Buddipole 10M Yagi + Icom IC-7000 + = DX FUN!

I was able to contact T32C on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean (not the Indian Ocean as I narrated in my video), with an Icom IC-7000, battery power via a Sears Diehard jump-start battery, with 21 watts portable into a Buddipole (10m Yagi) set up, man it really works!. 5200 miles, not to shabby! Not quite QRP either, but I'll take it.

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• T32C
• DXpedition
• Buddipole
• Yagi
• 10m
• Icom
• IC-7000
• QRP
• DX
• KD8OPI
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• radio

[goathiker]

We put up the same antenna and had the same results running 5-watts in the ARRL 10m 'test. Of course we were sitting on a 9000' mountain. None the less a good antenna and some great propagation goes a long ways making ham radio really FUN!

[kd8opi]

@goathiker Yup! In late October, I had a s5-s7 qso with Wyoming, running one watt or less on both ends (0% power on my ICOM 7000) with the buddi-yagi, it lasted for 4 minutes. Is it weird I found that so thrilling??

[kd6kvl]

T32C is Christmas Island in the Pacific, East Kiribati.

Still good DX from Dayton!

73,

KG6N

[kd8opi]

@kd6kvl Thanks, apologies... I corrected myself in the text when I posted this. I need to learn how to put up those "oops" text bubbles. It was pretty cool DX, I had heard them the day before, same set up, and couldn't get in. I tuned to the same freq the day I made the vid, and I caught them right when they started. I'll take good luck every time.

[G0IFI]

Nice job. Rule of thumb with yagis is *about* 3 db per element over a dipole, up to a point where extra directors have less effect on overall gain. Those claiming 8db gain would use the theoretical isotropic radiator as a reference. Your ERP was therefore about 40 watts.

[ve3cnu]

Cool vid. I have the Buddipole too but not as a yagi. I use a IC-7000 also for my portable ops. This is too much fun! Keep the videos coming!

[VictoreCelia]

the budipole on the form of a 2 element yagui it´s great...

Nice qso...

73