Episode 403 - Tracy McKim - VE3TWM
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Tracy McKim, VE3TWM, believes in the effectiveness of low power communications to communicate across town or around the World. Tracy uses his YouTube Channel, Outdoors On The Air, to first demonstrate the use of fiberglass poles to install wire antennas, and then to successfully demonstrate outdoor ham radio operation using those full size antennas to operate QRP single-sideband. VE3TWM is my QSO Today.
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Outdoors On The Air - YouTube Channel Hometown: Burlington, Ont Friend: Randy, VE3OZR First License: 1991, Age 30, Basic with Morse Code Current Rig: Yaesu FT-991A All Band Transceiver Yaesu FT-891 Multiband Transceiver Yaesu FT-897D Multiband Transceiver Yaesu FT-817ND (Favorite rig) - it is tiny, all band, and runs forever on batteries Ground Plane Vertical Antenna 40-10 Field Antennas: Tim, N9SAB, Dipoles Mini Wyndham Antenna Off Center Fed Dipole Antenna Linked Dipole Antenna TERMS US Forces in Germany Grundig RF260U Table Radio ShortWave Listening WWV - NIST Radio Station BBC World Service Archer Space Patrol Base Station Citizens Band (CB) Channel 14 CB Net Smokey and the Bandit, Movie Radio Shack Store Radio Shack Project Kit Paper Delivery Route Burlington, ONT, Community College, Electronics Engineering Technology Sales Profession Minor Baseball Coach Coaching Techniques for Baseball Intel Building Har Hotzvim, Jerusalem Israel Parks on the Air Code Quick CW Training CQ Magazine 73 Magazine QST Magazine Telescopic Fiberglass Pole End-Fed Wire Antenna Boy Scouts of Canada Canadian Adventure Scouts CQ Worldwide SSB Contest Yaesu FT-817 HF/VHF/UHF Transceiver Par End-Fed Antenna Random Wire End-Fed Antenna Resonant End-Fed Antenna Call of the Wild, by Jack London Ticks and Lyme Disease Icom IC-7410 HF Transceiver Greatest challenge facing amateur radio now: loss of spectrum by other services, real estate prices block home ownership to young people. Excited most by: variety of operating interests, affordability of ham gear, increased interest in HF portable operation. Advice to new or returning hams: join your national association for spectrum defense, join your local club if they are encouraging and active, you don’t need the latest and greatest gear to enjoy ham radio, and focus on antennas.
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Yaesu FT-991A All Band Transceiver
Yaesu FT-891 Multiband Transceiver
Yaesu FT-897 Multiband Transceiver
Yaesu FT-817 Portable All-Band Transceiver
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