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Thanks for a great informative video on this topic. I’m looking at hitting more repeaters in my area and this will help! 73

Fun video! I'm researching NVIS so that my ham wife and I can get contacts with another ham radio couple, @e4emb Ed and Shantel. We typically can't get eat other because we're so close. 73 Mike N4FFF es Becky N4BKY

Squash the smaller Loop a little bit. Increases the output. KG7IRJ Ohio

What do you use for grounding

That was so cool. Still blows my mind how hf works

I've got my eye on the kx2. Do you use it as a base radio with the optional amplifier?

Beginner here and currently looking for a tuner for my MPAS 2.0 and my Icom 705. As far as I understood the main advantage of this tuner is that is tuning near the feed point? Any reasons I would use this over e.g. Icom AH 705 or the MAT 705?

If you buy the mat-50y you have the same tuner but with a control cable to the FT-710. This way you take advantage of the automatic tuning just like with the internal tuner. Take a look at the mat-50y (yaesu). 73 Phil ON4VP

Nice! For 20+ years I have been running a 18ft vertical dipole with (auto) adjustable center loading on each leg. 1 inch aluminum tube. Very portable because it doesn't need any support other than the base and it breaks down with thumb screws in to 4 parts. For the most part I don't need a tuner for 40 meters to 6 meters. My favorite setup but I'm always interested in trying other options.

Man, I get *_”sticker shock”_* every time I shop for ham gear! Even the *USED* items are expensive! I’m sure that Chameleon products are worth it *IF* you have the money, as in _”buy once, cry once”_ .. Still, I sometimes wish there were an equivalent of _Harbor Freight_ for ham gear. I put together my initial _”survival kit”_ from Harbor Freight items. Gradually, I upgraded to better quality items and kept my _budget_ items as backups. *73 de AF6AS in **_“DM13”_** land*

Measuring the ground radials is not required - the lossy ground below will detune them, which is why you need the antenna tuner. The best research, summarized in the ARRL Antenna Book, indicates you would be better off with x 45 foot radials. My own tests support the research. Look for articles by Rudy Severns, N6LF to support this point. Not that you cannot use measured radials, but they are surely detuned, so use more wire - make them all 45 feet and it works better. Again, my own experience and measurements support this point. Nice video - good luck. Thanks. JT

keep the details. JT

Kevin, an excellent overview of the Hustlers and QD2 especially for new hams. And your comments about flexibility are right on; I am changing the mounting I am doing right now. One extremely valuable aspect of your videos is your voice over explanations while pausing for a good video look. I love to screenshot great ideas, saving them with your credits of course. vy 73 Peter PS I have an old Webster Bandspanner to try out too as well as hamsticks. Good fun.

The Hustler antennas works much better than the Hamsticks. I used Hamsticks for more than 4,000 activation on most of the HF bands. I switched to the Hustlers. 73 de N2NWK, nice video.

Big fan of verticals here. I routinely reach Europe with a 20m ham stick in a magnetic mount sitting on a water tank in my yard and 100W. I've even had contacts in Moscow with the water tank special. That half baked set-up has been so successful that my finger is on the trigger to buy a DX commander. 73.

It is disappointing that I had to search through so many videos to find one for portable mount. Thank you for this clear and detailed overview--just what I was looking for!!😀

How does it work in 11 Meter/ CB ?

Is this comedy ?

This has given me food for thought. Maybe an option to try for NFD.

Mine does the same from time to time, mostly when it's cold. I've had to replace the VFO encoder and that was not as cheap of a part but the hardest part was that the encoder I bought didn't come with the connector, so I had to splice on the old cable. For 3x as much I could have bought a genuine Yaesu part, which was the same exact one I used plus the connector.

Fielday has always been a contest, among other things. Ron W4BIN

Why wouldn't you have the feed point down and run the wire end sloping upward or do an inverted L?

Thanks those are awesome

hahahaha, thats why Ham Radio seems like is designed for retired people. 4 hours setting up an antenna for portable!!!!!! wow, I don't have 4 hours to just play radio! Great build, that for me will be a home base forever installation! By the way, that's the beauty of fan verticals like DX Commander, put it up and no tuning, yes, less bandwidth but no tuning, I personally prefer the no tuning, probably just tap it up with the radio tuner. by the way, the place where you are camping looks amazing!

Also good to keep unit cooler in the Sun. Black gets so hot in direct sunlight!

Just replace the boring hybrid comfy car with a gutsy buckboard and that antenna issue is solved. As manly as it is Ingenious! Can't wait to tell the XYL!

Kool setup 73

Assembly Video by Doug W2GT I have one of these that Doug built, it's a great tool! ua-cam.com/video/eagrh9v_H78/v-deo.htmlsi=Hzr6JWPxhY_CdSuL

Great video

Need to add the third iteration of it…..

Such beautiful scenery there! What area is this located at? I really liked your video especially all the details!

Nice presentation, really enjoyed it. Just getting back in hobby after 56 years (been in Military Service and State Department.

This is excellent! Just what I needed. Thank you! I'm subbed!

Is that a metal picnic table that you have that antenna setup on?

maybe it could work in atas-mode ? the ft857 and other models should do, remember to remove the t-bias to run this way.. rgds fm oz1fjb - ou2v

Fitting all that into A single Vid. Well Done! DE N2RAG, 73's

Where can you find a 43 foot window washing pole?

very cool!

Why didn’t you just drill a hole and join them together with a bolt wou don’t have to make them super tight and they will not turn ? Just wondering .

Love the details. With RF, the details (little things?) matter!

Re: electrical tape. Generic electric tape has a tendency to deteriorate into goo after a while. 3M 33+ tape will not do that, and it has some UV resistance as well.

Look what they used on large ships in the early days and up to WW2, also on some long wave land stations, they used hexagonal or octagonal clusters of wires in parallel, the wider the antenna element the wider the bandwidth. a cluster of wires simulates a meter plus wide element. A three wire cluster should be quite useful for hobby mobile usage.

I like field day because we can try out different antennas without nosey neighbors passing judgement or HOA Karens running in.

USEING WHAT YOU HAVE AND MAKE G O O D USE OF IT IS A GOOD MANS BEST EFFORT! DO NOT FORGET EARTHLINES FOR 80M 40/15M 20M AND 10 M LOW END AND 10M HIGH END IE THE 10M FM BAND!

For a ground mounted vertical you do not need radials for every band. In this instance 8to16 43 ft radials would do very well. The radiation pattern of single wire verticals varies with the band. If the antenna is electrically too long then low angle radiation is diminished. This antenna will have so-so but very usable performance on 80 and 40. It will have excellent low angle radiation on 20. This antenna will have a lot of high angle radiation on 10m and 15m will suffer a bit. If you use this antenna on 80 through 20 it will be quite serviceable.

I like building antennas so this is right up my alley. I've had a FT-710 for a couple of months to use as my portable to replace my FT-891. I love the 710. One of my permanent antennas is a DX Commander Classic w/80m. It's been up for 2 years, survived 100mph straight line winds a few months ago, and I've only taken it down twice for routine maintenance. I have limited space for radials so I cut 32 three meter radials 360 degrees around the base. It's a great DX antenna. Although a little noisy I can hear stations with it that I can't hear with any of my other antennas. BTW I run an FTdx-10 in the shack. Thanks for the great video. I like the details.

Thanks for sharing, didn't watch it actually, when you said the bandwidth altered with wire compared to tubing, I was confused, as this should not happen, only loading alters bandwidth. Different lengths of radials is not nessary , it's the amount, unless elevated radials are used. Not sure what's going on there, but something is not right somewhere ! I have tested two verts on 20m, one is wire up to a tree and one is aluminum pole, both 1 . 4 to 1, and exactly the same bandwidth. 73

Good presentation. Thanks K7SWC

Great information, Kevin. I made a 7-band homebrew version of the DX Commander and that's what I use for my camping setup for doing POTA particularly the Support Your Parks weekends. It only takes about 15 minutes to setup and teardown and it works great. I only use 20 12 foot radials (4 bundles of 5 wires) and it works great for me. 73 de Bill, N6EF.

1. The DX Commander works well. With reasonable ground conductivity the radials need not be resonant, and I have good ground conductivity, so I haven't bothered with tuning the radials. If you are in town, however, more of the QRN is vertically polarized, so a vertical picks up a bit more (though maybe the 710's NR will deal with that too). You'll have to check your radio, but both the FT-991A and the FT-891 have an 1/8 " stereo jack on the back labeled ALC/Rem that is normally used with either the remote keypad that you can buy or with an external linear amp (so that the amp can provide ALC voltage to ride herd on the drive level. Presumably at least some YAESU linears includes a tuner (since the 991's internal tuner is not relevant when an amp is in the way), so the second signal on that jack can request a low power CW signal for tuning. I use an LDG Z-11 Pro II which has a jack that provides a suitable signal to drive that low power request when the tuner is tuning, at least as a result of pushing the tune button ON THE TUNER. (The "tuner" option in the radio's deep menu must be set to "LAMP", which is not the default. The necessary signal between the LDG and the YAESU is tip at one end and ring at the other, and a special cable connects only those two pins plus the grounded sleeve. The radio end's plug is red so you know how to plug it in correctly.) If you have that connector on the 710, you could make an external tune button. If you're lucky, it's just a matter of grounding the pin, otherwise there is certainly 12V around that go to a restive voltage divider. It's not as convenient as being able to use the radio's tune button, but it's better than what you've got. If the Chameleon's radio end coupler box doesn't provide such a signal, we can hope that they will add one. (If they're using latching relays, there should be a significant reduction in DC current down the COAX that could signal end of tuning.)