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[@HamRadioDX]

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[@patrickbuick5459]

I got South Africa from the east coast of Canada on a vertical on 40m with 100W a few days ago. 12,129km

[@DonauweIIe]

What sort of vertical, how long ?

[@patrickbuick5459]

@@DonauweIIe For this, I used my DX Commander 12.4m multiwire vertical. (40.7ft) It is ground positioned with radials laid on the ground. Moncton is about 50km away from the Bay of Fundy or the Northumberland Strait, both of which are Atlantic seawater. So close, but not on the water per se.

[@DonauweIIe]

@@patrickbuick5459 is that your QTH, Moncton ? i wonder how well 25meter vertical copperwire would receive compared to that dxcomander. I have a long wire like that on a tall tree here, that wire is not exactly vertical but hears so much already. i think a very long vertical antenna like 30meter high or more would be best for reception. how well did you hear that person from 12129km away, strong and easily intelligible or was it a weak signal that he had to repeat himself ? what R/S reporr did you give to that DX ?

[@patrickbuick5459]

@Ghostwriters in the Sky They do say, the more wire up, the better. I use this because the trees aren't a lot taller, at least branches that will properly support something. Plus, this is resonant on most bands, so only minimal tuning used. Having said that, it also picks up a lot of noise compared to my 130 or so foot horkzontal L shaped efhw at 16 feet on lower bands (80, 40). This was a 57 received, 59 sent. It was pretty clear for the distance. Propagation has been odd though. A couple of months ago, I had a FM QSO with England on 10m like he was in town.

[@pauldean8638]

I had a mate who took up radio as kid , he had postcards from truckers as far as Canada and around the world ( we live in GB ) . At age 11 he was prosecuted by the bbc and told he wasn’t allowed a radio set again because when he turned his set on he wiped out a towns tv signal ha ha ha .

[@eziomonico7173]

Yes the linear amplifier is the cause tvi on years 1980,the day television is digital with frequency narrow and audio different,73 da short wawe listener italy zero 3897 Mike India(cb fox red Milan)

[@klarisakivlin9433]

Hahaha

[@steveg8337]

My mom talked all over the world, she was just 3 spots shy of every country state etc. She also talked to the space shuttle on 2 meters. This was all from ne montana.

[@iamgriff]

That’s pretty cool! I have baofeng with a ABBREE. 3ft antenna. I am still trying to listen in on the ISS when it passes over Michigan

[@RayRayfrfr]

@@iamgriffWhat part of Michigan are you from

[@iamgriff]

@@RayRayfrfr the Michigan part of Michigan

[@heatshield]

Steve, I’ve got my first date with the ISS in eight hours. Lovely to hear your story.

[@iamgriff]

@@heatshield Will you provide some feedback as to whether you were successful or not? Thanks!

[@jameslmorehead]

I hit Florida from Houston on my CB on 2W. Nothing to brag about, but made my day.

[@HamRadioDX]

Awesome!

[@spaceflight1019]

Welcome to the magic of DX! 50 years ago you could hear some amazing things in and around the CB band, and even now you can hear some really interesting stuff between 26 and 29 MHz. Good hunting!

[@enriqueacevedo7651]

Goes to show you that when cellphones and internet aren't working because of a disaster ham radio works. Ham radio saves lives. Get yourself a technician, general or Extra license.

[@ChahtaAnumpa]

You don’t need a fucking license when the world ends lol what a dumb comment. If the infrastructure of our country “cell service AND internet service” both are gone the society is falling. A Ham radio will be my last concern. Been using my great grandpas ham radio setup for 8 years now with zero license nor will I ever get one cause fuck your invasion of my privacy “4th amendment”

[@brittanycunningham787]

It shouldn't require a license

[@galeparker1067]

@@brittanycunningham787license required to broadcast in Canada

[@Crimson.S.57]

@@brittanycunningham787 yah then any idiot can hop on and block up frequencies, making it useless.

[@dano9411]

​@@brittanycunningham787 well that's ignorant

[@HamRadio2]

Hey look at that. Great contact!

[@lyledal]

That's pretty darned far!

[@bighairyfeet]

Pretty standard with skip

[@DonauweIIe]

​@@bighairyfeet how often is there propagation that far, not very often, its something special.

[@D-Mny]

When I was a kid my dad used to have CB in his truck (1980s) and we used to occasionally hear Australians. I asked if we could talk to them he said probably not. The effect was called skip and it was the signal bouncing off the atmosphere 🤷‍♂️

[@HamRadioDX]

Yep that's exactly what it is! You can still talk to Aussies today!

[@BryanTorok]

Absolutely wonderful. I have to get my antenna up this spring.

[@HamRadioDX]

You should!

[@xfireFXMotionDesign]

Nice QSO with the Hexbeam. We use the Hexbeam for our Fieldday Activities and it works really great. 73 from northern Germany!

[@K6ARK]

Pretty dang far with that shirt on

[@HamRadioDX]

True that!

[@redalrt4]

You can work the world on 100w, good propagation and piece of wire.

[@DonauweIIe]

Hang a 25meter long copperwire on a tall tree or somewhere high, that hears DX very well.

[@spaceflight1019]

I spent most of last fall and winter working the world on a castoff Siltronix 1011D and a roof rescue Antenna Specialist Super Magnum halfwave vertical.

[@agnusdei8442]

That was a good call mate 🤘

[@richardchambers256]

Back in 1978 then again in 1989 I talked with Australia quite a bit on 10 meters with 10 watts. Both times on a moble. (From California)10 meters opens up during the 11 year SS cycle.

[@stefansulik3460]

from slovakia to finland, radio 5 signal 7 4w on CB... Nice DX

[@DonauweIIe]

QSO within 3000Km distance below 30MHz is not DX.

[@ronalddaub5008]

This summer still yet I get California Texas Canada Southern Illinois on sideband and 100 w or 40m

[@moozoowizard]

I've done long path (over the south pole) ssb with 20w and a quarter wave vertical at my end on 20m. Perth Australia to ladys island SC USA (18469km) VK6MIK

[@djrichylaurence8991]

Me and my mates could reach Australia from the UK on a Cobra side band rig. Mind you we had a massive quarter wave twig on a scaffold pole in the garden! Sorry if we wiped your TV out lol.

[@KydenBufect]

Marlon Brando was a ham radio operator. Talked to people around the world but never revealed his identity

[@DonauweIIe]

What was his callsign in amateurradio ?

[@dapwn3ritswatido]

@@DonauweIIe GDFTH3R

[@SuperBuggerboo]

😂

[@johnathanasiou9284]

Love it so much, see this the real power & magic of ham radio ❤️

[@Triple_3_In_The_Ozarks]

Been doing it for years. DX is always a great time.

[@codyaimes4354]

Sooo, I'm not a radio operator like you guys but I like this topic. Could it be possible to send a signal out and propagate around the earth and you pick it up at the starting point? I expect it would be under the right weather conditions.

[@HamRadioDX]

Hi Cody, This can happen sometimes. Under the right conditions your signal can take two paths, one short and the other long. This can lead to you hearing your own signal slightly out of phase/a slight echo. As you say, it needs to have the right ionospheric conditions.

[@michaelt.9372]

Farthest I’ve hit from Arizona is NZ on 100w

[@HamRadioDX]

Nice man!

[@evanbetter]

I beg you (native) english speaking guys to speak slower and distinguishing the single sillables more. It would make life easier for others. For instance I didn‘t understand what Jason just said, and not because of qsb or qrm, he was just chewing it too fast for me. (no hard feelings, Jason, it‘s just an example of many). speak slow and clear and simple, it helps us others. btw: thanks for the video! 👍🏻

[@ObamaoZedong]

Part of the problem was he was speaking about his town called Quartzsite Arizona. Those words would be difficult to pick up unless you knew about that town, even for a native english speaker.

[@dougearnest7590]

There are auctioneers who wish they could talk as fast as a Ham radio operator giving his call sign.

[@ElectronicsCuriosities]

Wow😍is that spider cod antenna

[@paulsengupta971]

Hexbeam?

[@spaceflight1019]

The answer is "it depends". I've worked DX on low-watt handhelds and listened to seven years of dead bands. Make the most out of the current solar cycle, get on whenever and wherever you are.

[@W6IWN_Radio]

Very nice work 👍👍 cool shirt!

[@HamRadioDX]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Only_Hams]

How about the moon? You can bounce a signal there and back, that's an average distance of 477,710 miles! Ham radio is cool AF. 73

[@HamRadioDX]

Plenty of moonbounce videos on my channel!

[@guillegilcriado6879]

This is amazing!!

[@subbaaja100]

Once participating in a RTTY contest I got Sweden with our antenna directed south-southeast. 40 000km

[@kiddy1992]

40K km is the circumference of the earth, you'd hear yourself.

[@mariozuvic3592]

Try EME for distance test !!!

[@Weightlossjourney24]

Hex Beam I got one! Also a A3s can’t beat the A3s

[@B.Murphy]

I'm on 10m, always. Need to listen around a bit more.

[@digitaldreamer5481]

Wow Hayden! Yes, that was a great QSO with Jason KC5HWB! This is why they call our hobby “Experimental”! 😂❤😂

[@KH6ML]

Aloha and right on! Nice qso

[@markkennard861]

10s been on fire lately... let's see you do it on 6...

[@HamRadioDX]

Working on it

[@Friedrich13127]

Moxon multiband antenna.

[@edkemp6287]

Every time I do a qso with q 100 that's a 75000 kilometer round trip

[@HamRadioDX]

Would be cool to have a geostationary satellite have a footprint here!

[@edkemp6287]

@@HamRadioDX it feels good over here man

[@le9038]

oh... what a coincidence.

[@AIexanderHartdegen]

I can talk to my neighbourg upstair just with farting.

[@AIexanderHartdegen]

@The Vinyl Disguise hooo yes.

[@dazednconfused31337]

Can't hear you, getting a lot of QRF wafting over 💨

[@devilsatan2973]

Your point?

[@Ira06002]

Love the IC705!

[@vetham100]

Great video, we need more of these and fewer trashy videos!

[@mikekorman666]

What radio is that? I'd like to get one with that style of display

[@HamRadioDX]

Icom IC-7300

[@ahoward2kable]

Was that the 705 or the 7300?

[@HamRadioDX]

That was the IC-7300

[@drewby4563]

Anything's possible with the right equipment and the time of day

[@kazuhiko_orita_tokyo]

skillfuly cool QSO!

[@Juno_Beach]

WB7 OCV portable 2

[@iamgriff]

What happens if I broadcast Rick Astley’s “never gonna give you up” for several hours straight internationally from America to Australia in a effort to troll them?

[@rickyjones8421]

From what ive read You need help from a repeater .In a grid down situation ,how far can HAM transmit on 12 volt?

[@HamRadioDX]

On HF, worldwide under the right conditions. Country wide regularly

[@HamRadioDX]

With no repeaters required

[@rickyjones8421]

Is that on 12volt power ?

[@devilsatan2973]

@@rickyjones8421 12 volts just runs the radio. Output is something different.

[@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024]

I think the current ham record is venus bounce

[@MisterTwister55]

Wow for a minute I thought there was an American Luke Bryan lookalike too then I realized it was you lol

[@HamRadioDX]

Yeah just me, although I like to think of it as I have a lookalike. Imagine if Luke Bryan was a ham.

[@africantwin173]

Dark weather and wearing sunglasses

[@HamRadioDX]

Prescription.... what's the problem

[@super-8]

wow. is some times mystical

[@indiana146]

Well done

[@guillegilcriado6879]

What's the power you're using?

[@dylanosmond2240]

Egyptians , Tesla knew this

[@thomasmaughan4798]

It would take about four years for Ham Radio to reach Alpha Centauri, a distance of 4 light-years.

[@tonybrown5425]

A better question would be… How far would you like to go?

[@californiacitizenswatch]

all around the whole world

[@johnwest7993]

It can reach the moon and bounce back to Earth.

[@Loren-yu8ml]

Entonces,si la tierra es redonda,como tienes señal desde Australia???

[@deltabravo7881]

I like'it, hello from Morocco 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

[@SteelWolf13]

Literally around the globe. Off the moon and back too.

[@bbroken1]

Wilde antenna for sure

[@moihchemimohachemi5357]

Very interesting

[@jayserpunzal8021]

Wthat you call that antenna ?

[@HamRadioDX]

Hexbeam

[@TheSmokinApe]

Nice 👍

[@HamRadioDX]

Thanks Ape

[@teresaanderson3581]

With a sport cat bear cat scanner I can pick up some one talking to someone in Alabama

[@edkemp6287]

Lol I thought you were going to do Venus bounce or something

[@w3smm]

We were working a ton of 10m repeaters the other day. I felt like I was 11 years old again 🤣

[@HamRadioDX]

I love 10m repeaters. Something about FM on that band which is so cool

[@colemair5367]

That's insane They can reach Australia with a that set up.

[@indridcold8433]

5,1 seems a bit pessimistic. I would say 5,4. It may even be a 5,5. But I am not an amateur radio operator. I have zero contacts, save maybe the occasional CB sideband, or FRS.

[@HamRadioDX]

I gave the report based on the S meter on the radio, which was a 1. Readability was 5.

[@anarchytelevision8445]

I talk across the pond quite often 11m, frequency 27.385 lower side band

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

Would that be with the assigned 12w pep?

[@anarchytelevision8445]

@@InsideOfMyOwnMind who owns the airwaves?

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

@@anarchytelevision8445 In the US that would be "The People", which constitutionally would mean the government if you believe in such things. In any case they are stewarded by said government with the purpose of keeping them viable. Users of the airwaves have widely varied opinions about the efficacy or even the constitutionality of how the FCC goes about it. My only experiences with it outside of RX are in the 11 and 3 meter bands. When you start studying a crowded space like 3 meters for example you quickly understand the purpose of enforced standards and practices. Ever been on a airplane? If so you should appreciate that we're not to just randomly key up anywhere and anyway we might want.

[@anarchytelevision8445]

@@InsideOfMyOwnMind you said it right the first time, it's a belief, it's like a religion, but belief is the enemy of knowing, belief is the killer of thought, if you believe there's no need to think or question, this thing calling itself the government which is a corporation has only claimed this stewardship, they have no legitimate authority, they only have this perceived authority because you believe it so, time to awaken from the slumber in The matrix and embraced true freedom of true anarchy. Also there is nothing in the Constitution that states the FCC is allowed.

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

@@anarchytelevision8445 True anarchy is not for the faint of heart or for anyone who is not thoroughly versed in law wherever it may pertain to them. So what happens to everyone else?

[@ElectronicsCuriosities]

Over the continent 😅

[@evgenipresman8143]

Nice, go qso on 40m ssd.

[@Ray9mm]

I really need help leaning how to use mine lol

[@N54God666]

You can talk around the world with 5w and a Yagi.

[@fridayjanestrella4951]

Great contact. I miss 10 meters.

[@HamRadioDX]

The best!

[@philembry6152]

I want a ham radio

[@HamRadioDX]

get one!

[@devilsatan2973]

Study for a license, then get on air!

[@kevinbermingham6277]

Badass

[@onnellinen_ankka]

you have ham radio i have cheese radio heihaeh

[@danieltaon7998]

how much for communication subscription when whole world at wat?

[@john_jacob_jingleheimerschmidt]

About 2k upfront and free after that

[@danieltaon7998]

@@john_jacob_jingleheimerschmidt thats incredible, could you actually establish any data connection for this same locations?

[@devilsatan2973]

There is no subscription required! Just test, get a license, and go for it! Cost depends on what you want to do and how much you want to spend.

[@hymlog]

...AMAZING! ....SCHOOL FAILURES!

[@doddybtam3638]

Roger Roger 😊

[@BatColonyEvictor]

Very cool 😎

[@jamielee8991]

I need to get more into 10m

[@vidaensuriname1509]

73 from Suriname PZ2YT

[@martinj9251]

Would it not be eaier to just call on your phone

[@HamRadioDX]

Where’s the fun in that?

[@martinj9251]

@@HamRadioDX Seriously

[@charlessalard4636]

😂repeaters like cell phones.what if repeaters go down..skip????

[@devilsatan2973]

These guys aren't using repeaters! But yes, if power goes down it becomes simplex. There are some repeaters that have battery backups, solar, ECT.

[@KQ4LNZ]

Sweet I need a good mobile setup

[@TeamYankee2]

lol 1.5Kw will get you anywhere...

[@Juno_Beach]

WB7OCV/2

[@KC1OIH]

Hi Hayden

[@ebersalcido8810]

Flat earth proof

[@UneducatedEngineer444]

Lol. How do you explain contacting the space station then or listening to weather sattelites

[@user-gd6sw3pg6y]

UW1VA 👍

[@OldSal-d8h]

I worked North Korea. 73

[@HamRadioDX]

That's a rare one

[@tangoalpha8381]

🏆🏆🏆🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 73!!!

[@Serge_eu3la]

PWR?

[@HamRadioDX]

100W

[@mauriceupton1474]

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