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I've been in search of that elusive 23cm simplex contact so great work! 73

Mike, I’ve seen the twisted DC power cable before. What purpose does it serve?

Great video!🎙

I will stick to my Wolf River coil. I have a buddy stick. No good.

I have the BuddiStick Pro as well and for what it is, it does surprisingly well. Once you learn where the counterpoise lengths are for the bands you want to tune, setup is quick and simple. It works much better with a longer whip though as the actual radiating part of the antenna is only 4’ long. Great video Mike!

The BNC on the base tripod is a major weak point. I know personally.

I ran a 7300 next to a 991a for a year and ended up going with the 991a. I had friends that have owned their 7300 for years that sat down with me to try and get the most out of it and it just plain couldn't compare to the 991a. I now have the 710 as well and I think it has better receive than the 991a.

Liberty Chill! Congrats on the POTA DX and the USB 40 contact! Not many can claim that! 73

7.200 😮😮😮😅😅😅

Great job men! I liked the whole video. The USB mishap was cool to leave in ... All of it was fun. The rundown at the end about the advantages of traveling with the antenna was helpful. 73!

That antenna is really well designed. It would be nice if it had a longer whip, but then the tripod gets flimsy. Great job.

I have this antenna in my arsenal and it does good for being a compromised system. It scores really well for portability and with a 100w rig you can get on the air just fine. When I have time I prefer wire antennas but that's not always feasible

You two did a great job. Loved the review of antenna. I am oven in Boston NY, I remember that heat wave. 2 days we broke record high and 2 outher days we tied record. and was super HUMID as well. now after we cold. near record cold . Girlfriend put extra blanket on bed. Bands been the same hear . At night 40 meters noise floor comes up a lot. like S 9 . 80/160 meters S10 or higher. and that a park that in winter months . 40/80 gets going real good. USB on 40 meters . LOL . well FT8 is good. I had some luck 17 meters lately. 10/12 been closed . been some graline action. 10 and 6 meters. 73's

It was great getting to work you guys park to park last wednesday, 73 KE9AGJ

awesome vid mike! Kc9rlp 73's

I made some contacts with a cb antenna days after getting my tech license I was definitely running high swrs on my 7300 I cut the cord and made a wire vertical and that is the first antenna I had I talked a lot of people on it including you at a new park we had a brief QSO a couple weeks later I found your channel and said hey I worked that guy on POTA 😂

Antenna time! Nice work! 73!

I've got several mag mount CB antennas. Good to know in a bind it'll work on 10m. It looked like it may have tuned up 12 as well. The 17 foot whip is amazing. I have the Chameleon model and love it.

Great stuff as always, Mike! Keep experimenting! Keep F'ing around and finding out. THAT is what this hobby is all about.

6 meter follow up?

Interesting experiments . Yes the HF bands been weird before field day and 6/26 still bit odd. some 6 meters . The outher day 20 meters around noon was pretty flat but 15 meters was hooping real nice FT8 . 12/17 /10 not so good but got a 6 meter FT8 . Pretty much 40/80/160 totally un usable for me. S9 to S15 noise floor at times. summer like that for me around Boston NY . 73's

I’m looking to get on 1.2 when I get my license what would you say is the cheapest way to get into 23cm

Hope more Hams doing QRP. So there would be more fun on the bands. Nice video! 73

Ja es tut weh aber der 7300 hat nur durch falscher Mundwerbung seinen Absatz aber ja der Gebrauchtmarkt ist voll , hab denn 710 getestet und top Gerät und das Menü ist sehr leicht wenn man es verdrehten will 😉

I bought a 4-band HT over 20 yrs ago which includes 6m FM and 1296FM, neither of which I've ever used. I think I just forgot about those bands and used the 2m and 70cm bands. I may have to charge the battery and try them again. Thanks, Mike, for the inspiration :) de KA8VLW, Ken, Michigan

I wonder how far a GMRS handheld would go with a Nagoya 771 GMRS antenna I just purchased the Tidradio TD-H3 and will be studying for my Technician soon to get into ham radio.

Super video, Mike! Echoing VE6LK, this is just the ticket for ARRL FD, too!📻

Exactly what I needed for ARRL Field Day - thanks Mike!

I dig that you've got Madvillian playing in the background.

Have you tried any of the Boefeng all band radios or other similar ones with the modded firmware ? From what I see on UA-cam the range is from 18 MHz to 1.3 Ghz and they can be purchased for 40 dollars. Compared to the 900 dollars for each of the 1.2 Ghz and 900 MHz handhelds, I would really like to see a good real world side by side test the next time you do a field day. I bought a couple of the DMR dual slot radios for around 60 dollars and I was impressed with how well they worked. I keep hoping that Boefeng or one of the other Chinese companies would make a dedicated phase 2 digital scanner. The same factories that make these brand name thousand dollar HTs and Uniden scanners make the 30 dollar all mode generic radios. The level of corporate greed is just insane. The radio costs 10 dollars to make and they sell it for 900 dollars or more. The same thing with the Uniden and G5, they charge 800 dollars for a receiver that costs 20 dollars to.make. I saw sneakers in a store in Philadelphia yesterday that were behind bulletproof glass. They looked like the same material used in the 20 dollar Walmart sneakers, but the price was 3500.00 dollars. For sneakers. That is wrong on a level that has no words. I thought for sure that Kenwood and Icom and Motorola would lower their prices once the generic radios flooded the market. But they didn't. Very sad. My HOA made me take down my tower and antennas yesterday. I guess I will sell all my radios, since I can't use them without the antennas. People just can't leave others alone. They can't see someone happy. They are only Happy when they are hurting others. I weep for the human race

Bunch of Nay Nays that did it... hope you are not a Biden Supporter, otherwise, you are just as guilty as the asswpises that did that to that camp site..... Vote Trump.. Otherwise all of your knowledge is meaningless.... But thanks for your knowledge, sir.

Holy LDG batman! Lol. Does that antenna have to be in a vertical configuration? I'm not familiar with it.

Well done! Thanks for sharing and 73.

I use sandbags on the ends of the tripod legs.

Fantastic to see you getting on 6m and the higher bands! Nice work Mike! Alinco made some real cool random HT's back in the day.

Do you have a video on how to program it using the keypad

For my tripod, I either slide an Olympic weight over the mast and it rests on top of the 3 legs. I have hung weights under other tripods. Olympic weights have a larger hole in them. I usually use 10 to 15 lbs.

👍🏻 I'm looking for an antenna switch myself, Mike. I have an ATAS-120a, and the Yaesu FT991a. I'll be interested to hear what you're looking for in a switch. Congratulations on the 6 Pack Award!! 73 de KJ7LLX

1296.100 is the SSB calling freq, not for FM. Nice to see you figured out the bandplan and moved to the FM portion. Get yourself an IC-9700 if you don't have one already and try some SSB and CW on 144 thru 1296mc. You will have tons of fun. de WE0H ..

What Yagi did you use for 23cm? I have 3 23cm radios and am looking for one for POTA and home. Thanks

that log periodic seems great

But why don’t you drive instead?

Great video, Mike!

I’ll be working my FT-818 for QRP day!