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I only recently found this place and haven't ventured too far into it. Granted it's been <40 degrees and the midst of winter, but the bathrooms are warm and the tables are good operating spots, lol. Maybe we'll run into each other there some time. Thanks for watching!

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@@CoaxAndCampstoolslol. Dude I thought I was tough activating in 35 degrees today then you post this :). Man I gotta get my straight key fist going!!

I can't one-up your key collection... or your CW-prowess... or your pink socks... or you charming good looks... All I had was the mustache, and that's gone. All that's left is to out chilly your activations. I know what I must do, I just don't know if I'm strong enough to do it.

It's a whole new muscle memory. The professor would probably be thrilled to have another person to work the club gear. The more the merrier!

Shhh, don't say it out loud. It won't work then. (plz pick me streamyard)

Lol, FT-891 is a solid rig to start on, as well as grow with. You would be starting off right with one. I was fortunate to be able to sell mine to a newly minted Tech who will hopefully put it to use more often than I did.

@ yeah they are solid, prob will snag one for mobile and easy pota. I scooped a 991a cause I thought I wanted a “shack in the box” w/ the ability to do 100w if needed but turns out there isn’t much activity on 2m/70cm around my little town. Kinda wish I had went with a dx10/710 but I love 991a. I’ll end up with one of those two plus a 891 and eventually a 101mp before it’s over. I’ve got the bug now 😂

100 Ah battery is a big boi! I'd need a cart for all that. It is a very capable radio, absolutely agree. I'm hopeful that my future radio(s) are able to fill the hole that selling the 891 has left.

I'm not the marathon type, but I'll help out at one! ha. Thanks for watching! It's the 50th Marine Corps Marathon this year.

@coaxandcampstools Yes, my buddy is always trying to get me to run it again but I’m done with marathons after 3 😂 I ran the NYC marathon in November and saw a few support hams. I’ll be running both Cherry Blossom races in DC this year though!

Happy new year, Paul! Congrats on the license! Now the journey begins. My FT-710 should be arriving tomorrow. We'll be FT-710 buddies. I'll be lugging it out to the field at some point too. Thanks for watching!

Nah, I muted the guy in the background yelling "Ahh, my leg!" after the ND so it seemed like no one got hurt. Always happy to hear your "terrible fist"

Thanks, and thank you for watching!

Guilty as charged. "Roger Roger" and if it's important they'll say it again... maybe.

Aside from the mast, everything should fit in your tactical fanny packs you've been rocking. Just put it in your pocket, then people can ask "Is that a mast in your pocket or are you just excited to POTA?!" When I'm feeling courageous, I'll do some capital mall shenanigans. That's a lot of people in not a lot of space for me to content with.

G90 gets it done. Thanks for watching!

Lol, the first "5NN ......... WV" takes a bit. Roadtrips get you too because you have to remember what state you're in.

Maybe I was talking about someone else... Not that many people make that mistake. Pink headphones would match your shorts and socks. They'd see your drip from space.

My wife introduced me to the Michigan mitten and "I'm from *points to spot on hand* here in Michigan." The thumb would mean nothing to me otherwise, lol.

We stick in there with eachother, lol. Between me messing up your call nearly every single time and you on your bug, it's all good. It was nice getting you in the log over the last few activations. Thanks for hunting!

I'm amazed it didn't make it into the mic with as loud as that guy was. He was in there for a long time and was nice enough to close the door all the way after about 15 minutes. Thanks for watching!

I'd say the only reason the wires matter is because of the assumed "front" of the key having all the components on it, but yes it doesn't really matter. Interesting idea with using circuit board traces as the capacitive component. I'm not electrically inclined enough to know whether that could work or not. From what I remember: As to the third point, the sensors are capacitive through interdigitated conductors. The plastic enclosure has some... give to it with an air gap separating the conductive layers slightly. Pressing the key reduces the capacitance enough that the circuitry overcomes the gap. There's a word for the gap that I can't remember currently. I'll try to dig up my key and get back to you about that. If I'm wrong I'll tell you :)

@@CoaxAndCampstools - In VK3IL's blog he describes how the bias on his FET gates is operated by a voltage divider which, when his sensor is touched, drops the resistance from >10 meg ohms down to less than 20 K ohms which results in a jump in gate voltage (95% of the drain voltage) that triggers the FET to fully conduct. I have a hard time believing that the "pressure" sensors are anything more than two conductors designed in a spiral. When I take my DVM and put it's sensitivity to 200K, then touch the lead tips, the resistance drops down to say 130 K from infinite resistance. Given the length of the spiral, it is reasonable to think that the drop is proportional to the length of the spiral and how much of it is "touched" when activating the FET key switch. One could set the (open switch) voltage at the gate with two actual resistors and then trigger the gate (raise the voltage) by putting the spiral sensor in parallel with the resistor across the gate/drain if the spiral doesn't drop the resistance far enough on its own. I'm certain this would work and could be accomplished by just making the spiral out of traces and as an integral part of the circuit board. I don't have the means to design or fabricate the idea but does it really matter what causes the voltage increase at the gate? The cost of the touch paddles would be reduced by 50%. Also there is no compelling reason to design the thing with difficult tiny SMD parts, given the parts count is so low. I would recommend a TRS connector as well. I notice that Adam K6ARK's touch paddles operate on an entirely different design philosophy - sensing a change in capacitance rather than a change in resistance. I'd be interested to know if the sensors you have actually drop in resistance when pressed with a purely insulated object, like glass or plastic. If it doesn't drop, then the sensor is not sensing pressure, but is sensing your skin resistance. (I could be wrong about the sensors as I've never had a chance to play with them. As a design consideration, I think the pull-up resistors in the dit/dah inputs is about 1K for most uControllers. VK3IL uses a 470 K resistor for his source/drain bias so the drop in sensor resistance easily swamps the source/gate resistor and causes the triggering of the FET. Thanks for getting back to me. I appreciate the conversation.

Definitely. XIT too. It's easier for me to just tune slightly off freq though. I suppose I could just leave RIT/XIT on while I'm scrolling around hunting, but I honestly didn't think of that until typing this out.

It's a nice vintage key. Probably older than I am, but works well. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching. I've never heard of that method, but I'm curious to hear how it turns out. Sound much less tedious than my buffing method. The key is still going strong almost a year later. Watch out for the small plastic retention ball thing that's retaining the magnets. It's under spring tension and will launch if you give it the opportunity. Let me know how it turns out!

Hi again. On second thought, I'm going to use your method. Probably NOT a good idea to boil the plastic Parts! I verified, and mine also has the plastic.

Thank you, and thank you for watching.

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Making contacts and that’s what matters. 73!

Honestly should have tidied that up a little before I shot the short, lol.

@@CoaxAndCampstools lol, I only noticed because that's exactly what I did when I got my license. Except my feed line went all the way across the living room floor across the kitchen to the kitchen table

Recently moved into the house and am currently in the process of remodeling much of it. This’ll be the shack until I need the step stool to paint 😅

You're right, the stress was there though. We all got through it. Thanks for watching!

Sometimes I lay awake at night and think about the fella that guessed my age to be 45 when I was at Mount Rushmore. He accredited his gross over-estimation to the mustache. It had to go. I originally didn't like the J-38, but it's really not bad. What's nice is you don't need the big chunky base like paddles. $3 for samples at Home Depot. Or you can put new floors in your house and snag a scrap. 73 YYDD bleep bloop RDEFHW

Thank you! Something satisfying (and stressful) about using a straight key, especially given this key is probably older than I am. Reverse Beacon Network clocked me at around 14-15 WPM, so ballpark around there. Thanks for watching!

Fastest way to get to 18 WPM is get on the air at whatever you can. I started at 14 WPM and had a blast. Sometimes I still only grasp some, lol. Thanks for watching!

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I listened for you during your last QMX (RIP Lil Naked Bro) activation, but I think I got to you... too late :( I'll be listening for you though for some Jason 2 Jason CW action!

@@CoaxAndCampstools He was a real trooper. In addition to the antenna disaster, I was overvolting him b/c I didn't have the right battery with me, and turned off overvoltage protection, so I knew I was playing with fire anyway! Hope to get you in the log from the East coast soon!

Unfortunately my video editing delay has caused the hair on my upper lip to be lost forever. There may be a strand or two hiding behind the faucet. While my morals have prevented me from mailing shaven hair to another man up to this point in life, I can make an exception for you. While I respect your sensitivity, nothing prevented my west coast friends from spending 47 cents a minute to remote into a Maine station to hunt my on 40 meters. Therefore, my inclusivity threshold should have been met for UA-cam Standards. I need the good stuff, bro. I may as well have a T-Shirt that says "No Mosquitos Allowed"

Thank you! I'm not 100% which your referring to, so I'll give links to both. The actual thing that I'm zig zagging my wire through is a Wire Antenna Link by K6ARK on Printables: www.printables.com/model/326108-wire-antenna-links What I use as my guy-line winder to tension the overall line is another K6ARK product, his K6ARK Wire Antenna Winder: www.printables.com/model/383037-k6ark-wire-antenna-winder-ul-wireframe-model That winder just has 550 cord around it that I wrap/unwrap depending on how far I need. Thanks for watching!

It is the little red metal? Piece that you used to adjust the tension on the guy ropes. It is at approx 7:27 in the video.

@@rclewen lol, I linked everything but what you were looking for. Link below. Off Amazon: a.co/d/ezqTR7V They work very well on 550 cord with the internal strands, and good enough on the gutless 550 cord that I use. Certainly well enough to tighten down antenna wires.

@@CoaxAndCampstoolsthanks! That’s perfect! N7BBQ

You probably could have worked them... oh wait, you're in UT, which stands for "Ur Too far for 40m"

Beautiful, thank you for the feedback. I'll widen the strain relief holes and drop a V2 on printables. How much power are you pushing through the stacked FT37s? I think I have some that I bought not realizing how small they were that never left the original packaging.

@@CoaxAndCampstools I wasn't planning on doing more than 5 watts, but I haven't even made a QSO on it yet, just swept it with the antenna analyzer. I think 5 watts should be OK, but it might need a size a bit bigger, not sure yet.

@@CoaxAndCampstools There's a couple of popular EFHW unun kit that I'm pretty sure use one FT50-43 core, and advertises as good for 5 watts CW, so a double-stacked core of the same type is probably just fine.

Radio costs too much I'll just make my own *clown face, egg plant, water droplets* (I'm on PC)

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It was a lot of fun activating Idaho, Wyoming, and South Dakota. A few very beautiful states up north. I wasn't too fond of SD once it turned into the plains, but the 80 mph speed limit sure was nice.

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KH1 GOAT. It really is a nice little radio.

Cool to hear someone making something you came up with. Let me know how it works for you, or if the design needs a tweak. Thanks for watching!

Interesting. Maybe that's why I never really noticed a difference only looking at where the 10 meter dip fell. I'll have to take a look at the 6 meter dips the next time I'm playing around with it. Thanks!

That's adorable that you and Mrs. KI7QCF watch radio UA-cam together. My wife's eyes glaze over the second I start talking about radio. In my defense, the hair tie seemed pretty new. I don't think there was even that much hair in it when I found it. dit dit.

Hmm... That will either put more bulk there causing more stress on that joint (because it hits more stuff), or it will help keep everything in place and prevent joint fatigue over time. I'm not sure, but that seems like a good idea to try. Now I just need to find a glue gun, lol.

I have some elbows, I'll throw one on and see if it makes a difference. Most times I feel like the bulkhead is pointing right at me when I'm using the antenna and the elbow wouldn't do much. One way to find out! Thanks for watching!