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Hey Simon great video! I'm following the Amazon links but I don't see what tripod you're using with the mirror mount & 17' whip. I have the same DIY setup on a tent stake but I like the tripod too.

Good idea! I used aluminum tape for a ground plane with a smiley super stick GMRS and vhf antennas. Also used for yagi elements over fiber glass rods. Works great!

Dummy load.

For the emergency mode, try with the choke at the feed point.

Simon this is brilliant thinking 👍🏼 we all need your enthusiasm and crazy but good ideas thank you 🙏🏼 new found favourite subscriber 73 Geoff VK3GBE

Great work!! Love the enthusiasm.new subscriber from uk 🇬🇧

I was going to get a 40' Spiderbeam pole, and put a pulley on top and tape measure on the bottom. Then an actual fishing reel as the pulley line tractor... I could see feeding the tape through a conductive sweeper that you could clamp to so as change the length w/o having to re-clamp an alligator clip. That counterpoise array looked pretty sweet. Did you use a balun, or what what the impedance of your lead line?

A right mess of an antenna, a right mess of a video. Congratulations, and woo-hoo.

You were getting him off the backside of his antenna...

Nice!! Good work mate. I made a 2m & 70cm rollup j pole using faraday cloth tape - You've given me some ideas now to use this cloth tape as radials on HF or even make a fan dipole. Thanks 73!

I've used 30 foot rolls of tin foil for radials before.

Great Video Simon! I actually tried this a few months back. I was too lazy to run to Home Depot and buy a screen to make a magic carpet and has a roll of sheet metal. I put them out like I would radials, used a bunch of Alligator clips and fired my rig up. After a bunch of fiddling around and a few well placed swear words, I got some decent results. I've been building all of your antennas and love the idea of being able to do a MacGyver and throwing together something works. It has saved me a few times, Thanks again...73...Hugh...KN6KNB

Cannot seem to find that tape. Any help here?

Nice video, Simon! Did you by chance get an inductance measurement? WRC claims their Sporty Forty is on the magnitude of 40 uH if I recall. I was planning on building one like yours since they are having production issues but I think I would need about 28 turns for that inductance. Thanks! de KC0DWZ

Could hear you in Manchester. But the pile up was to great on long path I'm amazed how well the bands were. Sorry couldn't hear Bob. 73 from io83to

Emergency Mode is such a great feature on the 7300. Great job with the antenna!

Great work Simon!! 73!

Great work Simon!! 73!

Great work Simon!! 73!

If you cut the plastic sheet in two parts and laid them out facing out you would have a sort of caged dipole. Fun video! Robert K5TPC

I heard the flutter last night. Hi Simon!

Very, very interesting

I think it was Aurora flutter you may have been hearing, I am think if it were long and short there would have been some delay , not much but some. Still very cool !! VE1SK

The long path from us to ca seems like it should have much more reverb delay, based on a video I watched of 2 paths audible t same time …. Might have been auroral?

Very cool. Saving this for future reference when I start experimenting with antenna projects.

I like this antenna, too.I made a vertical antenna with a spiral copper tape winded up on a piece of wood trim an d it works good enough on 80,40,20 meters bands.

Great work Simon woohoo. Lol you told the mobile station to watch the youtube video but he cant because he was driving. I just had your video on while driving over to wales. Its just doing the reply which is the problem hihi 😂 you just have to remember to look up 😉😁⚠️ 83 mate

Fantastic video simon something different. Just shows people that you dont need a lot of kit. 👍🏽 73

Great video!

That is one super stylish gear bag

WooHoo first comment!

Did the weight of that wire choke put too much strain on the original connector?

Baofengs are junk! If you're going to buy a Chinese radio, get a RADTEL or a Quansheng.

Wooo hooo Simon! Always a great video my friend! Here's a real world question for you ... given the size of that amp coupled with the IC-705, why not just replace both with an IC-7300 for an easy and consistent 100W on 160-6M? It's a much cheaper and more convenient package (not including the VHF/UHF option). Maybe those operators who mostly do QRP (with their IC-705 in this case), an amp like this gives them a QRO option once and awhile? What do you think since you primarily POTA with an IC-7300 like me 😀73 KJ6ER

It can be used cross band repeater?

I use a SPOT X, not an InReach. It already can receive texts. Is that supported? VE7VIE

you very rich buy so many radios every month jejejej congratulations

do y'all have a website to ham jazz sos ? not sure what it does?

This is a great DIY . Love it . And being a ground plane instead of dipole . You don’t need a Balun . And able to angle the ground plane to bring the impedance closer to 50 ohm . Love it

I've been using SOTAMAT for the last 6 months and love it as a service to help with my POTA spotting.

great video, interesting.. thanks all.. VE1SK

🌊 l 'd dip those radials in the seawater.😉

Wow, that was great, I saw the upcoming live feed announcement but was going out5 the door to teach a class. I got home a few hours later, saw you were still streaming, and fired up my Xeigu G90. After some tuning around (including hearing two guys discussing medical issue of the old folks - which I'm one of), I heard you. I was glad I was able to make contact. Always a pleasure Simon. Have a great day and thank you for your contribution to amateur radio...73...Hugh...KN6KNB

What was your antenna simon. thanks

I regularly do 100-125km with my Fang UV21R. My 20 watt mobile doesn't seem to do much better. I'm near VE7RVA, and hit some south island repeaters no problem, such as VE7AQW which is 123 km away.

I remember sailing those at the radio shops I work at.

Simon, you're always up to something interesting! Thanks for all of the great videos and livestreams. Keep up the great work 👍

WOW thats really cool simon got to get one of these great vid mate

A bit over a decade ago, I was tired of trying to run extension cord to solder, so I bought a cheap butane soldering iron from Harbor Freight and used it to make all my connections until it eventually disintegrated a few years later. I replaced it with a better one more recently, though I've not had to fire it up yet (though that will be changing soon). Enjoy the vids -- keep up the good work! 73 de N8ESP

I wonder how many will now be bought just to end up later unused in garage sales Hi Hi ? M7BLC