Dipole in the Park- Portable HF, 2-21-2010 (W6ELI)

HF Portalbe using FT-857D (@ 50W), G5RV Dipole on Battery Power

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HF
• Portalbe
• FT-857D
• G5RV
• Dipole
• Battery
• Power
• Amateur
• Radio
• Ham

[kc2vso]

What battery were you useing...im going to do portable work next week....

[W6ELI]

@kc2vso UB1280 (12v 8Ah). there is a good picture of it toward the end of the video.

[W6ELI]

I used the tuner prior to operating at full power. The meter was used just to monitor the battery's condition.

[W6ELI]

The device on top of the radio is an inline Volt/Amp/Watt meter. An LDG Z-11Pro antenna tuner. The battery can be bought at Ace hardware

[W6ELI]

I love the 857! Highly recommended. I also like the FT-450AT, cheap but solid. On the more expensive side the IC-7000 is awesome. There are important power considerations. As you saw you can power the 857 with a small battery. The 7000 requires direct connection to a running car battery and and an mfj voltage booster for me, otherwise voltage drop prevents getting full power. I have not tried the 450 as a mobile (yet...).

[W6ELI]

I used the RG-58 for convenience. You can go directly to the tuner.

[covertoperations1000]

yeeeeeehaaaaa

[kd5owo]

Excellent video, I am going to get the 857D for mobile. Going to try to mount it in such a way so that it isn't hard to take out and use portable.

[carriecakes1968]

Its a watt's up meter by powerwerx

[ez2curanut]

nice setup. Where did you get the inline Volt/Amp/Watt meter, and what model # is it?

Thnaks for sharing this video. JimmyG

[pu3big]

Is Very good!!!!! Congratulations.

[redman840]

With propagation that well,especially on 12 meters you probably could have done well with even 5-10 watts.I do portable ops.here in Ariz. with my IC-703+ @ 10watts PEPoutput and have done very good.Thanks for the nice video.73!..W7KB.