That is a good find.

Hmmm now to choose where I will get my endfed from

I got a second POTA33 ;)

Good Japanese! Hope to catch you there someday!

Wow the BT headset noise cancelling got rid of everything, sounds like I'm narrating over a video.

Glad I was able to catch this on team rewatch

Hi

Sorry sent to mechanics advice. Respect

You are ausome i followed your instructions and you saved me at least 700 dollars. Follow for ever sir. Thanks. James

I thought about trying a gutter antenna because I read so many good results. So I tried connecting the center lead of the coaxial cable to the HF radio and the shield to either nothing or ground. I received no signals at all. I received lots of signals with a 20 meter resonant dipole that was only 4 feet above the ground, that was laying on top of a hedge. I’m assuming that I should be able to receive some signals without the antenna matching device. I’m guessing that my rain gutters are grounded somewhere. I didn’t want to buy the antenna matching part if the gutter was grounded. Another idea that I thought about trying, but didn’t try is running a wire for the antenna parallel to the rain gutters, parallel to the rain gutters, laying on the shingles, periodically glued or attached to the shingles. But I didn’t try that idea yet. So far, the non-resonant offset flagpole antenna, without radials, with a remote antenna tuner, works good enough. But it would be nice to have a second stealth antenna.

I tried connecting my HF radio coaxial cable center directly to my metal downspout without a matching device. I received nothing. I suspect that my gutters are grounded. Could you try bypassing the matching device? Could you determine the difference on receiving with and without the match? Tfe FT8 mode doesn’t take much of an antenna. I could easily get a lot of contacts with FT8 and a resonant 20 meter dipole at only 4 feet above the ground. But the flagpole antenna works much better.

So pretty much a UV82??

The factory tuning is the best, i wouldnt tune it any other way, goodjob making clarity on the new update ☺️

Paul got 30 contacts, and I ended up with 11 on my first POTA.

I wouldn't really want more than 10 watts in a handheld anyway. Not great to have that kind of power next to your head.

#HAMBROS

If theres a crisis im finna eat my pet and the pet food

Perfect if you need a fish weight for fishing. Too big for portable or hiking up a summit. Thanks for the video

Paul, at 2:55 we see the spike for the 70cm band, and while the display is much cleaner than in the previous video, we are still looking BELOW the fundamental and not the "harmonics" of the fundamental. At 3:33 when you test harmonics of the 2M band, we see the 1st harmonic that is nearly as strong as the fundamental and this is an obvious failure of the bandpass filter within the HT. Therefore it is not FCC compliant and could place the ham operator in a position of fines and loss of license. There are many YT videos that explain how to set up the TinySA for a harmonic measurement. Josh (NAZ), the Smokin' Ape, Hayden and the designer of the TinySA (Erik Kaashoek) all have excellent videos showing the correct procedure. 73 OM

97.307(e) states: For a transmitter having a mean power of 25 W or less, the mean power of any spurious emission supplied to the antenna transmission line must not exceed 25 µW and must be at least 40 dB below the mean power of the fundamental emission..." The 25 µW level is equivalent to 16.02 db. So, any harmonics should both A) not produce more than 16.02 db and be at least 40db below the fundamental. I've never used a NanoVNA and I'm watching this on my phone, but the harmonic at 3:15 appears to be well above that standard. Am I wrong about that? I can't see the db levels even with my old man glasses on.

Again a nice video Paul! 73

Looks like the version of pistar I mentioned to download worked. 🙂

DXE makes some nice stuff, I like that bracket! I bought the parts to chnge my 5BTV to a 6BTV but never installed them yet. Thanks for sharing.

We’ve a new model of CHA BALUN 1:1

Nice video. In addition, you need plenty of time for processing your licence (1-3 months). The busiest period to apply is close to Tokyo Ham Fair as everyone is trying to apply or renew; thanks to Ken Yamamoto - JA1CJP at JARL International Section for helping with this matter. De JK1TYB.

Great stuff Paul.

Would be helpful to do a step by step guide to how to register an account..... You bypassed that because you already registered, but not all of us have. It seems that you need to make an initial contact/email to finalize the registration process, or am I mistaken. If you do need to make that first email to finalize the registration process, how do we do that in Japan or maybe other country that may not have a lot of Winlink servers?

Do you have aluminum facial around your house under the gutters? Hard to guess if there is efficient electrical connection between the painted gutter and facial . Also there is adhesive at each gutter downspout bib.

What’s in your wallet 😂🦃

Great how to video.

Paul, late to the party but your audio is raspy and loud... I have to turn down my volume down so I can just hear the others to keep you from blasting me away. I have noticed this, though not as bad as this time, on other videos. Just trying to help....

Will this AMP boost the incoming signal entering the IC-705? My signals are very weak, hardly hearing anything on the 10m band

That’s a whole ass science experiment, the next time you open that you gonna see a whole ecosystem 💀

Paul! I had never seen this in action. Thanks for sharing that. See you out there. 73 de Bill

Paul, maybe you should have contacted Chameleon, sent them your neighborhood and your lot layout, and ask them what antenna would work, how it should be connected and where..... Might have saved you time. money and you would have a few more hairs on your head! LOL!

I also always wrap with plastic tape first, then wrap with self-amalgamating tape. Otherwise the amalgamating tap gets really sticky and makes a mess when trying to take the connector off. The plastic tape is easy to take off the connector. I would put a hook on that grey box and hang the blue color cable/connections on it to keep them off the ground...water and snow are not good covers for the connections.

I have a 2022 Toyota Tundra. Where did you get the engine bay mount?

Well that is not good! Take care and charge your batteries! LOL!

"little Allen for little screw", thanks papi

Can not see the chat comments can you give me Frank's and mike's channel links. I am a HOA ham.

@trevorbeck we missed your final comment. Hit us up in discord!

So it's protecting against too much voltage coming from the amp into the radio? Or am I getting that wrong? And why would voltage be going to the radio from the amp?

Put the 705 in the RTTY mode to test. Push PTT and stable readings can be seen.

Now your gonna make me go look at mine after the weather this week.

I use this cage on my ic705, protip is it fits in a plano (or harbor freight) 30cal ammo can. On the antenna adapter, they make one that is compatible for it.

These are great, it did take a couple coax/foot incidences to the pavement and not issue. Just make sure to also use appropriate power fused protection. or you end up with a smoky-705 like mine.

The product page actually says the RC-1 can not be used with ARK-705. Wish they had more products. I like some of these accessories. They have really interesting antennas too.

Cool case!

Hi Paul! I just posted pics of my 705 case on the Discord server. (Members pics) Cool looking frame. I also reviewed the manual you held up and approve of it... LOL!

Is that a hybrid? I'm on the fence and don't know if HF mobile would be a no go with hybrid Tundra.