I love QRP! I've had more fun with my FT-817ND and mini Buddipole antenna than anything else in amateur radio. Get out in the fresh air with my dog and enjoy radio!
QRP Rules i have to Run QRP due to licence restrictions hear in the uk but i get good results with 5w/10w and all my antennas are home built Great vidieo
Hola amigo muy bueno el radio pero ¿se pueden escuchar bandas comerciales? ya sea radio nederland,internacional de china,nhk japón en las bandas hf,adios.
Do you have any information about the antenna you used and what your SWR was? I didn't see that your meter was set to SWR but would have been curious to see how you did. Great contact, did you continue to work the other stations in the pile up? How far did you make it?
if you have the opportunity and any interest try a fullwave 40m loop horizontally polarized.you might be amazed.its a big antenna but the best set of "ears"i've ever made.yet to make an antenna that surpassed it on the recieve end.anyway,i like your ten tec also,you have some great rigs,be interesting to see inside your shack/station 73
yeah,respectable but arguable on the "pileup"given you were on a net....still,my uncle has owned an 817 for years and raves about it.its definately a good radio in the right hands(as are all of yaesu's radio's).during the last solar peak he made contacts w/germany using miiliwatts.alot of it is antnenna and propagation i think.NICE job! good luck and good DX O.M!
Yes, I will concede that it was not a "traditional" way of getting a bunch of stations to call, however, it is a plie up none the less. The idea was not so much to be claiming to have created a pile up, but rather what it sounds like to be on the receiving end of one period. An experience that many of us in North America do not enjoy regularily.
Great little radio, I wish more people would go QRP. A lot of stations just use overkill, I often hear EU stations using a KW, and they hear me just fine with a few watts on a magnetic loop. What's your ant there, or is that a secret? ;)
Right now I'm restricted to 10m operation with a converted 11m rig. The loop is constructed entirely from 50ohm coax. Google "magnetic loop" for more, they're all the same. I've even used a short length of coax as the (normally expensive) tuning cap with mine, a lot of cut and try, but tuned nicely for roughly 28.5mhz.
I love QRP! I've had more fun with my FT-817ND and mini Buddipole antenna than anything else in amateur radio. Get out in the fresh air with my dog and enjoy radio!
Life is too short not to try QRP
KenwoodTS480HX 1 month ago
On 40m that's good!
N2RRAny 2 months ago
Great stuff!
G4AKC 5 months ago
QRP Rules i have to Run QRP due to licence restrictions hear in the uk but i get good results with 5w/10w and all my antennas are home built Great vidieo
look me up on youtube
1SoundBlaster 6 months ago
QRP is the way to be.
I want a 817 now lol
73 de W6CSA
W6CSAhamradio 1 year ago
Hi very good friend the radio but what can be heard trading bands? either radio nederland, China International, NHK Japan in the hf bands, goodbye.
rodriampuero 1 year ago
Hola amigo muy bueno el radio pero ¿se pueden escuchar bandas comerciales? ya sea radio nederland,internacional de china,nhk japón en las bandas hf,adios.
rodriampuero 1 year ago
I like QRP too.
I have an Elecraft KX1 for QRP (CW only), an Original Vibroplex Bug key and a Hy-Gain 14AVQ vertical antenna. That's it!
73 es many DX
YV5HUJ 1 year ago
Do you have any information about the antenna you used and what your SWR was? I didn't see that your meter was set to SWR but would have been curious to see how you did. Great contact, did you continue to work the other stations in the pile up? How far did you make it?
redmartian 1 year ago
Wow really nice! I wish I could get that sort of pileup!
lordtapdoles 2 years ago
FT817 can really kick .- ... ...
lion45king 2 years ago
ture pile up in a lot of videos here like this don't have the person talking to them in causing the pile up great job
tkdteen2 2 years ago
if you have the opportunity and any interest try a fullwave 40m loop horizontally polarized.you might be amazed.its a big antenna but the best set of "ears"i've ever made.yet to make an antenna that surpassed it on the recieve end.anyway,i like your ten tec also,you have some great rigs,be interesting to see inside your shack/station 73
revoluketion 2 years ago
yeah,respectable but arguable on the "pileup"given you were on a net....still,my uncle has owned an 817 for years and raves about it.its definately a good radio in the right hands(as are all of yaesu's radio's).during the last solar peak he made contacts w/germany using miiliwatts.alot of it is antnenna and propagation i think.NICE job! good luck and good DX O.M!
73,DE KV7M
revoluketion 2 years ago
Yes, I will concede that it was not a "traditional" way of getting a bunch of stations to call, however, it is a plie up none the less. The idea was not so much to be claiming to have created a pile up, but rather what it sounds like to be on the receiving end of one period. An experience that many of us in North America do not enjoy regularily.
Thank you.
PortableQRP 2 years ago
i have 2 ft 817,s and are very pleased of them
qrp is really fun
OZ4ACK 2 years ago
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Radio good for dildo....
strncl 3 years ago
PW: the whip antenna it comes with is only good for 2m & 70cm. It might also work on 6m but not very well.
vk3ye 3 years ago
Great little radio, I wish more people would go QRP. A lot of stations just use overkill, I often hear EU stations using a KW, and they hear me just fine with a few watts on a magnetic loop. What's your ant there, or is that a secret? ;)
G0IFI 3 years ago
The antenna that I use most with this radio on 40m is an end feed dipole made by Par Electronics about 13 feet above the ground.
I am in the process of building some magnetic loops and have a great interest in them. Please tell me more about your loop.
VE3UK
PortableQRP 3 years ago
Right now I'm restricted to 10m operation with a converted 11m rig. The loop is constructed entirely from 50ohm coax. Google "magnetic loop" for more, they're all the same. I've even used a short length of coax as the (normally expensive) tuning cap with mine, a lot of cut and try, but tuned nicely for roughly 28.5mhz.
G0IFI 3 years ago
tell me, is the whip antenna it comes with any good at all for HF?
PeerlessWonder 3 years ago
oooh, i love my 817 too.
Polybun 3 years ago
Is that 3905 net?
kc9mav 3 years ago
viva el qrp !!!!!!!!! qrp live !!!!!!!!
lu5ddx 3 years ago