This video clip was shot by my friend Bob, KC2RDU. It shows me making a low power (QRP) contact to a ham in NC from our club’s annual hamfest in NJ. This was…
June 15, 2013.
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Good stuff! Enjoy the hobby! Lots “O” stuff you can do! 73’s from KC2RDU
Hey – I recognize that guy on the 703!
And has his own pretty good youtube channel!
Thanks for the video, was there, it was my first hamfest and I really had a
great time. Thanks for that!.
Jerome – Glad you had a great time! I sure did! Even Mrs RW! Hope to see
you soon.
neato! im gonna get my lic. soon ..peace to u from oklahoma city
RVRC 2013 Hamfest Highlights #hamradio
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
wow… 5 watts… but thats one kicken antenna…
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.
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.
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 🙂
haha good stuff.
KC2RDU? I know that guy. He the one who drives around in that old, noisy,
car!
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.
Where are you at in Jersey ????
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.
I seen that guy behind the tower truck…yeah thats me.
The hamfest location where this video was shot was in Piscataway. I live
about 10 minutes from there.
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?
I’ve used it for a couple of jumpers, so far, so good.
Nice contact with 5 watt qrp
Excellent setup!