Cool video ! Best of luck with the contacts and hope to catch you on the air :) Alan

Balun = common mode choke .

Have you tried FT8cn yet with venus?

Very nice solar setup. I have that same Rich Solar 20amp charge controller (and others) Greetings from Jamaica.

So how does this antenna work ? Made any contacts ?

I have not heard good things about the 40M Hamsticks

THANKS!

My cart, 800lb rated Gorilla Yard Cart , 4 x 6 volt 260Ah AGM batteries in series/parallel, 40amp Epever MPPT solar controller/MT50 screen, Renogy 2000watt pure sine wave inverter/charger as UPS if needed, And 800 watts (8 x100watt solar panels). Florida panhandle resident..... oh and a dual fuel 4500 watt generator (collecting dust).

I love to have a copy of the blueprint of your build. I love the idea of it being on castors as well.

You don't sound like you are from Texas.

Nice job !

Bro, that`s just a cheap CB radio firestick... You should put that up in the air, not so low as possible to the ground

how about some performance data like SWR levels on your target bands?

Very nice build. I enjoy seeing home built units. You Texans caused me to build a solar generator on wheels after your last year's unexpected Polar Vortex deep freeze. I live in the PRK and we have had grid troubles and rolling blackouts since 2017. Mine unit is 7200 watt hours of home assembled EVE Lithium cells, 560AH, 3000/6000 watt Renogy pure sine inverter, 30 amp Renogy Rover MPPT, Aims 75 amp onboard charger in case the sun doesn't shine and the Honda eu 2000 generator has to come out. The fun part was that I got it temporarily running on the work bench and used it to power my Vulcan wire feed welder. The frame is made from square steel tubing and it sits on caster wheels. It weighs 130 pounds. The 30 amp MPPT wasn't enough for me so I piggy backed on another 40 amp Renogy Elite MPPT to blast amps back into the battery with 900 watts of panels. Lithium batteries can take insane amps with no harm. I use mine every day since June 2021. I like your angle iron frame.

The coil of coax makes a RF choke out of the outside shield of the coax. Simply adds some amount inductance and depending on what frequency you are using it presents an impedance to RF coming down the outside of the coax. No effect on what’s inside the coax. Short RG 8X coax does not have much loss, so that’s fine. The ground is pretty much useless. Disconnecting the coax is everything. Too many hams think a ground is necessary and solves all problems when most of the time it makes the situation worse or unsafe! IF using a ground rod it must be connected back to the main power ground rod for the house. Some antennas like end fed wires need either a ground or counterpoise to work very well. I try and avoid them in most cases. Center fed dipole is best all round antenna you can have. Several dipoles connected on one feedline is excellent. Two per feedline is very easy to manage..

My husband followed this recipe and it was delicious!

Think you would be amazed if you ditched the Coax, 50ft I think you said, far far to lossey, feed it with 450 ohm Ladder line, you guys call it window line, that will turn it into a Doublet, one of the best wire antennas ever made, thanks for sharing, 73 GI3HNM (has no money)

Hi! Is there a way to show your settings for the Radio on WSJT-X, or at least in the RIG part, what radio did you put there? Thank you, it will be really helpful if you answer. (Or any person here)

Get the mfj1979 whip you’ll get a full 20m radiator, you be shocked of the DX you get or how far you go out

More radials and a copper ground stake

Why haven’t you used a thin wire antenna from the roof over to the small tree and then to a corner of the fence? You could also do a loop antenna around the top of your fence. Both of these would outperform the ham stick by a long way!

How long are your radials?

Earth rod needs to be a minimum of 8ft in the ground.

What is the frequency of the pole?

Choke that's what it is

I'm terribly sorry! I understand english not too well, so can you please tell, how is this kind of antenna called, and for which diapozones it may be optimally used for?

I have a blue 5 gallon bucket from Lowe’s with 3’ of PVC concreted in. Inside of the pvc tube is a painters pole that I have attached a 20 meter dipole in an inverted Vee configuration. The ends of the dipole are attached with cord to fences in the yard. So far it has withstood 75 mph wind. But tell you what, that bucket is a bear to move.

Did you use the cables they sent you? I am having trouble with mine, not seeing anything in the waterfall

Very nice set up! Are you using two 100 watt solar panels or a single 150?.. what is the recharge time estimate at 75% drain?.. Can it run appliances while being recharged?..

Are you still liking the Venus transceiver?

Great system Scott!! Nice!!

Fantastic!... Tell us how it works out for you! Thanks!

I love this post. How is the phone side of things on 20m with that set up?

Good stuff, thank you!

Great video!

Dang it had to get the credit card out after watching this one.

Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍