Low Power (QRP) Ham Radio contact at the 2013 RVRC Hamfest in NJ

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   Radio wild says:

   February 20, 2014 at 11:49 AM

   Good stuff! Enjoy the hobby! Lots “O” stuff you can do! 73’s from KC2RDU

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   w2aew says:

   February 20, 2014 at 11:39 AM

   Hey – I recognize that guy on the 703!

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   Radio wild says:

   February 20, 2014 at 10:41 AM

   And has his own pretty good youtube channel!

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   Jerome Quelin says:

   February 20, 2014 at 10:18 AM

   Thanks for the video, was there, it was my first hamfest and I really had a
   great time. Thanks for that!.

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   Radio wild says:

   February 20, 2014 at 9:34 AM

   Jerome – Glad you had a great time! I sure did! Even Mrs RW! Hope to see
   you soon.

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   billybonewhacker says:

   February 20, 2014 at 8:35 AM

   neato! im gonna get my lic. soon ..peace to u from oklahoma city

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   Surinder Bali says:

   February 20, 2014 at 7:43 AM

   RVRC 2013 Hamfest Highlights #hamradio 

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   DarkStarPDX says:

   February 20, 2014 at 7:31 AM

   It’s amazing what you can do with 5 watts. From my 2013 Field Day site in
   Oregon I had no issues contacting the east coast on SSB (mostly 20 meters)
   using a 136 foot doublet. Next year I’ll probably get a dedicated 20 meter
   beam and run a 80/40 inverted-vee dipole. 73, Chris – KU7PDX

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   Joe Allen says:

   February 20, 2014 at 7:11 AM

   wow… 5 watts… but thats one kicken antenna…

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    kd1s says:

    February 20, 2014 at 6:26 AM

    A lot of people completely forget that little thing in Part 97 about power
    levels, E.g. the MINIMUM necessary parts. I’m guilty of this too – I’m
    within reach of a ton of UHF and VHF repeaters and I just plug the full 5W
    into them. My two radios can only go as low as 300mW.

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    Mike Tranchemontagne says:

    February 20, 2014 at 6:07 AM

    oh good, it was just wasting space at my place. I think I must have got it
    at Radio Shack, when I worked there in the 70s and was doing CB base
    station installs.

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    Jacob Hipps says:

    February 20, 2014 at 5:40 AM

    Would be awesome to be able to pick up one of those decommissioned TV
    remote vans with the extending mast antenna! What sort of gain do you
    reckon you all had from your setup? I remember when I was living in Atlanta
    a few years back, the local WSB channel 2 news remote van left their mast
    fully extended and hit a HV transmission line, wreaking all sorts of havok!
    Whoops! (google: “wsb van power line”). Anyway, looks like you all had some
    fun– cheers 🙂

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    David Kirwan says:

    February 20, 2014 at 4:50 AM

    haha good stuff.

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    Radio wild says:

    February 20, 2014 at 4:38 AM

    KC2RDU? I know that guy. He the one who drives around in that old, noisy,
    car!

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    SeanBZA says:

    February 20, 2014 at 3:56 AM

    Seen the same with a mobile crane with both a failed interlock and a
    leaking hydraulic block, which erected itself while travelling, and found
    the 132kV line at the top of a hill. Needed a bit of welding of a tip and
    fixing of the 2 faults.

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    joe black says:

    February 20, 2014 at 3:31 AM

    Where are you at in Jersey ????

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    Jim Griffiths says:

    February 20, 2014 at 3:16 AM

    I once ‘accidentally’ contacted an airport 22 miles away using a crappy
    10mW home-made transmitter with a couple of 2N3904 transistors connected to
    a piece of speaker cable (as the antenna). It’s amazing how sensitive
    receiver equipment is nowadays.

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    Brian Boccardi says:

    February 20, 2014 at 3:16 AM

    I seen that guy behind the tower truck…yeah thats me.

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    w2aew says:

    February 20, 2014 at 3:08 AM

    The hamfest location where this video was shot was in Piscataway. I live
    about 10 minutes from there.

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    Mike Tranchemontagne says:

    February 20, 2014 at 2:56 AM

    nice contact! say did you ever find a use for that rg-8 I gave you? I had
    it for probably decades, was it any good?

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    w2aew says:

    February 20, 2014 at 2:00 AM

    I’ve used it for a couple of jumpers, so far, so good.

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    HPDpvtcaboose says:

    February 20, 2014 at 1:40 AM

    Nice contact with 5 watt qrp

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    FrozenHaxor says:

    February 20, 2014 at 1:28 AM

    Excellent setup!

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