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Ever wondered what ham radio operators do when they go portable? Well one of the things is brave the elements. That's exactly what we did when we went out for the annual VHF/UHF "summer" Field Day weekend held on January 16th & 17th 2021. The things we do for ham radio... 🤷♂️🤷♂️
The DX Commander is an All Band Vertical HF Antenna that covers 9 bands from 80m through to 6m. It is an economical and efficient way of getting on every HF band easily with a nice compact vertical antenna.
The antenna is basically a fan dipole, but rather than horizontal, it is vertical quarter wave elements in parallel on a common driven element base with short ground radials. Of particular interest in this design is the fold over on the 40m element, which acts as a 5/8th on 15m.
The antenna is a breeze to put together and in this video I show my build and review from Callum M0MCX - the DX Commander.
When new hams start out in the hobby, it's important that they receive guidance and assistance along the way, after all we all had to start somewhere!
In today's live stream we have some members of the Ham Radio YouTubers bunch answering YOUR questions live! Come along and ask whatever you like in the chat, perhaps you're new to hobby and not sure where to start. I'll be joined by the following YouTubers, go ahead check out their channel and give them a sub!
Ham Radio 2.0 - https://www.youtube.com/user/kc5hwb
Temporarily Offline - https://www.youtube.com/user/temporarilyoffline
KK6USY Ham Radio Adventures - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbTOS3UcdsFXn_N7RjQGdHA
Red Summit RF - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHriEQX4EK2b0QS7EgSvjmg
Goodgame Ham Radio & Outdoors - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeo_lBRLoYmIxjOGtOr0nKw
K6ARK Portable Radio - https://www.youtube.com/user/Vector511c
SevenFortyOne - https://www.youtube.com/user/sevenforty1
Matt AE4MQ - https://www.qrz.com/db/AE4MQ
Do you want to know what DMR is? Or how does propagation work? What radio should you buy? How do I get my first Ham Radio License? What kind of antennas do you need? Anything related to ham radio, come along and we'll do our best to assist and help you further in the hobby. We are the modern day elmers - the YouTubers bunch!
Join us for a portable adventure trying to send our 2.4 GHz (13cm) ham radio signal from Tasmania, Australia (VK7) to New Zealand (ZL).
On December 13th 2020, Hayden VK7HH and Richard VK7ZBX travelled out portable to try and work Nick ZL1IU at the top end of New Zealand. The Hepburn tropospheric data had good to very good predictions of a duct to carry VHF and above signals across the Tasman Sea.
The ultimate goal was to try and work the 2.4 GHz band, a band that had not achieved a contact over such a great distance before. Were we successful?
More on Tropospheric ducting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation
Hepburn Duct forecast:
https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html
This is a really simple and easy to construct antenna that will get you on the air on the six meter band using only RG-58 coax!
I needed a quick and simple antenna for my WSPR beacon over the summer season. Enter the end fed half wave length coaxial dipole or aka flowerpot antenna!
The design details are available at VK2ZOI's website below: