I think everyone should be able to throw together a effective portable or emergency setup. Here's a video of mine for those looking for ideas. The antenna is a compromise but it takes up very little space and requires no tuner. With the state of things in the world we need to all have a go box or 2 in my opinion. The video is kinda long so forward to the end part and see me make a contact. I would encourage anyone who is into this to make videos of this as well to get people active and help them learn. 73
I really wish if your going to shot video do not shot it in portrait mode , always use landscape mode.....who ever told people to use the portrait mode to shot vid should be hung up by the .........
Feel free to make a better video. I'm using my phone and I'm not a professional. The name quick in dirty should be a indicator... and it's "shoot" not shot. Lol. The s10e was in landscape mode. The only change I could have made was used the wide angle second camera. That zooms out a bit much . Get out there and make some portable videos. Or maybe make videos on how to shoot videos. Instead of complaining, be part of the change that you want to see. Good luck. 73
quit trying to push your ideas onto other peoples work . I shoot landscape a lot if it suits me better.
I agree. Can you elaborate on what antenna you're using in the video: make and/or model? Obviously screws into a mag mount but I can see potential other deployment possibilities. Thanks
It's the super antenna mp1c, 40-2m . I bought it for $159 from hro a few years ago. I prefer this one because the others they offer come with non adjustable titanium whip. This comes with a telescopic whip that can be used alone to cover 2m or 440. I have seen people use these as a rotatable dipole on a bracket I don't own 2 of them but I do have experience doing this with hamsticks and it seems to work quite well. So I imagine if you put these up in a dipole configuration you could have a rotatable dipole. Their website seems out dated. They aren't silver anymore. But here's a link http://www.newsuperantenna.com/MP1-SuperStick-Portable-Vertical-Antenna-Deluxe/ Also hro has info. It's apparently $139 now and sold out for that version. It's offered in multiple different kit forms some quite expensive quite expensive so if you want a fancy gig bag and a tripod and the 80 m and 60 m coil and the 2 m super plexer you can spend quite a bit of coin. Hro link https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015352
I see it as $219 on Amazon today. And HRO has it listed at $139, but out of stock. I wonder why such a disparity. As far as I can tell, both listings are for the antenna alone, no bag, no tripod, etc...
That's right...Amazon seems to do that on everything now. Radios always cost more than hro or dx or giga parts on Amazon. Hro probably has one of the other versions. Yep 219 for a clamp and bag and extra whip? I don't think it's worth the difference. For me I wanted it to fit in the go box. So the bag was useless for me. Many people say the wolf river stuff is good or comparable. My experience is with full size loops and dipoles and hamsticks and outbacker copies and homebrew stuff. A Texas bug catcher might be good if it will break down small enough
I had one of those antennas but in the video I don't see that you put the ground cables or does the iron pot work for you as ground? another thing friend buy an antenna analyzer to not walk so much and make things easier 73
No radials on 20m. They would help but the barrel is good enough. I have a analyzer however it helps to not stand by the antenna while adjusting it. It will read wrong.
the same when placing the ground cable it lowers the noise and increases the reception and transmission and lowers the swr..nice videos73
