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I haven’t been on HF since the CQ Worldwide Contest. Hope to get on during the holiday at some point. Thanks for the comment and Happy Thanksgiving!

Awesome! Thanks for the signal report!! 73!

Good luck! Keep training! 73!

I don’t have a license or gear yet.

Thank you. My channel is a work in progress. Thanks the comment and for watching!

That may happen with some ops. But I’ve broken into some pileups where I’ve had to repeat parts of my callsign a couple of times to complete the contact. In my experience most of them have been very patient with me or have apologized b/c they just couldn’t hear me 100% and I appreciate it immensely when they try to pull me out and don’t let it bother me and just move on so I’m not taking up valuable time for others.

I’m sure I heard you as well. I often wonder what I sound like at different spots around the world. I mean, I know I’m heard because I make contacts! 😆That’s kind the reason I started my channel to give others a chance to hear themselves. Thanks again for the comment.

I’m slowly building up my (used) Ham Stick collection.

Mine too and I don’t get on it enough. I need to send more time on it. 👍🏼

I hope it will as well. Any style antenna should work. Mine is a 50 watt end fed half wave. Planning on upgrading to a 100W end fed at some point. End feds are great for portable ops! Thanks for the comment!

10 meters will be wide open for at least a year or more and consistent for 2 or 3 years. After 3 years or so dx will be less common. Even at the bottom of the solar cycle there will still be openings for skip.

Yes it has! Lots of activity during the CQ WW DX SSB contest the weekend before Halloween! 77 contacts for me on that one!

Aww man! That Murphy’s Law right there! 😮

Thanks for the tips! 👍🏼 I’ve done that before. There are many tricks to try to get the contact that I’ve picked up along the way.

😆 My bad! I changed the title after I mixed a thumbnails & titles between a couple of videos I uploaded at the same time. Thanks for catching it! 👍🏼

I think I used the wrong thumbnail on the wrong video. A friend brought this to my attention today and I’ll fix it soon.

I was using an half wave end fed at 50W in this instance. I’m in an HOA so I deploy antennas temporarily. Instead of letting the HOA get me down, I see it as a challenge! 😃 So I try to be stealthy and try different configurations with end feds, dipoles and verticals and do the best I can with what I’ve got. Even after almost 10 years in the hobby, I’m still learning each time I’m on the air. Thanks for the advice! 73!!

Communicating with someone from Texas to Washington State, USA without using a cellphone and using a radio and some pieces of wire I made into an antenna is very cool to me! Thanks for watching!😃

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@@wa5azqhamradio i have no clue what the conversation is about. activation of what? sleeper cell? what is pota and why are you publicizing your hunt of it?

Activation of a state park. POTA = Parks on the Air

It’s amateur radio.

Thank you!! 👍🏼

I’m using a 50 watt end fed half wave wire antenna.

#truth Running a pileup on 3 different bands on 2 different rigs with up to 4-5 ops all wanting contacts can get hectic.

@@wa5azqhamradio Heh. 💯

I’ll just go with: you don’t do much, if any, contesting or you think contesting “clogs up the bands”. So without giving a TED Talk on contesting…Getting the exact exchange needed for a particular contest is more important than a true signal report…everyone that does contesting uses “59” for expediency. Contesting is a challenge to see how many contacts a station can make in a certain amount of time. It’s not a ragchew. Thanks for watching! 😃 I hope the rest of your day goes better!

Right?! He pops up out of the ether and sprays his wisdom like flying insect spray! 😆😆😆

Thanks! It’s challenging and fun!

Sorry. For some reason I’m just now seeing your comment. When it’s open, 15m is great! 50W mobile. That’s awesome!! 👏🏼

Yes. Thats analog SSB. Not digital. 15 meters was just about the only usable band towards the end of this international contest. So, as the title states, the band was VERY crowded. I haven’t completely figured out how to use all the filters yet, but I’m trying. Thanks for the comment! 👍🏼

Thanks for the comment! Thats kind of my thinking for starting my channel. I’m trying to start adding the callsigns of the contacts in the chapters of each video so if people want you to search their call, they can see how they sounded to me. Hopefully I’ll work up the courage to being in front of the camera soon. 😆

Love my 400 too. And have a 500 now as well. I have a 100 but the 400 is my fave tho! 👍🏼

@@wa5azqhamradio I have two 500’s and I wish I would’ve never let me 400 go.. I’ve since switched to a lot of anytones like the 578

My Elmer got me hooked on Yaesu’s from the time I got my Tech ticket and once I made General I bought a 991a. I’ve never owned an Anytone and have wondered how good they are.

@@wa5azqhamradio I have a Yaesu FTDX10 a Ft710 AESs a XG90 and a bunch of anytone 878s the hot models they are absolutely amazing machines you need to try one

I might have to. Do they make a 220 model?

Thanks for the question. Do you mean as a whole? It’s ham radio. Or what am I doing with the radio?

Thanks for the comment. Aeronautical contacts are really fun. The 400 is a great radio! I have family up in Denton and are up there often. I haven’t heard much activity on simplex either, but I’m there mainly on weekends & holidays. Maybe we should try & schedule a QSO. We might need some tropospheric ducting to help us. Gainesville is 30 mins from Denton right?

@@wa5azqhamradio That is correct. Gainesville is approximately 30 miles north of Denton on I-35. Have a great day.

I’m lucky enough to live near a large metro area with lots of tech companies, etc. and so ham radio is pretty popular here with lots of participants.

It's the Yaesu FTM-400. I love that rig! It’s a dual band FM radio (VHF & UHF) with 2 meters & 70cm. They have stop producing them but you can get them second hand. That’s just the control head you see there. (it does not attach to the body.) The main body of the radio is in front of it. You can see part of it at the lower left edge of the frame. My fresh content posts every Sunday about 7:00pm central US time or 00:00 UTC Thanks for the sub & thanks for watching! 73! Michael-WA5AZQ

It's the Yaesu FTM-400. I love that rig. That’s just the control head you see there. (And it does not attach to the body.) The main body of the radio is in front of it. You can see part of it at the bottom of the frame. It’s a dual band radio (VHF & UHF) with 2 meters & 70cm. It has been discontinued but you can buy them second hand. The brand new, updated model for that rig currently is the FTM-500. It's got all the same features as the 400. And there are “cousin” models that don’t have as many bells & whistles for cheaper price points-the FTM-200, 300 & 6000 are models that are all still being made at this time. Thanks for watching! 73! Michael-WA5AZQ

And here I was worried that the lack of a thumbnail would hurt this video's chances of being seen. But you watched and commented. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Here's to hoping your day gets better!

Luckily I live near a big metro area with a major interstate running through it. The ham community is very active here as well. Lots of hills helps with elevation to get our signals out further too. Thanks for watching! 73!

That is a Yaesu FTM-400. That’s just the control head. The main body of the radio is in the bottom lefthand corner of the video. It’s a dual band FM radio (VHF & UHF) with 2 meters & 70cm. It has been discontinued but you can buy them second hand. The brand new, updated model for that rig currently is the FTM-500. And there are “cousin” models that don’t have as many bells & whistles for cheaper price points-the FTM-200, 300 & 6000 are models that are all still being made at this time. Congrats on getting into the hobby and good luck! 👍🏼 Thanks for watching! 73! Michael-WA5AZQ

Yaesu FTM-400. i have 2 of those radios and love them.

@@wa5azqhamradio Sweet! Thanks for the info. I have the FT-991A and love it. I'll check these options out. 73!

@kandr4439 I’ve got a 991a as well…I love it so far! I also have a 500 that I run mobile and the 400 is now in the shack. I will have some VHF contesting videos coming out soon where I used the FTM-500 so stay tuned!

@@wa5azqhamradio Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep an eye out and check them out when you post them. I've only had my license for a month and I'm already studying to get my "general". I find myself really leaning to the HT realm but, as a technician, only having the small window on 10m is so limiting. I listen in on conversations from all over the place on 20m and can't wait to be able to jump in.

Yep. Communication has to start somewhere. 👍🏼 How long have you been in the hobby?

Don’t it tho?!?! Thanks!!! 😃

We should do a sked sometime!!! 😃

@@wa5azqhamradio sounds good jefe