Hello Northern Ireland (2022.09.12)

in OCD • 9 months ago

Today I made a QSO (a two-way radio contact) with MI0AIH David from Cookstown, Northern Ireland on 14.260 MHz. The distance is 2047 km.

At first, I barely heard him calling CQ (general call), just above the noise, but later his signal strength went up (to 52). He heard me properly (he gave me a 57 signal report).

My equipment:
Radio (transceiver): Yaesu FT-450D.
Antenna: 30 meters long wire antenna in the garden, approximately two or three meters above the ground.
My QTH (the location of my radioamateur station): Tiszasüly, Hungary.

Have a nice day. All the best. Greetings and much love from Hungary.

https://www.youtube.com/wqatch?v=XrW2yvRuUzc

#life #lifestyle #technology #hobby #radioamateur #ham #radio #shortwave
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         9 months ago 

        Which output power did you use? I think it's a good result considering such low height of your antenna! Do you use any tuner between your transceiver and antenna?

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              I used and I usually use 100 Watts. The Yaesu FT-450D has a built-in ATU (Automatic Antenna Tuner). I am regularly using that. I have good experience with it. It can tune a lot of things, including a random length of wire. I am using it with this 30 meters long wire antenna. It can tune this wire antenna on any radioamateur band between 1.8 MHz and 50 MHz.

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                     9 months ago 

                    Oh iit's great! My fault i've forget that 450D has it's own tuner...

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