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with coax losses and transformer losses taken into consideration efhw does work. i get same performance from dipole on 20m rg58 as efhw on 10m rg174. some times the ef will be louder, sometimes more noisy. mine gives great swr daytime but can be poor at night. the transformer is potted in resin btw

Estimado. Mr. Viendo. Su. Portátil. No. Lo. Conocía. Pero. Esta. Interesante. También. Me. Gusta. Como. Arma. Su. Antena. Siempre. Todo. Por. El. Amor. A. Las. Comunicaciones. Que. Nos. Apaciona. La. Radio. En. General. Saludos. Desde. Panamá. Veraguas.

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Thank you Peter. So many useful bits of advice. Like politics many people have entrenched views about earthing your shack. You will have got many thinking. Next one on RF earthing could you talk about the “artificial earth” Tnx Dave G4NOW Greenwich

oh no. getting ads now. pensioners cant afford this expensive equipment. id much rather see how to's please than look what we got for sale stuff. if i want to see ads ill got to your ham site. ty but keep the how to's please

I bought old heathkit hw 101 for 150 dollars and after few repairs and such and home made dipole I make contacts on cw and ssb all over the place. minimal costs. and when i was young i had tube receiver and home brew oscillator cost 25 dollars and i made contacts.

Thank you, Peter, for your time presenting practical educational videos,s for the new ham and old-timers like me. There's always something to pick up from watching video presentations. I have tried many verticals, some ground mounted with a minimum amount of radials, ie 16. Using a simple homemade field strength meter at my QTH, which is surrounded by trees concrete and other houses, I have found that most of the time the ground-mounted verticals I have built, on 10,15,20 meters are down around 6 to 9dbs at one halfwave distance from the feed point, one wavelength and three wavelengths were similar. Raising the bottom of a 20-meter vertical from ground level to 5 meters above I gained the 6-9dbs. Wonder what a vertical for 14 Mhz at 16.5 feet will do if mounted on the chimney stack with radials lying on the slates, I, 'll report back when completed, I use the reverse beacon network for checking received signals, it is a very handy tool. VY 73 de JOHN G4YDM

Nice job and as usual Peter a great review. The Icom ID 50E is a bit pricy for my pension I might have to save up some pennies.

I've contemplated getting a 6100, but then I remember I have a Xiegu X1M! I haven't used it that much but when I have it's astonished me somewhat. It cost less than £200 and I bought it just to play with, but I found that it's actually quite a nice piece of kit. I think it only works on 80/40/20/15/10 which means it fits perfectly with my EFHW, working as an inverted V. Needs an external battery though.

Well connection between CW and hedgehogs? Easy - when hedgehogs walk on a floor they sound like CW;)

All very good, very difficult to repair these black boxes and expensive I stay with home-brew.

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Please I would like to know how a line insulator is made that you use near the TRX? Is it done with the Toroid and thread or instead with rail rings on the Coax cable? Thank you IK7JXE

I use them often like yourself. Within the price range these two radios are in, they are amazing radios. For many people it comes does to how they like the user interface. But is there a winner betwen them? Not in what the general user would be able to determine.

interesting ideas to play with, but today the new problem that confronts us now is emf regulation. For those of us with little land it can be a real restriction compared to those with a field at their disposal.

AliExpress to the rescue. Got a pair of theses to adapt my magmount to a Chinese 5.6m telescopic whip. Ideal !

it's not a hidden feature. It's in the manual as well. Makes me wonder how much people know about a rig when they buy or seel (in this case) it.

All good Peter one coil near feed point on your coax is enough on mine. You keep up the practical demonstrations. Vy 73 de John G4YDM

Nice video, been following you for a while, using at the moment the x6100 and also the ic-705 , recently bought a small portable 50W amplifier to pair with them, as for antennas going from self built endfed to a modified PAC12. Just enjoying the hobby and using all i can find or build ! Thank you for the videos and cheers from Italy !

I'm a fan of your channel and would like to know when a 1:1 Unun can be used and how. Thanks!

Have you monitored in a separate receiver?

I always identify with a "slant P" (or M) on the end of my call. Ron W4BIN

Thank you Peter. 🙂 I am still trying to figure out which antenna should be the first one I build or buy when hopefully getting my license next month (German class E). The 10m and 15m are the most interesting ones included in that license and I am currently thinking of either buying hamsticks to build hamstick dipoles for these bands, or either building 2 of these T2LTs. As I am new to the ham radio hobby, I am not really sure which one of those is superior, but I tend to think the T2LT is the better choice as it does not have this compromise of that thin wire coil to allow for shortening the sticks (as the hamstick have) and is has these pure Lamda/4 elements instead. Does that make sense, I mean, would you also consider the T2LT being a better choice than hamstick dipoles? 🤔

Thanks for the videos. i must say when i see the radio being featured is from that country I feel like the little boy who didn't get a bicycle for christmas

Thanks Peter very useful info I owned two X6100s but never got good ssb audio reports? CW and digital excellent 73 Robert G3RCE

My portable is either Ziegu x6100 or ft891 with sotobeams bandspringer on sotobeams telescopic 7m mast or a buddistick antenna or moonraker dedicated 20,17,10m whips for magmount on car, all seem to work well love the x6100 everything in one small package

Great video!! Interesting /sm3uae (sweden)

You need to trim the cable ties either with some flush cutting side cutters or a knife. You'll end up with some nasty cuts without doing this.

Great work

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question please Peter. is the feedpoint of a longwire with coax braid counterpoise same as dipole as in the feed point is current maxima please..and if so its in my best interrest to get 9:1 high as please ?

Still use my trusty FT817 and the MFJ Super Q loop

I often use a Xiegu x5105 with a 35' random wire w/17' counterpoise stretched out on the ground. I like to put a BNC to banana jack coupler directly onto the transceiver's BNC connector. This way I don't have any coax losses, and as long as the tuner can match it, I figure I don't need a balun. That's what makes sense to me, anyway. The Xiegu tuners really are remarkable. And the battery lasts a good long while, although recharging it also takes a good long while.

Hi, Peter. Thanks for the video. I really should invest in some ferrite. Can you post a link to the one you use? Whilst I'm at it, i could do with something for the house TV aerial lead :-). Cheers, Chris 2E0FRU

Great video mate, and always interesting to see how others are enjoying the hobby. 73 zl3xdj

Nice video as usual. Since I use an car to get out portable I can carry a bit more weight. My rig of choice is a Yaesu FT 891, LDG ATU, Bioenno 15AH battery and an EF 9:1 antenna. I carry wire for 29ft, 41ft and 71ft to fit what room I have at the location I choose. If no trees are available I have a 30' push-up fiberglass mast. The radio, tuner, antennas and battery all fit in a carry case but the push-up has to be carried separately. If I ever get up to speed with CW I would consider a lower wattage radio. Thanks for the great videos. Steve, K7OFG

Wondering why you were using those slightly odd frequencies?

Nice Video Peter. 🙂

Thanks for posting this video and sharing your experience Peter. Glad to see you are using very little power. That's my situation and I found this video very encouraging. VK5WB uBitx v2 , Chinese 10W autotuner (works well), EFHW and vertical 1/4 wave on f/g squid pole. Least expensive set up Cheers

"Best HF portable" is a bit like "Best car" - it depends on what you want to achieve, weight, whether you have a car with you etc. My lightweight is a TX-500 with the BP500 battery pack and either a Palm key or for digimodes a Raspberry Pi-W and digirig and a Chelegance 750 antenna and the radio fits in a custom small case from Windcamp. I can carry that easily and if I need I can take 60W solar panel with me and plug that directly into the radio (it can charge with up to 50v) If I need a tuner I have a MAT-10 ATU in the same case. I've built my own cables. That is a low quiescent power system and if I want to I can add on a 50W PA but that is more weight plus either a 7Ah or 18Ah LifePo battery. I need the car - you can't carry that. If I want I can take 10m of wire on a SOTAbeams winder and a 64:1 Spark Gap Unun rather than the 750. If I'm in the car I use a drive-on mount with a 12m Spiderpole and a MAT-40 ATU end fed random wire for the higher bands or an inverted Vee for 40m and an FT-857 and a 3 element 2m beam or 6ele 70cm beam. If I want it really compact I have the 817 with a Wonderwand and speech compressor. Or I can use a QDX with a Pi for small digimodes setup. If I had an RV I could have a kW and all sorts of antenna stashed away. SOTA guys are running kits that weigh almost grammes ... It really comes down to what you can carry and what you want to achieve.

Why aren't you using the Elecraft KX3?

I generally use a vertical EFHW and work lots of East Coast USA and EU stations running 50W with an FT-710 on the beach in So California....73, W6QR

A good choice Peter. My choice is the Xiegu G90 and the PAC-12 portable antenna. Normally QRP, but 20W gets you out of jail!

Regarding location. First a low noise location but as important a location with great conductivity. old metal bridges, concrete with rebar in it or anything of long metal. Testing can be done by driving or walking across the location and noting the increase in noise and signal. In places with low ground conductivity, Ive see as much as a 10Db increase driving over a bridge.

Nice video Peter, which portable paddle are you getting in?

The two last videos looks shouted in a wrong gamma or/and colorspace. Standart is REC709. Here I bet special gamma curve or/and HDR mode is used. Without putting it in BT709 somwhere in post prod you'll have whashed colors grey low lights, bad skins tones...

Hi Peter,my go to portable gear is still my ftdx10,slidewinder coil with chameleon 17ft whip and a magic carpet.also my trusted 40-10m efhw on a cheap 7m pole strung out.

Great video, many thanks!! Robert K5TPC

The David Attenborough of Ham Radio

The pl-880 is great