Yaesu FT-450 Running 25 Watts

The Yaesu FT-450 is an exceptional transceiver for portable low-power work when using battery power. The radio was being powered by a 12 volt, 33 Ah battery. The antenna used was a 40 meter dipole hoisted up about 15 feet on a painter's pole.

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• FT-450
• Portable HF
• Yaesu Radio

[QRPisFun]

Happy New Year Will!  Will-dumb question if I may..how did you mount that painters pole? I presume it is like a piece of angle iron with U-bolts?

73-Chuck

[AI4QT]

@QRPisFun. Happy New Year, Chuck. re painter pole-- I just ground-mounted the painter pole with the green stake--- i just shoved the grand stake into the ground a few inches, and the ends of the 40 meter dipole, tied to insulators and trees do the rest :-)

[FGsltw2009]

I am a fairly new ham and I just ordered the FT450AT from HRO. I hope it performs as well as yours. Will be putting up a windom 80-6 meter antenna. Maybe I can talk to you sometime. I am in GA. KJ4WKO

[AI4QT]

@FGsltw2009. It would be a pleasure to QSO with you. I am mainly on 40 meters (around 7200) when near the radio and at night will check into the AL Net, TN Net, and the GA Net on Sunday afternoons. Hope we can tag up!!! 73 from AI4QT

[FUNNYTOM10]

@FGsltw2009 i have the exact same ft450at + carolina windom cws-80 but cant get it to work on 80m + 15m which really is a pain! How did you solve that ? Best 73´s OE3TWB

[KatzOhki]

Great video. I think this video has convinced me to save up for the 450D for my next HF radio, which I really need cuz my old 20$ HF rig finally gave up. Now to just save up the money.

[AI4QT]

I’m just trying to keep up with ya!!!

You have editing down as an art form!!!

[AI4QT]

Thanks Doc. Now with the sun at my QTH at such a low angle (the sun is hidden behind a hill), I'm unable to charge my batteries during the day-- I could go down to curbside for full-sun, but I don't want to risk dropping the panels along the way--BUT I would, if I really needed a charge. There are several of these batteries I have, so they would last several days, maybe a week before I would have to consider other power sources. I picked up the solar panels at the local H. Freight. Later, Wil

[USNERDOC]

Forgot to mention . . . great editing!

[USNERDOC]

What a treat to come home from night shift and find an AI4QT video in my subscription queue! Very cool . . . I could watch that all day. Great set of QSOs and thanks for sharing! I would love to see more of the portable solar charging system . . . I might have missed that so will have to check your prior videos. 73!