Hamming From a Hotel While on the Road

I brought my FT-817 with me while on a business trip to ostensibly help a co-worker make his first CW contact and do some FT8. See the results and how I set up while traveling for work.

[@khoward3748]

Thanks for this one. Informative!

[@aa3konthego]

You are welcome!

[@mccoy79productions66]

Nice video!

[@aa3konthego]

Thank-you.

[@thuff3207]

I found your video and I am too an engineer that travels to LongIsland NY for business meetings. You have have a nice portable setup and I do not know any hotels that have windows that open there. I have a different radio that has a built in tuner but otherwise a similar setup. I will start looking for hotels with trees to throw an antenna out to operate. I agree Mag loops are great but hotels keep you from using them due to the shielding. Thank you for the video.

[@aa3konthego]

I plan on doing a review on my mini mag loop as it is the perfect size for travel. Unfortunately nothing but a few birdies in the hotel room. Several other YT hams report the same thing with inside the room antennas. Once I got a wire out the window, signals appeared.

[@lizzyfan1986]

I had no idea you had a YT channel...I'm now a sub
73
Fred
AA3R

[@BikingHikingRadio]

I got my wife one of the Evolve laptops and she likes hers a lot. Let me know when we are going to POTA together again. 73.

[@aa3konthego]

For $60 you can't go wrong. I took out the modem and added a 2nd solid state HD. Runs WSJT-X & DXLABSUITE. N1MM starts fine but I haven't put that through its paces yet.
Will talk to you later this week.

[@thequarantinecatholic]

Which paddles are those? They look cool!

[@aa3konthego]

A co-worker, genius mechanical engineer and relatively new ham made them. Helps to have a basement CNC machine. I gave him some idea mods to productize them. They are nice.

[@mayomayo7318]

FT8/4 is not a QSO , it's a contact....

[@aa3konthego]

Yeah, not much you can discuss during a FT4/8 exchange.