HAM RADIO: YAGI/BEAM 23cm - 70cm - 2M Beam install and wired
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2024
- HAM RADIO: YAGI/BEAM 23cm - 70cm - 2M Beams up and ready to rock and roll,
Finished the install after many months of planing and gathering of antennas, triplexers, poles and Coax, Its all finally up and running.
Antenna grounding is done via the poles bottom mount to an earth rod
Hey why not look it up and see for yourself I'm not an expert on these matters just a guy that is giving it a go and sharing my experiences.
Hope you enjoy...
Just for fun
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Cheers
Mike - M0MSN
P.S. do not take my word for it, give it a go for yourself. - Розваги
I just watched your 4:1balen build video with DX Commander. Led me to your channel. I'm just getting started with Ham. Been on the Emergency Services side of things for 26 years. I'm enjoying gaining knowledge in HF through UHF frequencies now. Thanks for putting these videos out!
Many thanks.
that’s a really nice job of cable management and bracket mounting that any pro would be proud of
Thank you
That is a station to be proud of kg6mn
Just discovered your videos. Interesting implementation for combining the antennas. Nice shack and great videos!
Thanks and welcome
I'm on 23cms in IO52, no contacts yet, 9700 10w, 23 element and LNA at 12M above ground
Try you on the next 23cm Tuesday night shouting match
I see a duplexer outdoors. Since the IC-9700 is a three connector I have to assume there is another duplexer indoors. One duplexer inserts far more losses than I'm willing to live with for weak signal work. Two of them in one system would be a real problem for me. I fully get trying to be efficient with cable use and types. But the losses of the two duplexers combined is probably much more noticeable than a single run of high quality coax will save you. Otherwise, It's a great looking installation! GL and 73s.
Yes true, I am looking at replacing with three cable runs sometime in the future.. :)
What did the IP68-rated box say to the drill? "I thought we had a water-tight relationship!" 😆
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Spot on sir!
Great video and install Mike. Think you could squeeze a couple more antenna's up there 😆
73
Good idea! 😆😆
First you bugga!
Very nice Mike!
Thanks!
Nice job as always
Thanks :)
Nice install Mike 👍🏻
Thanks Ian
Nice job!!! You will be able to knock Cal out of his chair 😂😂😂...Seriously though, very nice job, I like the clear coax jacket, looks more clean than the standard black jacket..So do you recommend ferrite beads for 2m and 70cms??? I'm about to replace all my coax and some people tell me you do not need a common mode choke for 2m and others insist on it..What's your advice? There is a company here in the states called ABR Industries that will install and heat shrink up to 7 ferrite beads on your coax from the factory on LMR 400 flex..
I' not sure if they help or not 🤔 but I add them and I do not get any RF in the shack... :)
That's a good enough answer for me to have them add them! Thanks for the expedient reply!!! @mike-M0MSN
Thanks for sharing your installation with us. Is that a Unistrut pole?
My only concern is that clear coax, I dont think it would be UV rated, but I could be wrong. Things don't last long outside downunder.😐🇦🇺🍻
You are correct, I will probably change it over in the near future :)
itd be interesting to see if we can work each other on 2m SSB. reckons im in the green on your map!
See you on the bands :)
Are you stacking bananas, Mike? 🤣
lol thanks Svein
Now that is a tight install Mike, very nice. Out of interest what software did Callum use to plot those radiation patterns?
I hazard a guess and think Radio Mobile Online - also has a PC Version - its a great tool and worth the effort in getting it setup.
@@alzeNL Thanks, i will take a look at this later.
I have no idea, Cal can you help here please.
No pole grounding or coax shield ground? How come.
The pole is grounded via the bottom bracket to earth rods, the antenna are on a fibreglass pole, grounded via a lightning break to the same ground rod.
@@mike-M0MSN wanted to say. I loved your video. Excellent set up and the antennas look amazing. Wish i had that.
Thumbs up sir.
Nice setup.thats my next project installing a yagi and vertical on one pole i was just wondering how have you grounded it.
The pole is grounded via the bottom bracket to earth rods, the antenna are on a fibreglass pole, grounded via a lightning break to the same ground rod.
So I thought you were trying to find a use for the 4-50?
Yeah that stuff is realllllly hard to work with...
Would love your advice and help at my qth
I see your satellite dish on the wall quite nearby. Does your TX'ing interfere with the tv signal?
Simple answer, nope
what was the software you used to disply the expected coverage plots? tnx
What co-ax did you use ,looks good.
LMR600 for the main run and SFT-393 for the last bit...
Is the comet triplexer just as good as the diamond mx3000n ? Mike M1KEY
Yep I think so!
It would be interesting to see what your loss is with that RG-400 on 1296mhz I think your BANANAS would be mush leaking out your yagi🤔🤔🤔 Cheers W9US
Yes the coax used turns out to be SF-316/ or similar (Timesmicrowave) with a loss of .041dB over 30M/100ft, it was given to me by a Cell tower engineer some years ago.. Wish I had lots more. :)
@@mike-M0MSN well then your firing 🔥 bananas 🍌 watch out birds 🐦
I see three beams on a stick, I see a vertical multi bander on a stick, but I didn't see any 30ft parabolic dish on the roof, or 5 stacked 6el 80m Yagi's on a stick. How are you going to work DX without those? You need more antenna's than radio's, the bigger they are, the better they are, contesting is the ONLY form of radio allowed in Europe now isn't it? It's ALL I hear in my rural area in Australia, BIG noise with BIG signals coming from Italy, Germany, France, Spain and a few others.....
Have some sympathy for us QRP operators in Europe... :D
So true, well I'm off to the DIY shop need a bigger Tower to put them 6el 80m Yagi's on..... lol
@@mike-M0MSN Make sure you take a banana along for correct calculation of the appropriate measuringness