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should unmute myself because that's how the professionals do it, is to unmute themselves.
So I think to my zoom on my I think my camera is my
zoom on. I did something. I changed something somewhere. I changed something,
so but I don't know. Okay, So hey, gfo Dale,
get the f out Dale, Jason. About three months ago I told you
that your video motied me to get back into him Radio. Today, I
passed my technician test lasted in nineteen eighty eighty one, can't remember exactly,
dude. Congratulations, Welcome to the madness. Appreciate you being in the chat
tonight, and yeah, seriously, congrats on the new license. All right,
let's um, let's just unplug the fire hose here because why not?
What's up, Frank Hi? What is going on? Jason Rank cag five
A straight? I see a beer, I don't have anything. I got
the mango stuff, but I haven't had it for you. Oh gosh,
no, I haven't had a beer in probably about a week, so good
for you. This is nine oh three brewing American Pastry London stout. Oh
no, Unamerican pastry in London. So instead of an American werewolf in London,
this is an American pastry in London stouting. And it's pretty good.
It's got it's got a lot of extra flavors in it that the Smoking ape
would hate. M but you know, it's it's it's it's tasty. Also,
can you get that knife out? Am I back there? That that's
comment at the beginning? Oh did you do that? Because I didn't watch
it? No, No, You're like, that's how professional YouTubers do it,
you know, Well yeah, but I but I was yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, but I had not unmuted myself yet. So that's
that's just kind of the way it is, all right. So, uh,
a couple of a quick announcements, UM I was given mm hmmm mmmmm.
I wonder if I should say this. I was given a heads up
about a sale that's coming next weekend for a certain an antenna that you always
make fun of me for not buildings built the hes be like sixteen times Manu
nour antenna. No quit playing dumb. So yeah, so there will be
a sale coming up on that antenna something. I don't think I'm supposed to
announce it yet, but you know, we all know what antenna that is.
Yeah, so I don't know, I'm not gonna confirmed. I might
have seen it in the chat just now, but right yeah, well yes,
yeah yeah, Andy Cowie hit the nail on the head of course.
But yeah. So so anybody who's been looking at a great HF antenna that
you will not go wrong with, um, count your pennies this week because
there's a sayen, now, that's a great HF antenna vertical antenna because it
is very very multi bad because it has four or five antennas on it.
Oh okay, Kyle, So which channel talked about it already because I can
blame them. Josh mentioned it last night. I watched Josh's video. I
must have missed that part. Okay, all right, so you want to
know something really cool. Okay, so here we're gonna all right, so
I'm gonna go and he just confirmed it again. Okay, okay, good,
good, good. Then then I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna go here.
I'm gonna play this. Indeed, Jason, this and you go.
That's currently on sale anyway at two two nine pounds. That is, I'll
give your dollars in a minute, but for the Easter weekend only. And
I've spoken to Auntie Wendy. She's agreed. Right, we're gonna do three
shipping worldwide. Yeah, that's a hell of a discount. By the way,
this should if you're in the US, you should end up delivered sometime
next week, he's after depending on the rush we have. It's Easter discount
of three hundred dollars, so it's the full nine yards command the expedition.
Absolutely, there's no skimping. We haven't trained the price down nothing. D
X ten wire, the new marine plates, the speed plates. That's really
fast to put the elements on the new wing clamps from HCl easy clamps all
excesses stainless aluminium Marine quality called says here for about two eighty five. So
there we are, and nothing like waffling back to Jason in this gdio and
there we go. So here I will share the link to this and Calum's
doing a little bit of a competition. It's a competition to see which one
of us can sell the most intendants Josh, Me, Hayden or Mike.
Okay, so you guys, yeah, get they're right there. So go
oh gosh, no, that's an ugly link. Hold on quick on this
link. Here we click on that. Go here, kill that, go
back control V. Yes, there we go. Yeah yeah, so click
the click the um HIM Radio two point o link, not the cad M
r D link like Mike just said. So no, I don't really care.
I just want to support Calm. I don't really care. I don't
expect that I will. I have done the fewest amount of videos on DX
commanders out of anybody. Well maybe not. I don't know if I'm done
Fuord and Hayden or not. But I don't know how many Hayden have done.
But Hayden, it's got a totally different market than Josh and Mike and
I do. So yeah, so yeah, cool, uh cool sale coming
up on the DX Commander. I think it's gonna start like Wednesday or Thursday
this week. He hadn't started it yet. He says, they're showing out
of stock right now. Go to that link that I just put in the
chat. I'm gonna I'm gonna pin that link in the chat because there you
go, pin message up at top. There you go, and everyone go
click on that. Please don't have to buy it. Check you can't buy
it right now. It says out of stock now. To be honest,
how much is really gonna cost? Is listed in euros? Hastick, Yeah,
good question. So he's he's gonna do free shipping, which is usually
about forty bucks. She's got forty forty five dollars US dollars for shipping,
so he's opering free shipping plus a little bit of a discount. So you're
gonna save like fifty bucks US something on it, something like that. So
um so yeah, yeah Eastern Yeah. It did say HR two Dotto Easter
Bunny Special d Ex commander Expedition Free Shipping, So that is that's what that
is? Um, Yeah, yeah, So everybody can get in the chat
and so make fun of me. And once everyone's gotten this, after the
Easter Bunny special because it does say Easter Bunny, it does say Easter Bunny.
You're correct, did not misread that? No you didn't. All right,
But after we get all this, Jason, are we gonna finally build
our XD commanders? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. I mean you realize that
you have one that you haven't built at too, right, We promised each
other we're going to build him together. I think you made that up,
but now that's okay, So we weren't going to build him side by side
and do the exact comparisons that was video. Yeah, well yours is the
expedition minds the classic, but my classic is very outdated according to what Callum
told me. That's how long it's been in the bust. I know,
I know, I know. Yeah yeah, so I just kicked myself in
the back. So TC Fitz, thank you for the super chat, buddy,
appreciate you being here tonight. So I saw Scott in the chat earlier.
We still have the go fund me going for Scott. Let me get
this extra crap out of the way here. I didn't get this correct.
You are ill um there. So those of you who don't know, Scott
was in an automobile accident and he had to have surgery after the fact.
He is home now. That was a week ago. He's been home for
almost a week. I think I don't know how long you were in the
I think he was. I think he had surgery Friday or Saturday of last
weekend, and then it was and then he spent a night or two in
the hospital after that came home. I don't know the exact timing he's been
home. He's in the chat now. So you guys send Scott some well
wishes. We are doing it. Go fund me for him. I just
put the link in the chat. We've raised fifty two hundred and fifteen dollars
so far, which is very commendable. I put a goal of ten thousand
dollars on there. I just threw that number out there. It doesn't mean
anything, you guys, go people are donating five and ten dollars, and
there's a lot of people donating a lot more than that. Donate whatever you're
comfortable for but seriously, UM, go support Scott if you can't. Dude.
Traded some text messages with him today. Yeah, still recovering, but
saying he's tired, but he was looking forward to be doing things again and
he can't wait to get up and about good. Good Yeah, yeah there
is I got sent home last Sunday, he said. So yeah, uh
so, yeah, good deal, Scott, thanks for being the chat.
We'll get you. We'll get you on on a live stream here in the
next couple of weeks. M Scott, if you're willing put Belton on your
calendar, we were gonna talk. I'm just gonna talk about Belton later on.
Anyway, my phone went off. It's downstairs. Oops. Yeah,
so that is that. Okay. So I picked up this antenna kit um
about um a week week and half ago something like that. And um,
in case you haven't figured it out yet, this is an Intena. This
is the whole kit right here. There's there's wire right here. Now that's
an interesting design, a heck of a it's a heck of a lot smaller
than a d Ex Commander, which I couldn't build on my desk. So
yeah, you know what I thought, that these were really cool looking.
Um, so here's his website. Share his website here real quick. You
should have preloaded me these links. I could drop them. Well, you
didn't join the chat very early today, so I got home late. I
just came back from Austin. Man, It's all right, it's not a
problem. I'm just just telling you. Let's see. Okay, let me
pull that up a little bit. There we go. Okay, So tooftown
dot com dot net tu F T E l N and I emailed the guy
and I was like, dude, how do you pronounce this? And he
said it's a German word or something like that, which means like creative or
something. I don't I don't remember. But anyway, so I had heard
about this antenna a long time ago. He's got three or four versions of
antenna up there. The one I got is this one that he calls a
fat boy, which is a T two forty antenna with a forty nine one
transforming which will do one hundred WAT side band. And then I was reminded
about this. So Thomas Witherspoon mentioned this on Josh's video where they talked about
AM radio bags a few weeks back, and I'm like, oh, yeah,
I've been meaning to get that, so I went and grabbed that after
that live stream that they did. So tu f t e l t e
l n dot net is that website, and I will post that link in
the chat as well, so you guys keep track of all the links tonight
and send money to all of them. I haven't posted anything of mine yet,
so I can say that, Oh boy, racer exos even thanks for
the support. Seven six twos a magic number of course, which will be
first hand raidh Happy Our T shirts or d X man or Antenna built.
I have a hand raid and Happy Our T shirt that I wear constantly.
So I don't know what you're talking about. Are you cleared, Frank?
Yes, okay, I saw you sneezing. Yeah, yeah, no,
I know, I know you did. So. So these are the build
instructions for this thing, and we're gonna try to make that tour where it
is. It's it's huge in that picture. It's it's it's not really that
big, Okay, it's a t um It's it's it's what's it called a
um that looks like the same toler that they have on the ones that we
built our radio, I think Adams. No, it's smaller than the one
on Adam. Yeah, it's about the same as the one on Camp four
a ck, it's about that same size, which that one's only rated at
sixty watts, but this one says it will do one hundred what Sideman fifty
wat's digital? So yeah, so it's about about you big right there.
But I think you just cover the question of the chat Listen just saw that
cool undigital. Yeah, fifty watts on digital is what it says. So
that's that's what. Um, that's what we're looking at there. But um
yeah, something like that. Okay, So I'm gonna kind of frank,
I'm gonna kind of let you have the um rain snide if you want to
ya, and I'm gonna, um, I'm gonna kind of do this on
my own so I can see what to see what I've got going here.
I need to No, this is this is this is yarn, this is
the this is the wire that I've got a twist. So no, it
does not come with twisted paired wire. This that that's that's what I thought
that was when I took it out of the bag. I'm like, oh,
it's already twisted. I'm like, no, it's not. This is
just a piece of yarn I assumed to tie something up with. I don't
know, so yeah that, um no, he's got zip ties up for
that. So I'm not sure what the wire with the yarn is for.
I don't. I don't think so. But you could be right. You
could be right. You could be right on that. I don't think so,
but but you could be right. So, Okay, I'm gonna tend
my sawder here real quick. So, no, you're not muted. Oh
wait a minute, Wait a minute, you are muted. Hold on,
uh no, no, no, no, I don't have you added to
this scene. Hold on a second. I don't use this four windows scene
very much. Hold on put Yeah, there we go. Okay, you're
in there now, Sorry about that? Paid Yeah, no, you're in
there now. Thank you, Thank you, thank you? Yeah yeah,
silent, Frank, that's you. You say that, Briant, You say
that like it's a bad thing. Can't hear Frank in my seven DJT?
Thank you for spilling means. We could have been Frank free all night,
but you guys didn't want to. They love me, Jason, They love
me, I'm sure that was it. Now, I don't use this four
window. This is for that's dat camera da camera zoom window, which is
right there in my browser window, which is actually that that way right there.
So I don't use this four screen very much on the live stream.
So while you're doing that, I will be watching the chat for any questions
and giving my critique and commentary to Jason's batted building techniques. Correct, it's
the only way to do it. It's a lovely way to do it.
So all right, So start with a half inch front end, twist together
for four inches of long and short wire. Happened front end? So these
I read through these instructions a couple of hours ago. Good, good,
good, I should say, I reread through them a couple of hours.
Yeah, right, probably good idea. So okay, so yeah, so
start with a half inch that's about oh, that's yeah, that's probably good
right there, and then twist for four inches in long and short wire.
Can you can you get the action on camera? There? You go?
Yeah, And I've got a you know what, I think The inches are
on the other side of this, Yeah, the inches are on the other
side of that thing. So I have a random wire. The video coming
up on Monday. I'll put probably shouted out at the end of the stream,
but I'll answer your question now. Um, it is the reflashing of
the router that we used on the last live stream, the mica uh.
I got that router. I got it set to me by two of y'all.
Thank you very much. I do appreciate it. You got two of
them. Yeah, okay. I found my second one earlier this week,
which was which which one I originally had at my Galveston house. So I
need to I need to update that to the latest firmware. And i'd taken
to Galveston later later this month, when we go back down there. I'd
spawn to a couple of emails. I'm bad at emails. I see them
as they come in, I swipe left, and I was going to do
them later because most of the time, y'all, everyone writes me a while
I'm at work. I don't cross work and tank radio. Um so I
wait, what's work, Jason? Some of us have a job, and
that you want to go there? You want to go there? Pays the
best. You want to go there, Well, you go there if you
want to. I don't think you want to go there, So I need
a drink. Some of us have a job outside amateur radio. Ah,
yeah, my job's outside of amateur radio. Amateur radio pays me very little
outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got something new. I don't
know about. YouTube is not amateur radio, is it? Yeah, gotta
get you with smant it's frank, I love it. I love it.
Don't say Ryan says, don't say that, Jay were so No, they
just have a very hefty um clause about stuff I do. Ah, okay,
so I just I don't mix. Since everyone at working though, does
social media. I don't mind we applying to chats or tweets and things,
but I don't do actual business work. Okay, all right. So now
you winded it, and it says the wine it says to twist it for
about four inches. Start from with a half inch from the bottom and or
front half inch from the loop, I should say, and twisted about four
inches. And I measured with my pad down here. I saw I measared
four inches. You have a ruler on there, it's yeah, these are
in these are it's in centimeters right here. But on the under side of
it, there's oh, that's why you flipped it. Yeah, yeah,
okay, okay, yeah, what's the other side color green? I like
the blue better. That's the only reason I have it on this way.
So now my blue pad. Since there's no print on it, it keeps
thinking at skies and doing it infinite. Oh yeah, yeah, so I
gotta put something on there and lock down the focus, all right, but
keep going so okay at the longer end of the short wire towards the remaining
long wire. Okay, husting gibbs the Santa clause, ha ha, I
love it. I love it. The twisted section down alongside the toroid and
wrap in the right. Make one more wrap the twist extection. There should
now be two turns, two turns. Okay, I can do that now.
One day. We need to talk to Ape and maybe I'll get him
on my channel. You can understand why he twists the pairs around the toll
roid. What makes you think Ape knows? He doesn't even know how to
pronounce the word correctly? Ape? Ape is pretty smart and he's actually he's
actually, he's actually pretty he's actually pretty knowledgeable in that. Yeah, but
he's not. But what we do We have to dock them though, linguistics
Miller light. That's I wouldn't even I wasn't going to go I wouldn't gonna
go to the middle of light thing. But all right, let's go with
the flat earth theories. Well that too. Yeah, Now I mean to
always count the turns passing through the center of the core. Okay, good,
boom, wrap the long wire wrapped. A hold on a second.
Make make sure I did that right. Start with a half inch in the
front end. Twist together four inches of the long and short. Well,
oh, wait a minute, I did that wrong. I did that wrong.
I didn't read the instruction. I can't help you here. So it
wants me to twist together too. So there's two different wires here. So
is so used to doing that because you didn't use the magnet wire? No,
no, I did. I did. But there's two magnet wires.
Okay, So the last three of these antennas I built together, there was
one magnet wire and you have a loop at the end. And I thought
that's what that was talking about. See, this is real world. See
we have not practiced this. This is not scripted. This is not reality
TV where everything's fake. Joshua says, uh, I've never built one of
these, uh intends while reading the instructions. Good for you, I commend
you. They work. And how much smoke did you let out? Right?
Yeah, you're not gonna let smoke out by doing doing that. So
okay, So it wants me to wrap the long wire, which is really
long. Kyle says, raps go up to down instead of down to up.
Uh not according to this picture. I don't know. But again I've
never I've never I've never done one that's um you know, uh, two
wires together. I've always done it with a loop at the end of one
wire. So okay, so we're gonna start with it. We're gonna do
that again, the twists we twist the line wire to help reduce interference.
Maybe something similar here. Okay, interesting, okay, so let's do start
there. There we go. That's good. Okay. Now did you see
um t O's tool for twisting wires? I did, Yes, Like he
was like put it in there and did something like this. Yeah, then
like released it. He goes Yep, cheating, but no, it's not
cheating. Kind of cheating. Maybe a little bit cheating, but no,
it looked that looked like a great idea. Actually so okay, so boom
boom boom. Okay, um four inches almost there? Okay, good four
inches there. That's pretty good right there. Okay, Now, so we
got a short wire that's sticking up like that wild hit hell? What do
you normally lose for power on FT eight? Um? No? Rely on
FT eight for me is I'm using the G nineties, So I'm pumping out
twenty watts. I use as much power as my radio will do, or
intenta or the intenta will do. Go. Okay, let's scroll down here
and look at that. That's so yeah twisted twice. Okay. Randy from
face page says I have twenty eight new contacts on FT eight on ten meters
and add to my log today. Andrew confirmed and he is one thousand,
five hundred and thirty eight QSOs and has two thousand, eight hundred and thirty
nine counties. H congratulation. It's kind of cool. Yeah, that's really
cool. Okay, hit you off a face page, you'll be even better.
Wrap the long wire to the left, make five wraps, and then
back through the center and cross the opposite side. Oh yeah, five raps,
so one, two, three, four or five and then a sixth
rap that goes under and crossed. I got it then back through the center.
This crossover because it passes through the center of corps, counts as one
rap. There are now two twisted pair wraps, five raps in the long
wire, and one rap crossing the opposite side of total eight wraps. Okay,
understood, I am with you. So, yeah, is this uh
Joshua N five f y correct? Yes, this is his antenna. This
is his antenna. I just put two to two together. Is having fun?
Um, that is him? Awesome. So I emailed him and asked
him because I always say things wrong, right, So I said, dude,
how do you pronounce this word? And he's like, here's a video.
He goes and he said, He's like, well, that's a good
question. He's like, here's how I say it. So you can take
that for what it's worth. I don't know, but it's a video.
He he pronounced it tough tone to tone, tough town, tough tone,
no t e l n dude, T yeah, I know, just say
it slowly, tough tough tone, teln tone, tough tone. He says,
it's kind of fastened the video he sent me. But yeah, tough
Tone Wild Cascadia G ninety plus the Daisy rig That is just that film that
this weekend. Um Um spoilers, the new wire, the USB wire choice,
must have, must have, oh h Ken Simmons in the chat.
Can you buy one of these pre built if you're disabled and can't make your
own? Yes, you can. He has them in like five or six
different variations. You can buy the you can buy the the wrap, the
the the wire rap by itself. You can buy the kit. You can
buy it pre assembled. You can buy it pre assembled with wire. You
can buy the kit with wire, which is what I bought about. The
kit with wire. You don't have. This is twenty six gage um um.
What's it called wire? It is? It is. It's the stuff
that adam uses. What's it called um um um? Pattenna? No,
no, no, no, the the the you know what I'm talking about.
I know you're talking about the word. It's not coming to me,
so yeah, me neither, Matt. How much are you looking to spend?
You want a nice radio, so for FT eight, but you don't
want the G nineties, So I'm just offhanded. I'm thinking you're talking about
five hundred dollars, right, I agree, Cascadia, it is the perfect
set. Two you're my biggest fan, four five, and the sixth one
goes under like that. Um stealth, Yeah, poly stealth correct Steve Stephen,
thank you, Joshua, thank you. Oh josh was in the chat.
Hey dude, thanks for Oh I didn't you. I didn't hear you
say he was in the chat. Yeah, So yeah, poly stealth wire.
That's that's the word I was looking for. That Pella selth wire is
beautiful. I would ask Josh. I would Joshua, and I would ask
you to join the zoom. You're welcome to if you want to. But
I don't really want people tell me how how wrong I'm doing it. So
well, you already have one person on here, well that I don't.
You don't count, So all right, So here we go. Continue to
wrap the long wire once it has crossed the core from left or right for
six additional turns. Yeah, that's okay, that's synonymous to what we do
with the with the other ones I've built. Okay, so six more so
one, two, three, two three, I'm counting in the picture.
There's the there's one, there's two, three, four or five city Okay,
Joshua, I do I do know now why you don't read the instructions.
I just thought you were a big braid. Yeah. No, I
read the instructions and then I I like to see what are you talking?
Okay, so instructions on building antenna and instructions and a manual for a new
radio or two different things. I like to see when I get a new
radio. I like to see how intuitive the radio is. It's like,
okay, can I figure this out just by looking at it? Do the
menus make sense? Do the buttons make sense? The names on the buttons
make sense? Sometimes? Yes? Sometimes No, that new FtM six thousand
from Yazu that I've been using and met my tech prepper man pack menus on
that thing or whack, Oh, it makes more sense. It's spelled out
here to ten to to ten to tell tell tell, I see an it's
t E L And no it's not an I thought it was an eye as
I thought it was toof ten, but it's too tell it's an L.
I'm just gonna say, Josh was amazing antenna. Yeah, there we're going.
That's the name from it for now on brand. Two cents for every
sale, five Yeah, so I really love in FED halfway antennas on PODA
on parts in the air. I've used the Spark plug gear antenna. I've
used the pac tena many times. I've used UM. I haven't used Adams
Intena yet because I haven't put why. I was going to take that to
Galveston with me last time and I forgot to grab it. I found it
and the car antenna. They were both exactly where I put them. So
I've got both of those packed away for my next trip to Galveston. I'm
gonna put wire on both of them. That's gonna be a video, and
I'll probably take this thing as well. Okay, so two five six,
heya looks good. The more Intendnas the better. And I love how these
inn feds pack down exactly. I have like a the generic bag for the
Gigaparts backpack. I have three of those Feneric bags and one of them is
just n feds and and wired to build another in FED or at least the
the linked session set. UM. I messed that up and I need to
start again. What the link section and what I think? Yeah, the
link section. When I when we were at the park that just closed down,
Fairfield. I was trying to build the link art and I couldn't get
a good read out of the antenna, so I didn't know if it was
the base. I didn't know if I cut the wire wrong. I didn't
know if it was the adapter. There was too many unknowns, and before
I cut any other wire off, I just stopped too many ideas. That's
that's you. You made the right decision. Seriously, Yeah, I mean
that's you're like, you're in the field, you don't really know. You
don't want to screw something up. So yeah, you made the right decision
for that, and I just need to get out there to start again.
Plus plus one of the other things is, um, you let me use
your fifteen foot antenna or an antenna you're a tape measure, and that it
was just going back and fourth, like all right, I need a twenty
eight foot section and then you got to walk again. Um I bought a
two hundred foot metric and Imperial measure. So I'm just gonna do what Mike
does. Stake it in the ground, grab the wire, just start walking
and bend down. And that's the length right there, two hundred feet.
That is more than anything that we're going to build here. Don don don
you're from Texas, so I give you. I give a pass. But
he's all like, oh, look he's building antenna that's as easy to build
as a DX commander. That's crap. Okay, d excommander has like eight
wires. This has one. Now now, so now did that wire come
pre tuned or do you have the tenant to do? I assume it is
most infed half waves, I don't remember. Most infed a halfwaves just come
with a mess of wire like the car Tenna and the hand radio. Dude,
nintenna just came with a glob of wire, like one hundred feet wire,
and you just tune it. You can do it. You can do
a twenty meter or thirty meter or forty, or you can even do a
sixty meter or something. You can tune it for whatever you want to um
eighty meters like one hundred and thirty three feet, no, yeah, forty
meters like sixty six sixty five, sixty six feet, one hundred eighty meters
twice that. So you can tune it for whatever bands you want. So
they allow you, most of these places allow you. I don't remember what
the length of wire. Maybe Josh can tell us in the chat here,
but that is a that is a lot of wire there. I'm sure I
can get at least an eighty meter out of it, because it seemed like
a lot of wire. One because it came all wrapped on this too roid
right here or I'm sorry, this rapper right here, and I had to
take it all off before I started the video. So, but yes,
it comes with a bunch of wire, and you can buy it. And
then somebody asked him the chat earlier if you could buy it pre assembled.
Yes, you can. You can buy it with or without the wire as
a kit or pre assembled, and you can add your own wire if you
don't want to use the twenty six gage probably stilled, so you can do
however you want to with that. So that's that's pretty fun. Okay,
So let's put that back corn Now he had one of these, and I
thought I bought the one with the s O two thirty nine, but apparently
I didn't. That's okay, that's okay. Honestly, he has one.
He has one with ANESO two thirty nine. I saw it on his website.
Honestly, though, I like BNC over s two thirty nine. It's
just so much easier to hook up on my antennas. It's just right,
push the end, twist once and you know it's locked. Yes, versus
you turn and turn and then you turn the wire a little bit. Depends
on what roof and then you turn some more. It depends on what coax
you have. So I had ABR Industries build me a coax with a choke
on one end. Yes, um, that had an S O two or
a P two fifty nine on one end and a B and C on the
other end. So I can take the BNC and plug it into my seven
oh five and take the POL two fifty nine and the other end and plug
plug it into say my um my IMPASS two point zero from Chameleon or a
dxmand or if I want to more, some other or some other antenna,
or I can switch it. I can take the POW nine, plug it
into my FTDX ten and take the BNC on the other end and plug it
into a PAC tenna or a spark plug your antenna or this guy right here,
And That's probably what I'm gonna do with it. So yeah, so
I've got it. I've got to coax it's that bride wrange one I've seen
you might have seen some of my videos, but it's got a pelifty nine
one NB. I love that idea so much. I'm gonna be contacting them
and also trying to get the same type of wire. Yeah, but I
know every radio has that p L two fifty nine connection on it. It's
just standard, ye, And I know why a lot of antennas have the
same connection. It's just standard and great, but it's so big, the
big. The BNC connector is actually a better connector of the Peel two fifty
nine. I'm unaware of why they use PEL two nine so often. So
often, it's just kind of sort of yeah, a little bit, a
little bit like default. Yeah, And in fact, type in is actually
better to higher frequency. Now for HIF, it really doesn't matter. But
for higher frequencies you're talking about forty nine point two, its type end is
much better than two thirty nine. But for HF it it doesn't freaking matter.
Whatever you want to do. I don't have my UM, I don't
have my needle nose here, so I'm gonna try to get this as tight
as I can. Joshua said, you can cut it to sixty eight feet
if you want forty meters sixty eight feet okay, that's longer than so the
spark plug gear antennas I suggest the question. I okay, cut cut along
at sixty eight feet if you want, for if forty meters ordered? So
if what's what's bad? I think I got the I I believe I got
the forty meters. Okay, I just cut because then you need to tune
it down. I'm sure that's normal. Okay, so that's normal, So
good, good, good, I'm happy with that. Um, I have
tried to use an eighty meter wire on PODA, and you got to have
a lot of freaking room to put up an eighty meter wire. Some PODA
spots it's easy. Some PODA spots is not so easy. It's not so
easy. At Galveston Island State Park on the Bay side where I normally,
there's not a broom over there, so we could put we could easily.
As a critique, UM, side of the tab goes on the bottom.
You can't install it top if you like it that way. Oh, I've
got it upside down. Okay, that's fine. I haven't tightened you yet.
Hy cool. See we should have brought him in here because I don't
know what I'm doing. It's okay, did you get that story? So
I hear something out here, Frank, did you get that storm earlier?
Um? It rains? I thought I was, Yeah, it was.
It was over quick. We had some hillacious thunder and lightning for like twenty
minutes. My dog was all rubbing up against me, and I'm like,
am I gonna freaking have to cancel tonight's stream because I'm gonna lose power?
But it it was electroc no duchess okay, so um no, man,
it was thunder and lightning. And I went outside to see what it was
and like the the rain was almost all like dried up. Yeah yeah Texas
like clear skies now out. Yeah. So Don says we should put up
an eighty meter and fed halfway at the dear Lease. Actually, if you
guys watch my European Happy Hour, I was talking to Colum about is one
sixty. I want to put up one sixty meter and tenant to the dear
Lease, which will do eighty just fine because eighty times two is one sixty,
so it'll you know, it's a harmonic and all that stuff. So
yes, I want to do. I want to do one hundred and sixty
meters at the dear lease that'll do all of the things. So yes,
Don says he slipped through the storm. Good for you, buddy, But
yeah, I don't have my needle in nexus. Now I think it's it's
it rained again. Now I hear a noise outside. Not here. I'll
just see a light breeze. Okay. If I had my phone, i'd
bring up on the radar app. Okay. So we're gonna bend this tab
down. So I've got it like that upside down the way that so the
BNC connectors now pointing out. Yeah, that's how I see. I had
it pointed out all I had it pointed out before. It was just like
that, and the tab this tab here was on this side. And he's
like, no, you need to turn it. And I'm like, you're
right, that's his instructions are correct. So he corrected me in the chat,
which is fine. So good. Okay, So there's the BNC right
there, So we're gonna get let me get a little bit closer view on
it right there. Uh put up one hundred and sixty meter full wave loop.
Hell yeah, I might do that. You say that like it's a
joke, but it's yeah, I might actually do that. Uh where's this
chrome? Okay? So yeah, there's a little bit better view of it
right there. So that's that's what I've got now, all right, So
scroll down to step seven. Place the wire rap toroid in the winder with
the twisted paradowns. I want to go back to my other screen so you
guys can see what I'm talking I'm talking about here, Okay, So we're
gonna turn it like this. Okay, law says there is a storm heading
towards us front Flower Mound. It's headed south. That's weird, Okay,
I believe you. M okay, yeah, okay, So place that there.
My raps are probably not tight enough for that, honestly. Now,
how well spaced you want those? I was told this guy, this guy,
this guy um Josh in here. He's like he's like freaking Adam.
He's like perfect spaces on his on his wraps. I'm like, none of
my intents looked like that. I think Adam is there with tweezers. Adam's
there with an Adam has a machine. I swear to you, he has
a machine. That raps for him. He's like, no, I did
this by him. Nobody does that by him. You freaking robot. So
okay, uh, I'm kidding. Adam doesn't have the machine. He's just
done it so many times that he is the machine. He is the machine.
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Done, confirms thunder in his area.
That's not the way up in like plain, Oh I thought I heard
Yeah, I thought I heard thunder. Just now it could be along squall
line. It's true, that's true. So that's still is an interesting base
that he has there. That's a very cool looking rapper and I know,
right, so and this is not He's got like three different designs on the
website. So he's got a qrp antent on which I like this one because
it just I think it looked the coolest. So okay, I got it
to fit in there. What do you know, Oh, he just pushed
it in there. Actually actually on a picture later, he has zip ties
on the picture. But I didn't get any zip ties with the package,
so I got one the one. I got this black zip tie. But
I don't know if this was already on my desk rid it's part of the
package. So yeah. Now he has zip. He has white zip ties
around in these four holes to hold it in place. And I've got plenty
of zip ties. I don't have any here with me at this moment,
but yeah, well we'll probably finish that off camera later on. Okay,
place the raptoroid into the liner inside. Twist, twist the twisted pair.
Trim the twisted pair at Trim the twisted pair two at the hex nut on
the coax connector two at two at the hex nut twisted pair. Okay,
so trind the twisted pair to the hex nut. So I believe you're going
to be either soldering or right it to the hex nut or the the tap
that's pointed correct, yes, um so bump oh, and he's got that
going there. Okay, thread the final lead. Okay, that goes down
there. Trim the twisted pair. I'll do that in a second. Hey,
it's take her head. What's up? Ed? Okay, Okay,
get that there and put that back up A new earstorm warning. See,
I don't even get out of the bed until you know a terminado to watch
right right, Texas. I know I want to sat I want I want
to do a live stream from the truck during Monday store watches. Dude,
we should red Trimmer was re Trimmer was streaming last week. He had thirty
six hundred people watching him and he was just driving. And this is a
guy who pulls up next to the car following him and rolls down his window
and talks to the guy behind him because he didn't know how to use a
freaking CB radio. So no, retrim is a great dude, don't don't
get me wrong, but yeah, seriously, it's fun. It's fun to
watch. Definitely fun to watch. Okay, I'm gonna pull that down that
they're good cheat there you go, here we go, okay, good,
Okay, now it's tied in there. Okay, good. So the picture
there to trim the twisted pair down at the hex nut on the coax connector,
so basically right there, that's fine. Oh that's what the string is
for, Josh says um. The Atwood rope manufacturer, Carcos will be supplied.
They threaded will go through the winder and the tour roide. These zip
ties will be easier for some Oh so this so this why so this thread
right here is for to use in place of the zip tipes. Okay,
makes sense, makes sense. Good. Trim the single lead, yeah,
I did that. Thread the final lead. I did that. Trim the
lead at the trim the lead at the top pair of holes. Okay,
that's fine. Uh yep, that's yeah. We can do that later.
Okay. Oops, yeah, Edward handytoofed tool is always somewhere. Okay.
Remove the enamel from each wire end a quarter of an inch. This can
be done with a knife for a wire cutter's Yeah, a flame may also
be used, okay, hot sutter. If using hot method, be sure
not to burn the winder. Okay. My preferred method is to use wire
cutters. If I was stripping the installation back up, that's a good idea.
Yeah, yeah, I see you can see that. I don't know
if you guys can see that really in the picture or not. But he
has um now I don't have that he has in this um well I can
I can go over here, I guess in this picture right here he has
the uh the red magnetic wire with the enamel trimmed off at the twisted pair
on then hen you highlight that with your MAUSM just right here. No,
we're not seeing the mouse on this Okay, yeah, I don't think the
mouse shows up. Okay, but it's on the it's on the instructions.
So the the the I don't have that bag. Oh yeah, So the
whole thing came in this this bag right here, and this big ziploc bag,
and it says in in fed halfway portable intended by two tail and it
gives you things instruc. Then it says tiny tiny urol dot com forward slash
tooftone is the instruction is the PDF file. So that's where I'm getting out,
so you can and the whole thing comes with that when you buy it
as a kid. So one original outlaw says it's hailing and irving? Is
it? Is it really? Well? Is it kind of sad? I'm
waiting for that good hail store to replace my roof. Texas never pay for
new roofs. They just want to store. Yeah, I know, I
need to. I need to uh, I need to get a new root.
I need to get a new roof put in my house so I can
put my solar pameels up. Okay, let's see here, all right,
I'm gonna do some enamel wrapping. Go ahead and talk about something. Frank
um are you using that stripper to get the enamel wrapping or not? Just
gonna cut it? No, it doesn't cut it, he said. He
My preferred method is use wire cutters as if I was stripping insulation back.
That's what this is. So I think I'm gonna use my NiFe. Yeah,
because I've got I also used sam paper. Uh you know what that's
I've used that before. I don't have any with me at the moment,
So djt uh doesn't it burn off easily? Probably? Yes it does.
But I'm just scraping mine office or whatever. Okay, that's there. Okay,
that's good. Belton, Frank Belton. We are going to Belton.
Let me pull up the day it's it's not it's two weeks from yesterday.
Two weeks from yesterday. That should be your Friday off, Frank uh Belton.
Yes, it's gonna be my Friday off. So I'm going down Thursday
night and spending the night like I've done in the past. Okay, so
we're if you want to go with me, You're welcome to if you want
to. Um I let me just see what can work out. Um or
I'll be coming down early Friday morning. I'm following you back. But then
from there though, we are going to support your park weekends Saturday, correct
ye, and be spending the night at a park and we're gonna be playing
radio all weekend. That is correct. That is support your Parks weekend and
it is um not a plaque event. We're just going and play just a
regular rold everyday, support your Parks weekend. So I'm burning it off,
Scott, if that's acceptable to you. What what is the tiny u r
l tiny urel dot com forward slash choftem to u f t e l n.
That's it. That's the pdf file. Um, I'm looking forward to
it. Belton's a fun show if the weather holds. If the weather's all
rainy and stormy and crap, I'm probably not gonna even go. But Belton's
a fun show. But the the support your Parks weekend should be fun.
Even if it does rain, we can set up the end. We'll have
to go out in the rain, set up the antenta, go in and
dry off, and then just joining us. As far as I know he
is, last time I talk to him he said he was so I don't
know he's it's raining, he's gone. Yeah, he's gone. He's gone
to Belton every time that he's been, uh ever, since he moved to
Texas, he's gone to Belton, So I think he will probably be there.
But yeah, so I didn't. I didn't like this. Not a
contest, well, plaque him a contest. It is plaque weekend is a
contest, just that one weekend. They turned it into a contest. Yes,
but that does not mean parks in the air as a contest. It's
just that one weekend. So I can see why they did it. I
can. I have mixed feelings about it, but I understand Dandle there coming
from you want to get little little awards, Yeah, recognition, Hey,
Steve at M seventeen projects in the chat M. I don't have any sand
paper with me though, Yes, you're right, Sam paper does work better.
Yeah, I use Sam paper. Um. I was I gonna say,
oh, did someone's ham alerts blow up this weekend? Mine? Did?
I saw you on there? It's like, what are you doing,
Frank dude? Like I just turned on the radio and I was just still
trying to figure out if I was getting out Jayson's text. Are you at
home? Are you at home? Yeah? I didn't think at a park
you work, you work ftate at home sometimes, Yeah, I do.
I do. I was like, no, I'm at a park. He's
like, oh, I forgot. It was Modern road weekend. But yeah,
and I went down to Mammoth National Monument. You know what, that's
a pretty cool place. And it's our closest National Park area. I don't
think I've been down there yet. It's pretty cool. The farmers of that
area were plowing the field and they found mammoth bones, and they found thirty
six skeletons in the area, and the farmer actually donated about less than five
acres of land to the National Park Society and they turned it into a monument
and where they're still excavating slowly today. But if you go there, be
careful setting up during lunchtime, because yeah, there were a lot of school
kids around eating lunch and yelling and yelling. Yeah. I was playing FT
eight for a reason for a while. I didn't know why I was setting
it up and getting I was trying to record a video. But when they're
around eating, I was just playing FT eight. This works. Yeah.
Did you get to get an antenna up at home, Dawn? No,
not yet I'm buying stuff. I'm trying this month to make headway this month
actually getting uh VHF stuff up at my house. I still got to buy
a last couple of things, but everything's identified. I need to measure around
the base of my house. I know what I probably talk about that next
Sunday in my stream and we will be getting my station up for uh VHF.
M Yeah, good, good, good, Okay, I need to
figure out what he's talking about here. Sold are the female banana plug into
the wire opposite the coax connector? So we're starting to work on the antenna
now, No, we're still on the toroid on the magnetic wire. So
you said banana plug. I know, well that's what it says, is
banana plug. So I think that's I think he means the opposite end of
the BNC I think that's what all right? Yeah, um, sold are
the single wire into the BNCRS two thirty nine? Okay, so banana plug?
Whater? If he means this random wire? Plans for Dayton will be
there. We'll be at Dayton, um sure will. Other than that,
one night will be at troll Club. Do not know what that night is?
I hope. I certainly hope. So if they'd ever returned my freaking
phone calls. Oh, I thought we already had the room booked. Someone
has the room booked, maybe Kyle Kyle has it booked. They require a
credit card to secure the room. I've called them four times. They given
the credit card number, and they don't. The lady who needs to book
it is never there and she does not return phone calls. So I'm still
working on it. I'm still I'm still working on it. But that's that's
the plantat Yes, yes, it's it'll it'll happen. We'll make it happen.
We'll make it happen. Okay, okay, sold are the female banana
plug into the onto the wire opposite coax connector less? His allergies are killing
me, dude, dude, I got hit this weekend too. O.
Man, I was on Thursday. I didn't get off the couch. I
was sneezing and hacking so bad. If I come to my life, yeah,
if I was female female banana plug. Okay, that's this one here.
Yeah, so there's a banana plug here. I'm gonna put my glasses
onto this because I'm freaking old. So all right, plug. Okay,
it's been a while since we've seen you when glasses on stream. No it
hadn't. I think so a week or two. Okay. So female,
okay, so that's that started. The female banana plug onto the wire opposite
the coax Jason, the radiating end where the banana clug connector will go.
That does not help me. I'm sorry, let's see. Sorry. That
was from Joshua. Yeah, I see him in the chat Um banana plug,
which is this part right here, the opposite end to the BNC connector.
Um, okay, on the BNC connector onto the opposite and the cocte.
Yeah, okay, that right there. Mm hmm. I just came
up from Austin and um the pollen outside all day and I was fine until
like seven o'clock and dude, like my voice was, it was like when
I would I'm around cats. Yeah ten yeah, um oh. It was
a step below wheezing. I wasn't wheezing by felt it coming. I was
like, okay, yeah, I hit my little bit. I don't think
that that's I don't know what he means by that. Sorted the feet on
the plug onto the wire opposite coax connector. Is there a picture? Yeah,
it's all sorted together in the picture. Oh he means over here.
Oh it's okay, okay, opposite opposite the coacts connector. Okay, so
he means over here. Well, that's the picture's way down there. Okay,
that's that's what I meant. Yeah, so this is where the antenna
connector. Yeah. Oh you mean the wire connector. Yeah. Yeah,
so where the wire's going to connect to. Okay, alright, alright,
alright, alright. I thought he meant over here because the picture next to
step thirteen and fourteen is the picture of the bn C, so I thought
that's where he was talking C photo on step sixteen. Yes, I see
that now, Okay, okay, we're gonna do that. Then a drill.
It's out. Benadro is the only thing that works on me. It
does put me out, Yes, absolutely it does. But it's also the
only thing that works. I take it to basically take two at night and
go to bed. I know I can take it at eleven and then at
noon I could close my door and I'll take it an hour nap. Well,
shoot, I wish I could take an hour nap. I could take
an hour nap and I get up and it'll be all groggy the rest of
the day. I was like, I didn't say that part. I just
know. Then after an hour and a half, I know I'm going to
be out, so I time it to be lunchtime, weather permitting. M
Are you thinking about it after chat tonight? Um? Not really shoots m
m hmm. Okay, damn it. I packed away all my crap because
we're out of town tomorrow, so I don't have some of the tools I
need here. You don't have like two sets of them? No, no,
I don't. So you're taking your tools on your trip, your get
away. It's in case you never know what you're gonna need. Well,
you did get permission to play radio this strip. That is correct. Okay,
let me put this in here. Don says more rain, more rain,
Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Why is it allergies get really
bad before a good thunderstorm because it blows up everything. Well, you think,
but you'll think you'd be like the hour or two before the thunderstorm,
But me, it's like the whole day prior it's coming. I've been sneezing
the whole day prior myself not usually. Okay, that's on there. It
could be a little bit prettier, but it's on there. M hm.
Hey, Joshua um, if you want to come on, I'll be happy
to shoot you the link you got Jason's email address case five eh WB at
gmail dot com. Or if you shoot me an email, tank Ham Radio
at gmail, or reach us out on the discord. Yeah, Discord's probably
best. Plenty of soder on their DJT. Yeah, but it whips up
all the pollen. But it's like the full day for me prior. I'm
like dad and sneezing before the winds of the storm blow with all that stuff
in there, right, true. Yeah, I'm the same way. Yellow
haze of death dude. When I was in Houston a couple of weeks and
everything, yeah, oh everything. My car was caked in hollend I had
to take it to the washers just to get the pollen off. I have
yellow. I have the yellow haze on everything on my patio. I've cleaning
it off like three times this week. Up here. Yeah, yellows,
it's not as bad up here, but yes, yeah, it's all over
my patio. So okay, all right, that's on there. I'm not
shrink wrapped that to make it a little bit more stable. So let's see
the solder of the single wire into the BNC. The single wire in the
BNC sorder the wire pair bombs. Okay, so it's a single wire in
the beginning. See, you got it. I can do that. I
need to trim that probably no. I was growing up a human barometer.
I knew it was going to be bad now. To be honest, this
time of year, it's gonna rain every other night. So yeah, true,
very true. November six kilo victor. Year round allergies, I got
them. Cats are pretty much my worst. I do not have year round
allergies, thankfully, it's usually just this time of year. Maybe sometimes in
the fall a little bit, but usually it's just this time of year.
So thankfully. What step are we on? We're on step fifteen or fourteen
sorry to the wire into the BNC or restrot or three nights and that's where
I am right here. And also, what sorry, iron are you using?
This is the This is the hako or hacko um. I forget the
model number on it. It's the same one everybody, f X eight delta.
Nice. Nice someone you can adjust the temperature on if you want to,
I just always leave it at the highest one. But I just realized,
you're wearing a cowtown hat. I am. I haven't been there in
a while. I've been there too. They did have a good Um what
did I like? Bioum? It was a good amber. It was a
good amber. I really really did enjoy it. And then I started keto
heavily a couple of years ago and no more. Yeah, weld Ham,
you're like me, the world's out to get me. Yeah, it's probably
right, dude. When they did my allergy chest, they did the pricks
all around my arm. She's like, I'll be back in twenty minutes.
Holler if you need anything. I said, okay, it comes back twenty
minutes later. How are you go? God? Are you okay? Do
you need an eppepin? I'm like, I'm fine. What's up your All
your dots ran together? Look like my skin irritated just so much. They
couldn't tell where all the dots were. Oh gosh. Okay. I tried
for the while the shots, but I just got tired getting shots all the
time. Okay, I think that's good. Look at that you're doing a
thing it's definitely in there. It's not pretty, but it is in there.
Nothing I make is pretty, okay. Fifteen sawder the wire pair and
the bar bttom side of the solder tail in the BNC side of the wire
pair in the bottom side of the store. Okay, so that that guy?
Um? Sorry too? Um? Is that long enough? Yeah?
It is the bottom side of the solder tail. Tom. The only thing
I'm allergic to is work. Yeah, I hear that. I think we
all have an um a bad reaction to work. Yeah, let's see.
Let's see if I can see a little bit better picture of that. Uh.
Okay, it's hard to see exactly how he's doing that. Yeah.
I also tried the the local honey solution for supposedly that's supposed to help with
your allergies. I think it's a myth. I looked at or some clinical
research and like, yeah, that it doesn't work. It's too processed by
the bees to really do anything. Oh, well, there it is done.
I've been waiting for it all night. He is allergic to s plus.
That sounds like, don there's the joke. There's the joke there.
It is so okay, and that doesn't matter. Out of the twisted pair,
which ones we saw it or two? Uh? What do you mean?
So? So so we got the twisted pair. Loop? Is that
you're what you're working with right now? Uh? No, not the loop.
The well, there is no loop on this one because it was two
separate wires. Okay, So this would have been the loop. Otherwise this
would have been the loop on another style of antenna. Okay, but we
would have probably just cut the loop to have it where it's two different wires
here, So this is this is where the loop would be. But there's
no loop on this okay. So I just trying to get it kind of
pride into the right direction. Here there we go. Okay. Screws coming
loose said, oh no, it's not it's not It's fine. Tom says,
raw local honey. You got to write that too. It's supposed to
it's supposed to be the raw stuff that's not processed. But now, my
my um, one of my uncles is a keeper, and I got one
time the raw with the honeycomb chunks in it. Yeah, oh that was
good to eat. Let's pick it up and eat the chunk. And I
was like, oh, right out of the bee's nest. Huh m h
m m. That would do it. Okay, all right, where did
that go? Ah? I wish he had a bit better picture of it
right there, because it's not But I think I see what he's doing.
So okay, wild hog raw honey on a pizza. Yeah, I had
some honey on the pizza before. You know. It's great on the pizza.
Pineapple, No, it's not pineapple. Oh it's so is pineapple,
ham and halapenos. Okay, then you're doing fairly well, so honoring you
know what. I've gotten a little bit better at it by just screwing up
a stuff, so a little bit better. I wish I was. I
wish I was still more better at it. But hey, practice man,
So yeah, you're doing it all about practice. So it is the winder
three D printed, um it is? I assume that it is pepperoni.
Pepperoni's okay to me, don Pepperoni is the best thing to put on pizza.
It being crushed in honey. Okay, okay. I'll usually go with
more mayor and error or sometimes ranch. Ranch is good, pepperoni and ranch
is good. Ha got pineapple on the pizza. Next you'll say you don't
own a truck in Texas. Uh he went there, he did, I
don't want a truck, all right, is it in there? I don't
think it's in there. We were talking about that this weekend a little bit,
but then, um, I needed some whiskey and we didn't really have
cups, so I did you know the backyard cup out of a m plastic
bottle. I was like, all right, I feel like it's sad texting
asked this, But um, I've been flying way too much. Does anyone
have a knife? Oh gosh, yes, but I've been in a in
the air so often now it's I just stopped carrying a knife. Drives me
crazy when I don't have a knife, and when I'm on own a trip
that I oh, I know, but but I just got tired of packing
it unpacking it. I had to toss two of them. Yeah, I've
had to talk one in the past. It's been a long time, but
I have had to do that in the past. So I'm almost getting to
the point where I don't carry a knife these days. It's just I should
put it in my backpacks. But then it's the same problem. But I
do have a slution for that. One. There we go. I get
it. I got it. Nice. It's not the prettiest job I've ever
done, but it's there. That's an acceptable answer. Forty five autos hotburns.
These days, you get a pass in my book heartburn. Yeah,
yeah, okay, But you can't take a multi tool through the airport.
Uh you're not supposed to. No, can't that. Most multi tools do
have a blade on him, right, true? Okay, you know what
I think I'm going to Let's see hold the capacitor with a pair of needle
those pliers in place, one lead on the center conductor and one on the
bottom. Started the center conductor. Okay, yeah, that's easy. That's
this. That's the sky right here, thread the antenna wire started the mail
banana plug connector to the short antenna wire coming down from the full tool.
Oh okay, yeah, let'stall the heat shrink. Okay, good. And
there's a picture of with the zip ties on it, the heat shrink.
There more zip ties over there on the right. That's that there. Okay,
that one's on the side. He's got that one on the side and
stead him on the bottom. Okay, okay, don said I don't fly.
That solves that problem. Well, that's okay. Here's here's a picture
with him using the thread the zip ties. Okay, good, and then
he's got and he's got these spener on the end of it. I love
these speners. These things are great. You can buy these on Amazon.
Pack Tenna uses him. I've got a bag of these in my in my
antenna bag that I keep. Okay, all right, I think I'm gonna
stop here because I stupidly I packed my needle nose stuff for the trip I'm
taking tomorrow and I need some needle nose to hold this guy in place and
to hold this, uh, this capacitor in place as well. So I
think I'm gonna stop there. And uh but the next um, well,
he's got a lot of steps on this. Let's see blah blah blah blah
blah blah. Yeah, I stopped it step No. Fifteen and I've got
to go to step twenty seven, which that those last few steps are pretty
easy, those last couple of steps. Talking about tunning, No, no,
it's just it's just Assembly's well, hold on m the very last one
discord Now that now that the antenna has assembled, the wire will need to
be trimmed according to userspects set up the antenna in check us WR. So
yeah, it says yeah, oh yeah, you need to trim it,
which it didn't tell you how to do it. But that's I mean,
that's okay, that's not the point of the kit. So so yeah,
I see where he's going with this, and yeah, I gotta finish that,
okay. So I gotta get some I gotta get some better tools and
which I have. But like I said, I I didn't even think about
it. I should have thought about that earlier today when I was packing my
stuff in the car. So we're headed to Big Ben National Park tomorrow.
My wife and I are going driving out there for a week, taking the
RV trailer. Are going to camp in an RV park just outside of the
national park. The National Park has very few r V camps sites. You
have to book them like a year and a half or so in advance,
and we didn't. We didn't get to it that quickly. So we're going
to camp outside the park and drive into the park every day. We're gonna
do some hiking. I've got an overland trail I want to try to hit.
But at least one day in fact, she told me earlier day.
She's like, you need to make sure that you take what you need to
activate the park this time. I'm like, oh, yeah, I've already
packed that. So yeah, but awesome wife, he got there. It's
yeah, yeah, she's great. But uh yeah. So what I'll do
is when we come back, I'll bring my tools back and I will This
is a neat This is just a neat looking intent. I just really like
that winder. I don't know why. I just really like that winder.
So and he's got it, Like I said, he's got a version with
ANSO two thirty one. So maybe I'll get that one next time and just
kind of tinker with it and see which one I like better. So what
are the other holes are supposed to be? I don't you know. Some
of them are some of them are for the thread mounting points to the and
the your mask. I don't think so. Some of them are. Some
of them are thread to just kind of hold it, and other ones are
for he's got some zip ties on here, and he's got like these two
right here will hold down you're supposed to put You're supposed to put this banana
plug around you're supposed to put some heat shrink around that banana plug and then
zip tie it to this part, so it's zip tied too to the antenna
there. I probably should have cut that a little bit shorter. Maybe I'll
go back and and modified that here shortly. But but there's that, and
then of course that's a BNC over there. So it's a pretty it's a
pretty standard in fed halfwave antenna design. I don't I've never built one before
where it's two separate magnet wires. Usually you just loop it at the end
and then twist it, you know, electronically, it probably didn't matter one
way the other. So it's just a different design. But um, but
I need to get my needle nose out here so that I can properly finish
this and go from there. You got a super chat, I saw that,
Christiana. Thank you for the super chat, buddy, he says,
uh. She says, I'm sorry, Frank. If you get pineapple onto
pizza where I live in New York City, the Dawn will put a contract
on you as well. The Dawn should pineapple on pizza's fail sauce. So
okay, go Mike, So I asked Mike. I was like, where
is everyone going to Big Bed without me? He's like, because it's the
only place we won't hear you. Well, you're going to Big Ben next
Monday, Mike, as in like tomorrow or a week from tomorrow. I
think he means a week from tomorrow. I assume he means a week from
tomorrow. So yeah, we've been planning this trip for several months. Let
me know what you're planning, Mike, if you're gonna be there, because
we'll be there. We're gonna drive out in tomorrow and we'll be there through
Saturday. We're gonna drive home on Saturday. So another reason not to go
to New York City. You know what, I like New York City.
It's a fun place to visit. Wouldn't want to live there. I mean,
you'd have to offer me a job paying a million a half dollars a
year to live there. But it's a really cool place to visit. Glad.
I'm glad. I've been there three or four times. And let me
send it again here. Um Discord user Kilo Oscar for uniform x Ray Sierra
says that he bought a tank radio coin last Monday or last Friday morning.
Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I believe I'm cut up on
the order so I saw an order command the other day. I haven't sent
to you yet. Well there it is. Yeah, once I get it,
I'll be happy to put it in the mail. I'll send that to
you. I'll try to send that to you tomorrow. So okay, I'm
gonna put all the stuff back in the bag here, so don't lose anything.
Big Bend is a national park I have not been to, and it's
our only national park here in the great state of Texas. Unfortunately, it's
over ten hours away eight and a half, well eight and a half two
Lahitas, which is where we're staying. M soum, Mike, what are
you going down there for? And who are you going with? I didn't
know you're going. We would have, we could have coordinated something, says
swing By who t Ray probably tried to swing by with Mike. Oh cool,
IoT Ray and amp Um. So yeah, this this was This is
a cool This is a cool little antenna. I like, Um, I
should have. I was just really slow and putting it together. But I
will finish it and you guys will see another video. I'll probably do a
video going through the details of how I put it all together and then tuning
it. So is what I'm planning to do with the K six r K
antenna and my car antenna, and I'll do the same thing with this.
But this is, like I said, it's just kind of a neat look
at antenna to put together. So, and he's got two or three other
models on his site, like I said earlier, so it's very possible I'll
pick up one or two more of those and do a build video on those.
And m hmmm. I enjoy builds. I need to get better at
soltering and I need to get better at soldering by doing it. So buy
more kits and put more kids together and you'll get better at soldering. I
got a couple of kids I need to build. You got an all Star
node you really need to build, dude. I'm just saying, yeah,
well you need to get an all Star mode so you can build it and
get on. Okay, I don't have any All Stars. I got the
one that I'm messed up. Yeah, but I've given up Don. Next
time I see Don, I'm gonna give it to him and be like belt
Belton, Don you go onto Belton he can fix. So h. Then
from there I have a d MR node that is currently unplugged and and oh
yeah, that's that's about it. Yeah, well you know those piece those
pie boards are expensive to have just sitting around these days, these days they
are that's for sure, that is for sure. Mike tell Ryan that,
um, he missed it by week he could have We could have all hung
out together if he would have planned it one week earlier. So you put
my sawder on there, turn that off, all right, So you guys
go check out toftiln dot com toughtiln dot com whatever freaking pronunciation, is very
cool website, very cool stuff on there. He's got more than just in
ten as as well. Um just h. He sells Polly stealth wire,
some other stuff, three D printed stuff and coacts some stuff in there.
An tu atu ten tuner um like a whole, like a protection case.
Kind of neat. Here's one. This is kind of cool e f r
w QRP and ten a long wire. So that's kind of neat. The
one that I almost bought, which I was I was meaning to buy the
forty nine to one by almost bought this this uh, this random wire here,
he's got this uh uh, not that one, not that one.
He's got a random wire on here somewhere. I thought a nine to one
random one there it is, Yeah, the random wire transformer nine to one.
So like that's kind of random wires are cool if you got a radio
with a good tuner, which I do, which I do. Sorry I
didn't switch that, but that random wire one right there, that I might
buy that one next time and once I get used to putting this together and
then do that on the on the next one. So what's that random wire
team to? Uh? You know what? I don't know. Um,
so that's a long and that that will also have a counterpoice for of our
My knowledge with friend the nine to ones is they require a COUNTERPOISEE No,
uh, I don't think so, my um My Nelson Nintendo randomire does not
have a counterpoise. Some people put a counterpoints on an Infed half wave sometimes
or sometimes you're your um coax connect as your counterpoise. You r Infed half
Wave says, this is a handmade e f HW antenna with a built in
ninety one is incredible for PoTA soda portable set up an easy in fag Wonder
Farerite is a Toroid f one thirty two mix one hundred what Sideman fifty one
digital Yeah, okay, seventy one feet of wire select assembled with seventy one
feet of wire for fully assembled wire win was seventy one from around an S
clip spener clip So anyway, that one that was probably the next one.
Yeah, I don't think that. No, I don't think a random wire
requires am and then random wire. It's not really random, no there um
but no, But a random wire requires a tuner. It's not resonant anywhere.
That's why it's random, because it's not resonant. And then a forty
meter in fed halfway cut to the correct length will tune forty twenty fifteen and
ten no problems. Ten might be a little bit high, depending on how
the toroys wrapped. But but my pack TENA that might built for me tunes
ten, fifteen, twenty and forty just fine. My spark plug gear in
Tenna that I built, Well, I bought the I bought the thing because
that he done set as a kid. So I bought the thing, and
I put my own wire on it and tuned it for forty It tunes forty
twenty and fifteen just fine. And it's like one point nine to one or
two point zero one one ten, which is totally doable if you have a
radio like I use so um but but yeah, the random wire is cool.
The random Wire says, random Wire is cool. Yeah, good deal,
dude. That's a great YouTube name you got there, so so yeah,
So be watching for this. Go pick up, pick up one of
these antennas, and support Josh out there. Because Um, I'm actually working
on you guys watch my Friday shopping videos. I hope, I hope you
do. Um, I am working on a new shopping video that will be
all about Ham made products. In other words, products that are made by
individuals like you and I, not Yezu, not Knwood, not these guys,
but um but like DX Commander is a prime example. Okay, Callum
builds and markets and sells his own antennas, um Hammade Parts dot com is
one Kadamardi. He builds his own battery boxes and sells him mounts as a
good example of that. So I'm I'm putting together a video that will document
websites where there are non corporation, single user made products. Buy Hams for
Hams for the Ham Radio world can be anything so um but yeah but this
this will this Josh's stuff will be on their person toof TN tough ten and
tend also a tri lamb but yes, yeah, yeah the buddy pull up
tripod. Yeah for sure. Oh anyway, Frank, what's coming up on
your channel this week? Man? Coming up on my channel tomorrow, I
am going to take the Microtech router and we are going to reflash it and
get it working on the amateur radio sub bands and just go through the process
of getting that done. Um, it wasn't that hard. Took me with
recording an hour, but I didn't have to mess with the cameras and all
that stuff. Probably twenty to thirty minutes. It's a tedious process, or
at least it was a Latin three or four years ago. When I did
my first Microtech. It was a tedious process to get that thing flashed.
And it was mostly because you have to use um tiny p XC boot.
It's started trying to boot off the network instead of trying to have a FTP
a file server to accept a flash wrong like some some other devices do.
And I am trying to stall a bit because I want to get a link
to that. Yeah, yeah, I know it's fine. I just for
some reason stumbling trying to get that next up on thank radio. Don Yes
I have. I've talked to Sean about some of his stuff. Great idea,
so yes, for sure. So the video itself is thirteen minutes long,
um, and it's cut down a little bit. But um, I
really didn't mess up a lot um. It was just recordings. I think
if you understand some of the if you're a reasonable attach person, can run
through this pretty easily. There was just one step in the instructions that were
kind of a head scratcher. Go ahead, so Benjamin, he says,
I'm still trying to find the optimal length for ae hundred and thirty six foot
r e f RW. I just put up infed random wire. Is what
that is? Okay, one hundred and thirty six feet should be roughly about
eighty meters. Currently it's about thirty five feet. I'm I'm not getting what
you're saying there. So you set an optimal link for one hundred and thirty
six foot infed random wire. Currently it's thirty five feet. It seems to
two. Okay, everywhere I've just tried. I want to say my Nelson
intent a random wires around seventy one seventy or seventy one feet something like that.
Yeah, random wires. I don't know the length on random wires as
well as I do on infed half waves and off center fed dipoles. So
your infed half wave forty meter in fat halfway should be around sixty five sixty
six feet, and you have to tune it. You have to cut it
and measure it with an analyzer and then make it real long, and then
just keep cutting it down and measuring it with an analyzer. Two you get
where you want, two on forty, and then once it's on forty,
it should If it's a forty nine to one, it should fall in line
at twenty fifteen and ten um. Sometimes it depends on the tour road you
use in. Sometimes it depends on the soil. Yeah, is that close?
Go ahead? Is it close to? What? Uh? Can I
get it close? Within a three to one tuning on that random wire?
So if it's less than three to one on those bands, then majority of
tuners built in will be able to hand correct. Yeah. Yeah, most
of your built in tuners like your IC seventy three hundred the ftd X ten
M. The Zygu tuners are bad ass. They do more than three to
one, but you're you're Yazu, and Icon tuners will do m like a
three up to a three to one mismatch. So I'm gonna take some ben
and droll myself. But yeah, so yeah, Todd says he's using sixty
five point five So the spart plug gear antenna that his hundred watt version.
You just buy the toroid with the connector on it itself. It's all pre
assembled and you add your own wire. And he says to use sixty six
point six feet. It was six six six. I told Mike he should
buy one of these because it's Satan's number. And I put about sixty seven
feet on mine. But I ended up cutting that thing down to like sixty
four point eight sixty four feet eight inches something like that, and I tuned
it. I tuned it in Galveston. Then I took it down to the
parking and used it. And that thing is beautiful on forty twenty and fifteen
and on ten it's a little high. It's a little high, but it
was a less than it was about two foot less than he suggested it would
be. But again, it depends on Sometimes it depends on the toroid they're
using. Sometimes it depends on the ground, the ground soil, where you're
you're sitting and whatnot. But yeah, it's uh, it's just get get
a good intent a tuner. You guys who like nano VNAs, that's fine.
I prefer the rig expert. Get the expert rig expert tuner, and
just freaking start. Get a long ass wire and just start cutting it and
measuring. It's kind of funny, you know. It sounds like it's tedious.
It sounds like I don't know where to go. It's actually kind of
fun. You start cutting, You're like, oh, that looks good.
You cut a little bit more, Oh that looks great. Yeah, it's
kind of funny. Yeah. If you cut off too much, you have
to start over again. Yeah. But this poly stealth stuff is really cool
as well. This uh, this poly stealth wire here. There you go.
That's that's some good wire. Um, Mike likes the soda beams wire.
I think that's correct me if I'm wrong, Mike, but I think
you told me you like the soda beams wire better than the poly stealf wire.
There's I mean, wire is wire. It really depends on how big
of a gauge you want and how heavy you want it to be. A
lot of these soda guys like to use the twenty six and twenty eight gauge
stuff because it's thinner, lighter weight, easier to pack, it's less memory
when you wrap it up and Whatnotum the poly the poly stuff wire, it
says it has no memory, but it kind of does sort of a little
bit. But I think that the I think the soda beam stuff is a
little bit more forgiving than that. Yeah, and the random wire in the
chat says, don't cut it, fold it back. That's good advice.
It's good advice once you get it, once you get it to where you
want it, cut it because then you have to carry less. And you
know, if you're worried about weighting, that kind of stold it back,
it's changing the impedance and it's actually the signals kind of stopping it can that
you're still when you do cut it though, where you find it, where
you like that fold. Don't cut at the fold because you're going to also
change the oppedance. Do like half and then tried it again, and then
if it that, if you still don't like it, you can't keep cutting
to that fold point, right. But if you cut right at that fold,
I had it go the other direction on me because it's chains of the
oppedence as you twist around. So so you know that fold is with the
good point where you want to get to. So start working up to that
fold point. Correct, agreed, agreed, Yeah, what Frank said is
correct. Music to my ears. Well, sometimes you you know, even
a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes. So so Mike says he likes the
soda beams better only because it's yellow. Poly stelt is stronger. Yeah,
it's that's probably true. But that yellow stuff you built on my pack tena,
Mike, that's too. I really like that to that wire, you
know, unless you're going to be like in a really harsh environment. Just
take care of your stuff, man. So and this poly stuff is black,
you know you put this think this stuff up you hanging up thirty forty
feet in the air. You can't freaking see it now. It's kind of
hard to see the yellow Sodomme's wire as well, but it's not as hard
to see as this is this is really hard to see, so people walk
into it and they get clotheslined by it. Whatnot? Dude, I had
a yellow wire with orange flag tape and they just just close lines still walk
in to it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't doubt that
at all. The tech gone getting company that selled on Amazon. I did
buy their wire, and I do like it. It's good. I'll put
it up there be in tech and go yeah, I haven't heard of that.
It's one of those random Amazon named Amazon Amazon no name specials. Yeah,
yeah, get a wire. I wish we knew who made the wire
behind it, just to see who it is, but Amazon, you know
all those mythological Randall keyboard smash names. Yeah. I like that. That
wire that Sean him radio dude put on his infed half wave which was incredibly
flexible no memory wire. I really liked it. And it was like this
um flesh orange color, so it wasn't black, but it wasn't yellow either.
It was kind of like this like this flesh color, you know.
I don't know how else to say. It's like this this this pinkish brown
color something like that, and incredibly flexible wire. I don't know where he
got that. But um, but it's that was you know what I um
bent ben tech Go is what Ape likes. Yeah, I'm sure, Um
it's great. So oh, Mike says, great stuff. So you know
what, that's the cool thing about building multiple intendas. You can have some
with poly steal, some with soda beams, some with ben tech Go,
some with some other crap you never heard of, you know, some with
horse fence that you can do a horse fence intenta wire and then you just
take them all out to the park and use them differently. You can't have
too many antendants. Michael tell you this. He'll agree with me in the
chat. So yeah, it's um, you can't have too many intendants.
It's not possible. But anyway, so Mike, if you go, I
agree with that settlement. The more intendants you have, the better because you
don't know when the one's going to fail. Correct. Yeah. Yeah,
And I have gone to do a PODO. When I first started in Podo,
I went out to a park one time and the antenna I had failed
me. Turns out it wasn't really the antenna. I got home and did
some testing. It was the connector I had. It was it was an
adapter I had. This was when I had a B and C antenna,
but only Peel tifty nine on my on my coact, so I was using
an adapter. But um, yeah, have a spare if you're going to
go all the way out there your battery box I made you has B and
tech go where. Okay, Well, good, well, I'm taking that
to to Big Ben next week, Mike, So it better not fill me.
I'm just saying, I'm sure. I'm sure it's gonna be great.
Mike, go out and purchase one of these. Let me know what you
think about it, because this is I think this is a cool antenna.
So all right, guys, thank you for joining us tonight. Um,
sorry I didn't get to finish. You will see another video or two about
this wire. I will finish it, probably put it on video and then
do a video about tuning the actual wire that goes on the antenna, and
then of course we're gonna do some parks in the air with it, because
that's what the funnest thing in him radio is right now, unless you can
go to a foreign country next time. I just got Josh's email about jumping
on. Oh did he email you? Yeah, I'm not looking at my
email. Twenty minutes ago. I had the email up and I guess it
wasn't Autowe freshmen. Okay, I love to get you on here so we
can critique Jason. Why No, if I had my phone, I would
have saw that. Oh yeah, yeah, there you go. Oh I'm
so sorry, Josh, Josh, if you want to, I don't know
if he's still in the chat or not, but if you want to come
onto a future live stream, we love talking on him radio antennas. We
can never get too much of that, So you are welcome to do that,
work on it and we'll do another stream. Well yeah left off,
Yeah, absolutely absolutely so yeah. Um, in fact, I might order
another one between now and then as well. Um so yeah, casey five
hwbat gmail dot com. Josh hit me up, dude, thank you for
thank you for making a cool product. And um yeah, you can tell
by when you pick this thing up and you look at the parts. He's
he's he's included. Um. I wish his pictures were bigger in the PDF
file, but other than that, you can tell it's really well made.
It's it's it's definitely a definitely a it's well thought out product. I mean,
I'm really I'm not I'm not just making that up. I really think
that. So all right, Frank, Well, um you guys look through
me for me on PODA this week I will be at big Ben National Park
probably activate at least one, if not two or three days. Is that
close or just far enough where I can get you? That's a good question.
I'm gonna start on ten meters. Is still on fire, So I'm
gonna start on ten meters and you and I could probably talk from our homes
on ten meters realistically, So scattered back or well, it's just it's just
a high enough it's just a high enough frequency where it doesn't you know,
it goes. It does groundwave as well as skywave. So um up high
for that? How I want to do my um my fan dive pole.
I think it should hit your house, you radiate your house? Good?
Yeah, good. We're close enough where we probably hear each other anyway.
But um, okay, there's Josh in the chat. More and better photos
Well, your photos are fine? Um more would be yeah, you're there's
nothing wrong with the photos. They're in there in my opinion. But yeah,
a little bit, a little bit more. But yeah, Josh,
hey man, email me. Love to have you on a stream some in
the future. Man, we can talk about more your products. So handmade
products, made in the USA crap is is. I'm all about that kind
of stuff, man, Seriously, seriously, I love made in the USA
stuff. I love handmade stuff. And this is this is a well made
product. So but yeah, put me on your hand alert. Look for
me this week on Poda at least one day, hopefully a couple of days,
I'll be out there and we're gonna activate big big National Park because it's
gonna be fun. So Mike just purchased one. There you go, just
purchased antenna. Of course you did, because this is antenna and Mike's in
the chat. So so if it's a battery or an antenna, you kind
of gotta I mean, you know, Mike's kind of a sucker, you
know, just say antenna or battery on here, I'll go buy one.
Don just order of course Don did. Yeah. Don's a great dude as
well. So hey, guys, thank you for being here tonight. Seriously
fun times um we will get yeah. D X Commander sale is coming up.
Save your pennies order a d X commander this. I think he's gonna
make that go live like Wednesday or Thursday of this week. And he hit
me up yesterday about it, and I'm like, yes, I'm in let
me know, and I said, I'm on vacation this week, but I
don't care. Let me know. I will have access to internet and I
will let you guys know. If you're on my email list, I will
be emailing out my link to everybody. I have sixteen thousand people on my
email list, So if you're not on there, go to ham Radio two
dot com for slash email Dash sign up, sign up on my email list.
I will let that. I will let you know as soon as that
goes live. So, um, a bit of health keeping before we leave,
which next week is Easter Sunday. Yes, okay, yes, so
we will not be streaming next week on Easter Sunday. I usually take Easter
Sunday off and then take next see yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, totally
cool about the same here. Yeah yeah, mom, Mom's beating me over
the head, got it. Take Easter Sunday family family family family, Well,
my family lives two miles that way, so I'm like, I can
go eat lunch and be back in time to live stream, so I could
go to the Poda park and then go see my mom a right right,
totally, totally yeah, yeah, so it's all good, all right,
yeah, so Mike's mind Antenna's Josh is like, hey, thanks Josh,
I hope you got some good sales out tonight. Dude, great Antenna,
thank you for the opportunity. Appreciate you guys being here. We will talk
to you this week on Poda. Please look for me, put me on
your hamlet seventy three. All bye. I just thought it's something to replace
my stream. Bye.