Ham Radios, Police Scanners & Model Trains - My Dad Is A Mad Scientist & The American Ham Radio King
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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My dad recommends the BaoFeng and he knows radios, so you should grab one because these are cheap for beginners. It works great as a police scanner. I am having lots of fun with it!
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As a Ham Radio operator happy to see people pumped up about Amateur Radio!
Thanks for your comment. I felt so dumb when my dad was explaining this stuff to me. I had no idea what was going on.
Sadly he is 79 and I wish I knew how to run that contraption he has in his garage. I fear that one day it will end up all in the garbage if he is no longer here. I want to keep his passion of these old radios alive. I would love to know what the heck he was talking about, lol.
@@FuturesPast1 He does have a really nice complicated set up, but I think if you spent enough time trying to figure it out with him, you would probably get the gist of it.
This weekend is actually the ARRL field day event. It’s the biggest ham radio event in the USA. I’m sure your father is participating in the event or will have his radio on. Go check it out with him and learn some more!
When a daughter can geek out on Dad's radio set up, that is awesome!
Thank you! More geek out radio videos coming up soon.
Your father is so Sweet!! Very intelligent man, I see where you get your love from in collecting things from the Past! His Trains are EPIC! You should feature him on your channel every so often. This was a Great Video, thanks for sharing him with us. 🇮🇹🥸🎙️🎚️🎫🎤🎧📟📡🔊☢️🆒🇺🇸
Awww thanks! He loves tinkering and taking old radios apart and improving them. One of my favorite smells is the smell of burning solder. When I was a child I used to watch him taking the guts out his radios and soldering wires and tinkering. It used to lull me to sleep, lol.
Hopefully he will be more willing to show up on camera soon. He is probably much shyer than me which is really shy 🤣
Hey you are great with the videos, just keep doing you! So happy to see you getting outside too.
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Hey you are great with the videos, just keep doing you! So happy to see you getting outside too.
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You have the coolest dad! Make sure to learn from him. Emergency contact is everything! You have THE MAN rite there!
Thank you for your great comment and kind words. He is going to teach me all he knows the next time I see him. We will be making more videos next week.
I asked him to teach me how to operate these radios and share his set up, tips and techniques with everyone in more videos we will make soon.
I do not think I am as smart him to understand all this, but will be doing my best to learn. I will need to get an FCC license so I have a lot to learn and better pass that test, lol.
He is very surprised that so many people are commenting. He thought nobody liked HAM radios anymore. The comments from all you kind people is making him so happy!
Love it, I think it is great that you interviewed your father. Your Dad has quite the setup. Good for him that he is a ham radio operator and it looks like he really enjoys it. 73 KO4UWU Thank you for sharing.
What an amazing guy your Dad Is, smart and handsome ❤️
Thank you. He is 79 years old and is in way better physical shape than I. He is still 16 years old at heart, lol.
Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome. Thanks for adding some extra info.
Thanks once again for your great comments 💖
Great Video.. As A Ham Your Dad Would Be Thrilled If You Got Your License!!! GO FOR IT YOU GOT THIS!!!
Thanks. Please stay tuned for more videos of his radios and thanks for watching. I don't think I am smart enough for this sort of thing. However, he is going to try to help me get my license. I am going to shoot some documentaries of his radios and set ups. We will be doing more videos soon of him showing everything. He said he has a set up that nobody in the world has except for him and he is going to demonstrate it to me on camera in a month or so. I am excited to see what he is going to reveal to us all.
Wow. I love that you made this video of your dad and his interests. I am ham radio operator and have trains too. This is so cool!
More videos are coming soon. I am going to make a more thorough video next week starring my dad and his set up and how he creates and uses them. Will do more train videos shortly as well. Please subscribe if you can and hit the bell notification and hit all to get notifications. I appreciate your comment. 73!
In a world of “Users”, most people don’t know the intricate ins and outs of what makes things work. Your father is one of those people who not only understands what something does, but why and how it does it. Younger people need to look to the older crowd and pay attention, and learn from them. Get into amateur radio, learn about electronics and mechanics.
Tell your father a viewer said 73, and thank you for this video.
That was a great comment! My dad told me nobody cares about this stuff anymore. He sounded sad when he said that. Your comment will brighten his day!! I used to see post cards from all over the world he got that said 73 on it. I will mention that to him 💖🤗
Outstanding 🏆
Thank you so much!! 🤗
Awesome video
Thanks you. I will be making more videos soon with him.
The repeater (UHF) is something hams use for extending range of communication. The HF frequencies refract (bounce, bend, skip) off the ionosphere ( a charged layer high in the sky) hence dad talking to staitons overseas on 14Mhz (20m band). Now 430 Mhz does NOT bounce off the ionosphere it passes thru it (hence it being used for satellite coms) it only travels on earth "line of sight" eg to the horizon, but it is good because the antenna required is small (remember what you learnt in lesson 1 - higher freq is a shorter wavelength). So to extend range for radios like your Baefeng we put an antenna up high (to extend how far radios can "hear/see" it and this recieves a signal and retransmits it to extend range. Dad uses the UHF 430 Mhz (70cm band) repeater over the short distance from the house to garage, to talk to and control his set up in the garage and gain access to the Yaesu HF (High frequency) "rig" to chat overseas!! 73 de VK2AOE in Australia.
Great comment! My old man will be back soon on video. We are going to make a video giving more info on the radios and how they work. I love my Aussie viewers!!! You all are the best!
You gotta hook your dad up with Rod Stewart and Pete Waterman (who infamously love model trains) XD
Your dad is an interesting and talented guy.
Hail to the tinkerers!
Thank you. Yes, hail to the tinkerers because they shall inherit the earth one day, lol 😂👍
The class of license indicates "expertise" and privileges afforded to hams. The higher the class the more frequencies you can operate on and the higher power you are allowed (hence your dad running 1 kilowatt - 1000 watts from his remote setup). QTH is the Q code a letter series of codes to abbreviate Morse transmissions (but now also used by hams for voice and general chit chat which hams call rag chewing). QRS means send morse slower....QRT mean STOP sending (there are 100's of them). Duplex is 2 way send receive for a radio link. FULL duplex means you can send and receive like a telephone BOTH ways at the same time (usually means a separate transmitter and receiver on different frequencies to allow the 2 way simultaneous exchange). The 160m band is 1.8MHz ....160m is the wavelength (the length of 1 cycle of the radio wave). The lower the frequency the LONGER the antenna hence your dad having such (dare I say) large erections!! A magnetic loop (mag loop) allows a smaller antenna for lower frequencies (such as the aforementioned 160m band - also called "top band" by hams). Yes you Dad = cool. 😎
Thank you for being so informative and explaining this to others that may not know. Your knowledge is a treasure 💖
I really enjoyed the video. I wish I had as much time as he does. I would love to have a ham shack like this!
73 KC3UXY
Love that you called it a ham shack. That is what he calls it too, lol. More of him and his radios and trains will be coming soon. I am going to have him show us everything in the next video.
A fellow LIMARC member!
Amateur Radio for the win
73
DE KD2HJP
On Field Day weekend, no less
My dad has contacted you via email. You both live very close to each other. I hope you two make friends.
@@FuturesPast1 E mail sent
@@KD2HJP That is so awesome!! Thanks. He is fun to hang out with. I hope you guys can form a friendship.
It is fine to listen / scan VHF/UHF , which is what you were doing at the end of the video. You just can't press the TALK button without being a licensed amateur radio operator like your dad and you can only Talk on authorized frequencies for amateur radio operators.
You are correct. My dad cleared this up with me as well. Thanks for your comment. I wouldn't want to give out the wrong info.
Your dad reminds me of Albert einstein
Thanks. Your comment had me rolling. I have no idea what the hell is going on in this video, lol 🤣😂
Originally from Long Island, I totally miss the accents. I too am into Model Railroading as well and model the east coast. Your Dad needs some Long Island Railroad Locomotives! Thanks for the tour~ I did subscribe as well.
Hi Robert. My accent original comes from the Queens/Brooklyn border where I grew up. The old school NY accent is fading quickly sadly. I miss it too.
I think my dad does have the LIRR trains. He has so many trains I can't count. We will be making a video next week on his radios and we will show the trains too again. I will look for his LIRR trains to show and have him talk more in depth about the trains and how he built the set up.
I remember years ago some of his trains even had little cameras built into them so you can see them going through the tunnels under his stairs on a monitor, lol. I don't know if he disabled that feature, but if he didn't we will show it.
Thanks so much for subbing to my channel. I am so thankful 🤗💖
@@FuturesPast1 Thank you!
Yes....your dad has Hamitis alas there is no cure it is a lifelong affliction. I too have this condition and suffer daily from radio addiction and/or withdrawal!!! de VK2AOE
Lol, I love that word. Hamitis. He has had this affliction since the 1960s. There is no known cure for it 😂👍
cool, I'm ag6mh i do HO (1:87) and S (1:64)
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