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This is great. Not feasible for mere mortals with limited funds like me though.

Very useful information for a new to RTTY operator. Thanks 🙏

Great talk! Thanks

It's possible to detailed the better the antenna switches devices, interfaces software ? thanks 73's / ct1bsd

Tnx. 73, Berkin - TA3J

Thanks for the nod, Jay! I hope you continue to enjoy and improve at contesting. Perhaps you'd like to come operate with us in Louisiana? 73, W5WZ

Great tips! Thanks for sharing! 73, Tom VA2NW

Mel, tnx for the great idea!

I made several adapters. Power pole-XT-60, stock T plug tx comes with- power pole, 5150 barrel- power pole.... Everytime I come across a connector I make 2/3 different adapters for it and throw it in the bag.

I do not see anywhere that it says how much it costs to join the CW OPS academy. I see where to become a member, IF you already know 25 WPM... but I want to learn CW. any help will be greatly appreciated. NS9T

So if you have never got the Rig Setup to properly function how are you able to transmit? Seems you went through that section pretty fast. I noticed you kind of sped through the com port setup.

I just downloaded the manual for N1MM+ and printed it up… All 757 pages, now that’s serious documentation!

You connected it incorrectly. A choke should be in series with the transmission line. Read K9YC’s choke cookbook for the correct way to add a choke. Liquid electrical tape will insulate the cores, but you want them to dissipate heat. A common mode choke attenuating rain…where did you come up with that theory?

Great video! de W2CSI

Thank you for making this video very easy and informative.

Great stuff, tnx for sharing 73 🎙Ira

Amazing!

How about the guys with 100x100ft garden 😀, which I would have thought are majority of operators. Congratulations on your station.

This really needs to talk about more and shown to a lot more hams. Very Important info.

Wow! Just wow. That's an awesome station. 73, VO1MX

You have a beautiful home! In the shack, what I like best is the radio station control board. (desk) 5:12 - Did you purchase that from a radio station?

Fantastic presentation Rob, thanks!

Windows Process Explore Link is still good

Another drive I've now come across is 'Cypress' and its 'advanced' tab is different from the FTDI one. It has buffer size selections and no option to enable or disable legacy enumerator. Edgeport has the same advance tab as Cypress.

Just got one. Ham radio is one of the applications I was looking for. Thank you. KE0RKP

radio moscow would play Kenney Ball's tune midnight in moscow. I also loved radio south africa their theme music was nice. back in the old days short wave was great. not much left. 9455khz radio miami international is good. I still have my montgomery wards shortwave/bc receiver. still works.

Thanks for posting this! I’m wanting to add 160m capability here, will likely have to go with a Beverage on the Ground. Will need a second radio as well.

This was truly fascinating, thanks! It was posted almost 2 years ago, so I'm wondering if there have been any further development? I notice that Array Solutions no longer carries the Shared Apex antenna. But whether it's that one or the experimental new one demonstrated at the end of the video, I would love to get some more information on these. I happen to have a healthy amount of land in the mountains, a super quiet environment, and no neighbours, so I'd love to experiment and see what I might cook up here. Cheers!

Thanks Mel! Another excellent program.

Bob, this is pretty much what I have planned for my 160m inverted L. I currently have a 6BTV over 32 ten-meter radials fed by buried coax. I’m going to use a switch and a short length of coax to run to the base of a 5/16 λ wire with a 15m vertical run (the best I can do) and place an otherwise unused MFJ-901B T network antenna matcher in a weatherproof enclosure at the inverted L’s feedpoint. I’m hoping to use the existing radials and run it on not just 160m, but 80m as well. Avoiding the 1/2 λ on 80m will hopefully get the impedance on that band down to something manageable for the matcher. I’m pretty sure it’ll play on 160 just fine. It’s still 20°F and snowy here in Alaska, so there’s plenty of time to ruminate further! 73 DE KL7JBB

Thnx so much - well done WC9D

Great info I have not heard elsewhere. Thank you.

Thanks, just a question why did you choose WS7I? How do you decide which to connect to?

And phone ops, DO NOT just throw your suffix out...when I am V26B, I'll ignore you

Listen, listen, and listen some more QSX/UP!!!! de AA3R

HF receive antennas is a real interest for me. Thank you for this.

What an effort, congrats and thanks for the 30m CW QSO. 73's de Patrick OT5Q

My old callsign. Glad to see it being used so effectively! de K0IN/x-N5NW, x-W8MU, x-KM7W

Fantastic presentation, Chris. I enjoy contesting albeit with wires and low power, but I picked up a number of things would certainly help in the future. de KA9EKJ

wow my dream station congratulations. 73 from kb2uew

thanks, fantastic explanation 73 from kb2uew

All killer no filler as usual Christopher 👌

I have done my fair share of DxEpeditions and contesting, i agree some european stations are as well as some stateside ops are the worst for not listening or not wanting to listen to the DX, the best most respectfull operators without doubt are the Japanese, in a pileup they are a pleasure to work. Nice stepup you have by the way !

Congratulations for the Vintage equipment, Collins Line & other TX/RX, I love this look which defies the times without aging. Thank you for sharing, Happy Holidays, 73's, Kind regards to the House of F-15413 Bernard & SWL Flamby in JN38IT, small and pleasant town of Dieuze. See you soon.

I watched your video and I want to mention some concerns regarding DT. I actually talked to Joe Taylor about how critical DT is and, well, it isn't. The time window for decoding FT8 contacts is +/- 2.5 seconds and +/- 1 second for FT4. Not my words, but the words of the author of the software. - The other part is long delays can also show up when using a slow computer to decode FT8 signals. WSJTx is hugely dependent on the speed of the computer. If you have a slow computer and you are decoding lots of signals, your DT times will increase. The DT time is calculated based on the clock and the time that the decode is completed. I have personally tested that theory on a slow laptop and you can quickly see DT values increase directly related to the number of stations in the passband. - When working another station, he may or may not choose the first station in the stock, but may first choose the station with the highest SNR so that that contact can be completed reliably and quickly. Please take some time and contact the author to confirm my comments on how critical DT isn't. 73, de va3mw

Thank you for this video and explanation. My thoughts on the Fox answering to FT8 responses multiple FT8 hound people in one FT8 15 second interval. This is not standard across all versions and FT8 packages. This causes confusion. Typically my IOS version of SmartSDR for my FlexRadio does not follow this FT8 convention. My request to the developer to add this Fox/Hound capability was rejected. I have to carefully watch to see when I get the RR73 and manually log as the software never does automatically, and I’m never sure if the FT8 Fox node has logged and completed too, until I see in whatever logging site the DXpedition is using. The thing I have liked about FT8 is the standard for the conversation, but there seems to be a loss of standards in using Fox mode by DXpedition teams. I do hope a standard can be conveyed to all of the FT8 forked versions and it made clear as to why this needs to be agreed upon my as many developers as possible… thanks again for this video. 73 all Merry Christmas and God be with you all.

Nice presentation but I’m wondering why, as an owner of a microHam Double-six and Single-six antenna switch, that you did not include the MicroHam Station Master controller in your presentation. I have a couple of these boxes and they handle the distribution of all the band and frequency information to any BPF, Linear Amplifier (TX keying w/programmable delay), SteppIR (with safety complete tune before allowing TX, support for external LNA switching, as well as programmable relays and other features. I think it greatly simplifies things and combines many of the things you talk about into one box.

An absolutely beautiful and informative UA-cam presentation. Congratulations!

I was early to make contacts from 9N1, A52, VU7, and XW--all a part of my personal travel and totally personally financed with no donated gear from anywhere. I always thought of real ham radio as a boy with a dipole in a tree and a 40 Watt rig. In a hotel on Andaman Island, I discovered that my first use of their rooftop was now closed with an over roof held down by bolt stubs sticking up over new angled slippery metal roofing. Cautious for myself, I asked the hotel janitor, for a fee, to take my antenna out there and install it. As he clamored over there, I discovered he had a wooden leg! He got up my Cushcraft D-3W and I had fun on 17M with an IC-706. I carried my IC-706 with the two pieces in two separate bags which puzzled the arrival officials who had found the unmarked back part. Travelling alone with no permits in advance, I always told the truth about what my items were. Of course, never lie! Anyone who gets to travel outside the humdrum DX areas, I recommend getting on the air as you can and don't be held back if you lack a dozen or more men with you.

I gather the call sign for Baker island remains KH1. To see that turned into K1B is extremely irritating to me. However I admit I did sponser E2E, but did keep the E2 of Thailand. I like the things the same in ham radio as much as possible.