Portable Ham Radio Antenna care package from N9SAB
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2024
- The Portable Ham Radio antenna is the keystone of a successful portable ham radio field day or excursion. The lightest and most efficient ham radio antennas available to the portable radio operator, are the dipole, off center fed dipole, and end fed half wave antennas. Tim N9SAB has sent over a care package containing some very interesting ultra-lightweight and ultra-efficient antennas for portable and fixed station use.
The package should include signal and multiband dipole antennas, end-fed half wave antennas, and man-portable backpacking antennas, all being lightweight, and extremely efficient. Any of these antennas would be at home on a SOTA summit, on a POTA activation, or a ham radio backpacking trip with one of the ultra-portable QRP radios available today.
Let's do an unboxing together, and see just what Tim sent over.
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Julian #oh8stn #hamradio #antenna
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So excited tearing into the plastic bags that you were oblivious to the writing on them, lol.
Those look nice, I like the consistency in each build. I’ve been looking at retiring my 20m speaker wire dipole. These look like they could fit the bill.
Anything antenna gets my attention these days. Especially dipoles.
More and more, I'm coming on board with lower weight while maintaining effectiveness. Switched to lithium, now seriously considering the ic 705 for weight and space sayings, and lowering power consumption and only needing one of my batteries.
Tim makes great antennas...
Great video Julian! A lot of people appreciate you. Thanks for sharing👍 Take care and 73.
Philip KF7JZ, Great video! I would like to see him sell the same package that he sent you as a kit, great options for antennas! Thanks and 73.
Brilliant set of antennas. In an emergency operation power and weight will be the most important factors for sustainable operating. Those antennas should be exactly what is needed in virtually any situation.
Boy Tim's a great guy wow incredible beautiful antennas waterproof I love them I really do love them ❤️❤️❤️
Too funny. He just shipped mine I just bought. I remembered you recommending him a long time ago.
Man you got REAL package. That's his entire product line
I love Tim’s antennas. They are so well made. I have a slew of his antennas to cover all the bands.
Tim does great work. My first antenna after getting my General (US) license seven years ago was the purchase of his 40m etc OCF. One end on the top of a fence, middle on a 20 ft (~6m) painter's pole, and the other end on a rain gutter. Worked great.
N9SAB antennas are the best of the best. Even had the pleasure of using one of his EFHW's downrange. Tim is a stand up guy. The dude even supports a non-profit for our future military leaders with a percentage of his ebay sales. 🇺🇸👍
I believe that N9SAB dual core OCF dipole should indeed be your signature man portable wire antenna! What a great care package! 73, Patrick KF4LMZ
I purchased three N9SAB dipoles last summer from Tim: the 30, 20, and 17 meter versions. They are definitely well made and easy to deploy for POTA ops. Last summer was my first year of POTA Activations here in southern-central British Columbia, Canada. I found that N9SAB's 30m dipole is all I needed for multiband activations with my KX3 in CW mode at 5-10 Watts with the KX3 built-in auto-tuner. I used it on 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10m cw bands. The KX3 tuned it perfectly on all bands with little to no trouble getting 1:1 SWR. I operated in very remote locations throughout south central BC and made contacts all over North America and a couple in Europe with just Tim's 30m dipole and the KX3. I used Tim's Nano Balun Choke at the dipole feed point and the dipole usually up about 30' with a telescopic mast. Depending on the surrounding trees, I deployed the ends as either flat dipole or inverted-V. I look forward to using these dipoles again this summer.
Got a N9SAB outside. It’s awesome.
Hey buddy I've been watching you for many years you and I are growing old gracefully you have such a great UA-cam channel you're very awesome thank you for sharing this product❤
Cool swag..I like the red bag as well.