy charging what they are for the eclipse.
lol one should never pet ones peeve LOL :)
definitely not a newcomer. Love yall.
Great show, also liked the guest tortoiseshell cat! ,
Her name is Brownie, a Maine Cool. Also is known as my little dog or doglet cause she used to bark when she was little. She is my old girl now at 13 years old and unfortunately not in the best of health. I am glad she came up to join in.
I did not know this. But How do I know at what point to take the glasses off? If I'm wrong and there's too much glare on the edge won't I burn my retina?
That is a very good question. And yes you don't want to risk it. In a simple sense it will become fairly dark and looking thru your solar glasses safety glasses you will see nothing. At that point totality begins. If you have timed out how long totality will be at your location that is when you start your timer. Personally I would give a good 10-15 seconds margin before I go looking. In 2017 I was using a telescope (and will do this eclipse) and then it gets to nothing in telescope with sun filter it is pretty clear it would be safe to look directly. I grant without the telescope there may be a point where some tiny amount of direct sunlight is still there that with sun safety glasses on you don't see anything. This giving it 10 to 15 seconds margin. There are phone apps to help time it as well as web sites to get the specific times it is safe. For me in 2017 I relied on my telescope with filter to know for sure when the last sliver of sun was covered. I knew I had about about three and a half minutes to set myself a timer for 3 min to be safe. As happened, I was viewing from a Walmart parking lot with lots of others and others had better timing than myself and some were giving countdowns to when glasses needed to be back on.
HamTalk?? All I can hear are islanders chanting.
Tower Monkey LOL :)
boda boom boda bang the new song by alvin and the chipmunks LOL :)
Nice video man. I like it
I feel like we should have had some Bonnie Tyler music on in the background LOL :)
Very cool thanks for sharing. Looking forward to it.
great presentation my only complaint was sam was so small we couldn't see what she was showing or pointing at on her tiny screen. Otherwise loved it and will use it as a class for a local ham club if y'all don't mind.?
I personally do not mind, and I do not believe Samantha will either, but I'll let her respond to confirm.......As a rule I have no problem with any of our HAMster video's used as long as credit and link to the shows are provided.
I run 10 GHz and my favorite mode is rainscatter. There are folks in the microwave circles that have made contacts out to 600-800 Km via rainscatter while running anywhere between 2 and 10 Watts. I run 2-3W into a converted DirecTV dish with 34 dB gain (measured on an antenna range at a Microwave Update conference quite a few years ago), and thus about 6000W ERP.
My station and operating ends at the 23cm segment, I have been intrigued of late by 10 GHz....and some of its capabilities with a small dish. I would love to use it for EME, mostly due to it's small dish size - I have done at a friends station a couple of rain scatter and that is fascinating stuff......I just did not get to do enough of it to get a real feel.
sounds like we need Bonnie Tylers Total Eclipse of the Ham song played.
that might be a great idea :)
Hi All, great show ya, Your station is looking great Greg. The weather in Jim Wells co. TX is in the low 70s for high temps and mid 40s for a low temp. Greg introduced me to weak signal uhf vhf from then on I was hooked . I was always told that uhf vhf was line of sight , when I made my first ssb contact to Florida I was amazed at the ability to make dx contacts on uhf vhf via Tropho. I also love speratic E contacts on 2 meters in the summer .Great info on on emergency coms. I have been trying to set up an informal neighborhood com net on fmrs for emergency situations . There have been a few times here where we have had bailouts and communication with neighbors would have be better through radios rather than phones. Enjoyed the show keep up the great work ....... 73
Took me a long time of working you on 52 during my travels to Southwest Texas to get you on board...but once you did ...look out work you were on the way.
Great presentation
Thanks JC.......
He is talking way too fast. How do i listen at normal speed? Is there a playback speed control?
Not sure why a couple of our shorts are running fast, will look into it - but here is the link for the full show so you can watch the segment you wish: ua-cam.com/video/m0rgaH_z3HI/v-deo.htmlsi=Cjs6xcoPHTwyGtj1
I really like the original interview. It is one of my favorite segments of the channel. thanks @@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup
Thanks @@zyzaxaphone
Ya, M'Lisa kind of speed this puppy up some hu? Them Monster drinks do it every time :)