Thanks a lot for sharing your experience. Nice to meet old timers here! Hope to meet you on air some day. I am QRV on 40/20/15/10m, though not on a regular schedule. I am yet to work a G land station, though I have worked DL, ON, EC, IU, SP, 5B, mostly on 10m when the band was very active. 73 de Jon, VU2JO.

Glad to hear directly from you S21MOB. Looking forward to working you on LEO satellites soon. I am also trying AO-91, PO-101, IO-86, SO-121 and SO-50. But often I am not able to get contacts on those satellites. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Many many thanks. Nice to know that you could copy S21MOB and he could also copy you. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thank you. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

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Good question! Circular polarized antenna is best for satellite (kzbin.info/www/bejne/monMmaGdeqeDhdk). Omnidirectional one is Eggbeater or its variant TPM, which does not need an antenna rotator. Cross Yagi is best, but needs a rotator (kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGWTnYd7l72ZkLc). Moxon Yagi is really meant for outdoor manual operation as it is very light weight. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Glad you enjoyed it! 73 de Jon, VU2JO

@@johnsonstechworld Absolutely Jon. Always nice to hear you!

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Thank you very much. I will look out for you on ARISS passes likely to have you in footprint. There is one at 9.36 am IST today, but you may be at work! Hope to work you on ARISS soon. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Much appreciated on behalf of those at ground zero.

Please do! There will be a preliminary trial on 7060 kHz at 6.30 am IST (UTC+5.30) today morning. 73 de Jon VU2JO.

Glad you like it! 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thank you. There will be a preliminary trial on 7060 kHz at 6.30 am IST (UTC+5.30) today morning. 73 de Jon VU2JO.

You are right one VU ham from North of the country has been able to have 10m contacts on CW recently. Yes, for my antenna system, 10m is not that good now! Nice to know that you are having regular contacts with a wire and 10 Watts. May I presume that it was out door operation? 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thanks a lot. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

There are sporadic reports of activity on 10m. But we may have to wait till the end of September for a full recovery. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

@@johnsonstechworld 73, KQ4SJM

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@@johnsonstechworld I guess my comment didn't go through. Pretty sure it said "KQ4SJM 73"

May be when the antenna impedance is quite different from that of the feed line. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thanks a lot for the suggestions. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for introducing open-sleeve Yagi. I am hearing that for the first time. Can you please post a bit more details and if possible, a video on your channel? 73 de Jon, VU2JO

So nice of you. I was quite happy to hear him loud and clear. Glad to know that you are from Central America, very near to TI2CC! 73 de Jon, VU2JO

@@johnsonstechworld Yeah, that was hard to hear with all the static, but sounded like maybe an American. The HAM operator I met about ten years ago was a Tico named Caesar, and sold fish from a truck up in the mountains between San Vito and the Panama Border area. And a like able person. I'm not a HAM, but was a Navy Radioman, Have a Son thats a HAM in Oregon, and I am working towards moving back to the US, and planning on getting into it. Had a friend pick up a used Kenwood a couple months back for me, but I dont know if it needs repair etc. and will be awhile before I can get there. I'm planning on living as an Overlander, and setting up mobile HAM, in whatever vehicle I get as a hobby in remote camping areas. Its been something I wanted to do for decades. I've been a short wave listener since I was a kid, but now my last reciever dead from humidity and momentary contact on/off switch. Those switches die on everything in the tropics, and no decent quality recievers available here. Hopefully get moved back to US soon, and get booted up... Nice hearing from you!

Hope you will get back US soon and come up on the air. 73

@@johnsonstechworld Thanks for the good wishes! cant hurt!

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Yes. That was the first major radio black out I faced after coming on air with FT-710 in January 2024. 73

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Certainly. Most of the time I have near S9 noise, except on 10m with S2-3 noise. But 10m is dead for me from the second half of May 2024. Some of my friends in rural areas still enjoy S2-3 or even lesser noise on 40m. 73 de, Jon, VU2JO

Stan is usually there around 5.30 pm IST. Even though his signal is not that strong here, I hear stations from Central and North India as well as Bangladesh stations calling him very well. On listening carefully we can hear him as well. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thank you very much for the suggestion. As I have only one radio, using a pre-amp will mean adding a switch to bypass it during TX. I am yet to familiarise myself with connecting PTT to another device and switch with relay etc. Anyway, it is there on my wish list. 73 de Jon VU2JO.

@@johnsonstechworld the preamp I’m using that I recommended is auto switching. All you would need is a short piece of coax and a 12 V DC power supply.

That is really interesting! Preamp bypasses itself in transmit mode when PTT is pressed, without need for any connection from the PTT circuit?

Thanks a lot for the pacifying words from an old timer! Though I started off 40 years back, came on 10m only this year. In my initial days I had only 40/80m homebrew and it was sunspot low time soon after I started. Learning 10m with my new FT-710 now. Waiting for summer doldrums to settle and winter anomaly (kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHWxcqigiJVqqKssi=dkW5sPt8T9Az1nqZ) to improve 10m. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Great job John! Hope you will have a nice time with it outdoors. 73

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May be when 10m wakes up in October or later during Winter Anomaly! 73

Thank you. There are some even in our region who use it along with a linear amplifier with very good signals on the air. 73 de Jon, VU2JO.

@@johnsonstechworld I mean, sure, it's great when you want to learn Verilog, and mess with SDR on the hardware level, but you can achieve the same with ESP32, which is waaaaay cheaper ;-) (but I'm not sure, if its able to transmit, It may not, or most likely can, but its pretty poor signal)

Thank you for the new information. May be those experimenting with Radioberry will be more interested. 73

Nice to know that you are also a fan of 10m. Hope it will wake up after September when they say that MUF will go above 28 MHz (kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHWxcqigiJVqqKs). 73 de Jon, VU2JO

That is a good piece of information. 27555 should be Citizen Band? 73 de Jon, VU2JO

@@johnsonstechworld yes sir! This was a year ago from South Spain on my portable World class Belka DX.kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4SlhISVgpeosJIsi=A2wUJa_BNmA5PkJB

I saw that video just now. Wonderful performance of a small radio with a telescopic antenna! 73

@@johnsonstechworld yes there is nothing like it, the weakest signal it can detect is -138db, the tuning ,selectivity, agc , sensitivity can not be faulted I have a Techsun 660 and a copy of the Malahite chinese radios, these are now not used, all this on a telescopic antenna, what my Icom pro hears on end fed 20m wire so does this beauty on the telescopic, it is like having your table top HF set in your pocket! There are glowing reviews on the net, its hand made by Alex in Belarus direct from him, others sell it at inflated price !UK price about £120, I ordered another 2 months ago latest model with MW, but Alex refunded my money as the customs at his end think it's some kind of coding or other device for the Russian war, he needs other paperwork now.Your audio on your video is superb by the way! Regards Mike g1zyx

Thanks for the nice compliment on my audio! 73

Hope to hear you on LEO satellites soon. I think I have not heard anyone from your state on LEO satellites. I have heard VU2TIW on HF a few times on 20m and 40m. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thanks a lot for a new explanation. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thank you. Glad to know that you are in Thailand now. May be we can contact on HF some day. Currently I have taken down my 40 to 10m EFHW for mounting my Moxon Yagi for LEO satellite operations. So I am not there on 20m. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

I was talking to another 10m enthusiast in this region over phone and he told me the same. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Exactly same observation here. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thanks a lot. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

You are quite lucky! May I presume that it was an SSB contact from the frequency you used? 73 de Jon, VU2JO

@@johnsonstechworld Yes John I was quit lucky, Yes SSB. Last time I got Japan was 1984. That was on a HR2510.

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I can't agree with you more. Same situtation here! I could work a lot of DX on CW with homebrew radio in late 1980s. Now with commercial SSB radio, I have not been able to work DX for the past one month. Noise level is quite high most of the time. 73 de Jon, VU2JO

"We" have done nothing. It's totally the Sun. Solarham has more.

Thank you. 73

Waiting for 10m to come back! I am unable to get any DX contacts now except for an occasional one on LEO FM satellites. 73 de Jon, VU2JO.

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May be 10m will open well by October! 73 de Jon, VU2JO

Thank you for the suggestions! Currently I do not have an antenna analyzer, though a nanoVNA has been on my wish list for quite some time. 73.

@@johnsonstechworld nano vna are great with plenty in such a small package and a great price. I had one sold it and was able to purchase a used MFJ-259.

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Thank you.