Category: DX Commander

Some of you guys dropped in and out watching this last weekend and enjoyed it.. There’s a storm approaching, aircraft landing, birds tweeting, squirrels raiding – and then rain from Sunday.

I am co-locating the guys for the 40-ft / 12m mast with the 4-Square on 40m. Some careful measuring and lots of muscle was required. QUAD: This is a multiband antenna that ideally needs independant feeders for each band and a rotator. I have a mast-head remote switcher for this. Similarly, I need control lines for the 4-Square. More details about the 4-Square antenna in a later video. Have fun. Enjoy your radio. Callum.

How many times do I have to fix this before I realise I need to replace the whole thing?

Spoiler: PL259 failure

Experimental stream watching the field, the sheep – and aircraft lights. Aircaft are landing at Birmingham International. There is a road half a mile away and you can hear occassional cars. Mostly a night stream and if you hang around, you will see the sun coming up at around 06:00 local time. There is audio.

My First CQ call at 100W in a long time! LOL

Checking out propagation. Just having a play.

Testing a repair I just completed..

Cruising ham radio. NOTE, I can’t go "ultra-low" latency at 1440 however, the latency SHOULD be less than about 20 seconds..

This will apply to almost any modern ham radio. We had some fun today "Wide banding" Tom’s TS-480. Mike M0MSN in charge with TWO soldering irons and some amazing magnifying glasses! Callum.

Tom’s fabulous 100W Mobile Installation sporting the Kenwood TS-480SAT and the Tarheel (80m to 10m) with hands-free automatic tuning. Tom also runs VHF / UHF on a separate head. This video is uncanny because Jason has JUST also launched his video on almost the same system!