Excellent work! I was reminded of the contact I had from Lismore NSW to Ceduna SA one summer in 1975 on 2 metres. It was with a 1/4 wave whip antenna on my car, 20W FM using a MR20B valve carphone on channel B 146.5MHz.
Nice work, Hayden. You've inspired me. I've come across a 9el yagi for 2m, going to bung it up on my 10m tower at my 600m ASL Blue Mountains QTH & see how we go into ZL.
@@HamRadioDX Just so you know, I did get the 9el yagi up and worked Nick ZL1IU and Alan ZL1RQ on 24/12/22 in a big e-skip opening. More than 5W, though, used about 120 PEP. Thanks for the push, mate. 73 es gud DX OM 😃👍
I love this stuff. ZL1IU were sending the 1 as .----- I.e. one dash too much. Not dabbled into microwaves yet, since the location is far north and shielded by mountains in most directions.
This is very cool!! I’ve never tried 2.4 ghz. Let me ask. The 705 was driving the transverter at 5 watts? Or did you have an amp in line as well? Was that qrp to ZL? It was a great contact.
So cool! I remember pushing the distance limits of 802.11b WiFi in the early 2000s, VK to ZL on 2.4 GHz is a fantastic achievement, even without a two way QSO. Is the waterfall on the IC-9700 not quite right? Shouldn't the USB signal be on the upper side the suppressed carrier frequency? It received signal seemed to be right on it. VK5LN
Thanks Michael. Yes the USB signal is on the right (higher side). The scope I think was set to 25 or maybe 50 KHz without looking thus making it appear right on frequency
More carrier power on SSB, the whilst is the CW letter “K” to indicate the end of our over so we don’t try to talk over each other under marginal conditions
Well being on the call channel allowed the ZL’s to be heard in VK2 and also several other VK7’s. On any other frequency they may not of been heard. On the higher bands there isn’t much point QSYing off a call channel as activity is low. When you start piling up on top of one another then it may be an issue such as on 6 metres
@@HamRadioDX OK then. Others that don't tune around or watch their spectrum scopes deserve to miss dx opportunities. VK Spotter assists in alerting where activity is. Too many qso's occur & remain on calling freqs. on all bands during openings.
@@HamRadioDX I suggest an experiment. From what I saw, there aren't wide horizontal sidelobes with that antenna? Maybe I am wrong, but I suggest an experiment.
@@HamRadioDX move the antenna forward, so that the inductive trees are out of the sidelobes. And the humans too. I know this experiment is dubious, because of the rapidly changing ducting conditions. I assume vertical polarization. Maybe you said horizontal?
@@HamRadioDX Response to comments isn't working, I had too manually search for you're comment. I'm think about cancelling my UA-cam Premium subscription...This is pathetic UA-cam..
Great contacts on VHF and UHF! Envy you guys! Keep up the good work!
Excellent work! I was reminded of the contact I had from Lismore NSW to Ceduna SA one summer in 1975 on 2 metres. It was with a 1/4 wave whip antenna on my car, 20W FM using a MR20B valve carphone on channel B 146.5MHz.
Very cool!
Correction, channel B was 146MHz
@@HamRadioDX I am going to build the 6 meter coax antenna you featured. 6 Meters is such a great band.
Great troppo conditions and especially when changing to the 705 and 1w!! Well done chaps 👍
Thanks!
Yeah when I heard 1w I was like 😲 no way! so cool!!
Nice work, Hayden. You've inspired me. I've come across a 9el yagi for 2m, going to bung it up on my 10m tower at my 600m ASL Blue Mountains QTH & see how we go into ZL.
Great work mate! I reckon you’ll work ZL this summer, much easier on SSB and ZL1IU is probably your best bet 😉 good stuff let me know how you go.
@@HamRadioDX Just so you know, I did get the 9el yagi up and worked Nick ZL1IU and Alan ZL1RQ on 24/12/22 in a big e-skip opening. More than 5W, though, used about 120 PEP. Thanks for the push, mate. 73 es gud DX OM 😃👍
2023 thanks Hayden from Tim in Tassie, ps just watched 5 watts on Bruny island :-0
Nice mate cheers
Great contacts on VHF/UHF etc. As said, envy you lot.
Wow very cool I like the vhf and up videos
Really interesting! Thank you for that great video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent work and love the T-Shirt !! 73's
Awesome setup. I am doing some research so I can set up a mobile base station. This is part of my SHTF scenario
That's really awesome! Great work
Very nice video Hayden!
Great video Hayden pro tip grab a cw decoder for you phone. They work well.... now i have to get some portable antenna's looks like fun cheers.
Hey that’s a good idea Steve thanks!
16:15
Every man and his dog!😀
haha yep!
#ThNHR
Team replay for the win!
Very impressive. Thanks for the upload.
Super cool.
Thanks for being a part of it!
This is the work i dream to make .... Congratulations ... F5IQX .... 73
Can you make another video about receiving TV and radio stations from New Zealand in Australia?
now thats rare dx ! good work fellas..
Thanks Al!
Very good. Congratulation 👍👍😀
I love this stuff. ZL1IU were sending the 1 as .----- I.e. one dash too much.
Not dabbled into microwaves yet, since the location is far north and shielded by mountains in most directions.
This is very cool!! I’ve never tried 2.4 ghz. Let me ask. The 705 was driving the transverter at 5 watts? Or did you have an amp in line as well? Was that qrp to ZL? It was a great contact.
The 705 was driving the transverter but running 2.5W on 70cm. The amp for the 2.4 GHz TX was inside the black case running 25W.
Great to see an Aussie doing relevant videos with real DX, not the US type where they don't even get out of their own country.
Coast to coast in the US is between 4000 and 5600km, much further than this.
@@davidmaddison2628 As I said, real DX in another country.
@@vkradio1656 Give up while you are losing.
@@davidmaddison2628 how many mountains between the two parties in this video, mate?
AU to NZ isn’t even that far compared to TX to AK.
You’re absolutely ignorant.
Great video!
Awesome 👌
Thanks!
great qso. thanks for Sharing.
Great work guys. De VK3IK.
So cool! I remember pushing the distance limits of 802.11b WiFi in the early 2000s, VK to ZL on 2.4 GHz is a fantastic achievement, even without a two way QSO.
Is the waterfall on the IC-9700 not quite right? Shouldn't the USB signal be on the upper side the suppressed carrier frequency? It received signal seemed to be right on it.
VK5LN
Thanks Michael. Yes the USB signal is on the right (higher side). The scope I think was set to 25 or maybe 50 KHz without looking thus making it appear right on frequency
That UDP t-shirt 😂
@5:46 and @14:00 and towards the end of the video why do you whistle?
More carrier power on SSB, the whilst is the CW letter “K” to indicate the end of our over so we don’t try to talk over each other under marginal conditions
Wouldn't it be better to hold pre arranged qso's off the calling frequencies to avoid possible interference from others ?
Not necessarily
@@HamRadioDX ?? Why's that ? ( you know where I'm coming from )
Well being on the call channel allowed the ZL’s to be heard in VK2 and also several other VK7’s. On any other frequency they may not of been heard. On the higher bands there isn’t much point QSYing off a call channel as activity is low. When you start piling up on top of one another then it may be an issue such as on 6 metres
@@HamRadioDX OK then. Others that don't tune around or watch their spectrum scopes deserve to miss dx opportunities. VK Spotter assists in alerting where activity is. Too many qso's occur & remain on calling freqs. on all bands during openings.
No worries. I’ve yet to hear that in this part of VK7
Unbelievable! But believed. If you told this story with others they'd say Bull Shit!
Hi sir they are speaking to me continuously using radio waves directly to ears
The trees are absorbing some of the power.
There were no trees in the Fresnel zone of the antenna
@@HamRadioDX I suggest an experiment. From what I saw, there aren't wide horizontal sidelobes with that antenna? Maybe I am wrong, but I suggest an experiment.
@@DumbledoreMcCracken what experiment?
@@HamRadioDX move the antenna forward, so that the inductive trees are out of the sidelobes. And the humans too.
I know this experiment is dubious, because of the rapidly changing ducting conditions.
I assume vertical polarization. Maybe you said horizontal?
My advice would be "don't choose a path with a tree in it"
Tree's aren't an issue up to 1.2 GHz. At 2.4 GHz we were beaming through a gap in the trees
You guys really need GPS disciplined oscillators or some other stable references when using these frequencies.
We did have GPSDO’s just out of shot. BG7TBL GPS
"Set reminder" function not working!? Thank UA-cam!
That's weird. UA-cam has been having some glitches the past few days
@@HamRadioDX Response to comments isn't working, I had too manually search for you're comment.
I'm think about cancelling my UA-cam Premium subscription...This is pathetic UA-cam..
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
Do you know how they are beaming it on me
2.4 GHz radio signal which the brain is able to convert it to voice