THE Greatest Secret In Ham Radio Revealed!!!!
THE Greatest Secret In Ham Radio Revealed!!!!
This is what you have been waiting for…. The answer to “How do I make contacts? The bands are dead”….
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An End Fed antenna connected to your transceiver via a 16:1 or 49:1 UNUN should get you what you want.
Good tips.. Also, If the ic-7300 had a triple band-stack register, you would be able to jump back and forth between 50.125, 50.095, 50.125 + -…. Or park the 50.095 (middle of the cw subband) freq on a ‘regular beacon catch’ frequency in your area. Because the 7300 does not have this common feature, you could alternatively place 50.125, 50.130, 50.135, 50.095, 50.313, 50.293(wspr), 50.26(meteor call ch), and a few beacons in the memory positions for ‘quick prop checking’..73, n6spp
great video again
Alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot golf hotel india juliet kilo lima mike November oscar papa quebec romeo sierra tango uniform Victor whiskey x-ray yankee zulu
Activate the bands with this one weird trick! Hams hate him.
Perhaps this should be, "Confessions of scope heads?" LOL Nah… I’m old school, first licensed in1950’s. But I DO own a little Icom 7300 and only have one antenna. ROFL de KQ2E
yeah, I wish it was that simple….
Hmmmmm…talking on 6?…nah, never catch on HI HI
How could you tell someone was on that frequency? You weren’t on that for more than half a second?
P.S I am currently studying to get my licence so new to all of this.
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3:48 perfect example of why you should stick to the IPA.
I Heard Something Strange On 50.132.00. So I Was On My Radio And I Heard Your Voice.
Watch brother werks revelations of Jesus Christ the truth is terrifying part 2 thanks for your video
This is my first time listening to a HAM radio exchange. Very informative and actually exciting. Thanks!
Get a cb
The best way I have found to turn the bands on, is fire up the amp, and call CQ, AND tell everyone I am at the base of Signal Mountain.
For some reason I can call CQ for an hour, and get no response, but as soon as I say I am anywhere near Signal Mountain, I get lots of replies.
I am not even on the mountain. I live at the bottom of it.
It seems everyone wants to talk to Signal Mountain.
Eric what antenna would you use on a 50 sailboat mast to run 10 meter new ham kf4oog ?
So what you guys just creep around the radio waiting to see if someone is talking then if you don’t see anything you don’t talk? What’s the point of owning the damn thing if your not going to talk to other people? Might as well get a scanner.
Don’t forget on "dead bands" you can set up one of your voice memories to call CQ, then pause for a programmable period of time and repeat calling CQ. You can solder something on your bench while it calls for you 🙂 If someone reply’s, just bump the ptt will make it stop or press the icon on the screen if someone answers you. It can really save your voice and you can make more "noise" on the "dead band" to attract attention. With 8 memories you can actually set up a contest style QSO without ever saying a word in real time. Of course that concept works in CW or RTTY modes as well. 73 de James KØUA
call cq….. easy LoL 73’sss de IZ2EID
Shirley Knott
OMG, your clock’s are out of sync.
Bought the 7300 just for it’s receiver. Have no license and have no interest in talking but just wanted a better receiver. This is it.
Just mentioning about the patent remark.
Once something is made public, as in your YouTube video, it becomes public domain and is no longer available to be patent by anyone. So, no worries of someone patenting your idea. You just shared it with the world. And we can all enjoy it. 😀
Stupid!!
Can europeans contact US with ham? Im getting interested in this.
Haha! Excellent. 🙂
Please, see my exceptional 23 cm QSO with Spain: https://youtu.be/wI038Sdtg_I
Your contact KA3RWP must’ve got his license in the early 80’s as I did I’m KA2RWP.
Could you stack these bad boys or would airflow be impeded on the bottom one? I have a 7300 but lack space on my desk to run side them side by side.
Ditto. Spot on.
That explains why the pandemic has made the bands come alive….. People are dusting off their rigs and calling CQ.
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This video is WONDERFUL Eric. I have had the same exact experience on dead bands.. and in particular, 6m. You don’t need anything fancy for an antenna, either: my 6m antenna is a piece of wire, less than 5′ long, added to my Michigan Cacti. In other words, my antenna is 4′ 8" high and cost about 3 cents. lol.
It’s like fishing and should be done outdoors
EL97 What is that in reference to?
Why the band looks dead is because everybody’s doing the same thing at the same time looking at the scope all waiting to hear someone calling CQ instead of calling CQ first themselves.
I don’t want to be the phonetic police, but I hate it when guys don’t use familiar phonetic alphabet. One guy early on was whiskey Papa, but he said Washington Pacific, which to me it sounds like he’s baiting contacts to make them think he is farther away. And then it’s misunderstood because you’re hearing a call sign, K3…then you hear what sounds like a location so you miss the call sign because you’re thinking about where he’s coming from and not what his call is, so they have to repeat it. I hear Japan instead of Juliet, Brazil instead of Bravo…France instead of Foxtrot. It’s a bit annoying.
i also heard from a ham that the bands open up when skip is running on c.b. radio. do not know if that is true or not but that is what he said.
None of this makes any sense I wish someone could just explain, what are you guys saying to one another
" it’s expensive”
I don’t have a scope I call CQ which seems to be old school these days since the waterfall scope was put in radios.
Nice video, 73 from Indonesian YD2AFO
Testing soon, can someone explain the echo lima 97 ?
It’s no secret to any worthy Ham that there’s a 90 percent chance you’ll get an answer on 6m in the middle of summer, now try this video again in the middle of winter and you’ll be very dissapointed.
I can’t wait to take my test after this lockdown is over
Too funny,how are those IC 7300 treating you, you must like them if you have two? I ask because I have been looking at one to purchase.
Why is this fun?…..over.
Don’t be a scope head
Hey Eric, i know uv been into Ham long enough.
dou have units dat u dont use anymore?
U might want to hand it down to me.
Im from an island in the Philippines.