You’ve seen the Mini Pixie in the Altoids Smalls tin (https://youtu.be/35TRM-uGWsY), but this prototype Micro Pixie (aka "Choking Hazard") that I built brings tiny to a whole new level. What better way to put it to the test than to attempt a SOTA activation with it?
So today, we take this ridiculous little thing out to a never-before activated SOTA summit to see what it can really do. Is 2.7 g of radio and 850mW of output power enough to get the job done? Watch and see.
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I keep hearing "the bands are dead". Well in this live stream, let’s see how much I can hear! I have my radio running on the 40 meter (7 MHz) band running FT8.
As you can see, Gridtracker is running with a realtime map including the RX calls, RX DXCC and realtime receiving data. How many stations will I hear?
I will be running this from Monday 28th Dec 12:00 UTC through to around 22:00 UTC which is 11pm to around 9am local (all night).
See if I hear you! How far away from my station are you when I decoded you? Let me know in the live chat and comments!
Antenna is a simple EFHW antenna.
Explaining End Fed Half Wave Antennas
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Today I get to sit down with David Minster, NA2AA, the new CEO of the ARRL. He talks about his vision for the future of the ARRL itself and also for Ham Radio. I’m excited about this interview and the things that David says and I look forward to getting him back on the show very soon for more interviews.
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What do you think? Is this old Drake TR7 (PS7 Power Supply and MN7 Matching Network) Ham Radio work the trouble? Let’s find out if this 40 year old radio still works. I’ll also give you some backstory about how I cam to like old Drake Radios.
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00:00 Hello!
00:29 The Backstory – Why I wanted a Drake TR7
03:30 How I got the Drake TR7
06:39 Overview of the equipment
08:25 The Drake PS7 Power supply
09:07 The Drake TR7 Transceiver
10:47 The Kenwood SP-520
11:25 The Kenwood AT-200 Tuner
12:03 The Drake MN7 Tuner
12:44 The rear panels
15:43 The TR7 Receive Test
17:01 Testing the filters
18:50 Testing the passband tuning
20:00 Testing the RIT
20:50 Receiving CW
22:01 receiving SSB on 20 meters
23:09 Transmit Tests
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28:07 Final Thoughts on the Drake
29:54 Outtakes/Bloopers!
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This video expands on a question from Steve, KI0KY, about how reactance and the intrinsic capacitance and inductance relate.
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