Love the videos and love your enthusiasm. Well done Walt. 73, George K2WO

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much George! 73 K4OGO

Hello Walt Thank you for sharing with everyone, your useful experience. Which in our case, very simple or let's say plug and play. This makes our hobby, all around the world, more and more popular. As a result, we have G90s, like me, you and many other amateurs. 73, Alexandr ES1MER, from Nordic Europe.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Alexandr! 73 from the Atlantic Coast of the USA!

Got to love those quick to deploy verticals! Easy peasy!

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Yes quick and easy!

Super video Walt! Thanks for getting this one together and sharing! Love it! Nicely done. 👍📻⚡

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words!!!!

Great job again Walt!

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Tim! I’ll be over in Europe in a few days hunting for you on the bands!

Thanks Walt. I enjoy your channel.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

You have some very interesting antenna video's, thanks! 73 from The Netherlands.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! 73, Walt

Love 1/4 wave vertical when portable!!!! Run one at the home qth as well. Simple antenna with decent performance.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed!

Hi Walt. Really nice video and thanks for making it.😀

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Paul!

Walt - great job!! "Antennas by random parts"!

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! hahaha yep, kinda like Grandma's pot luck soup, just through what ya got in the kitchen in it and it comes out good!

Gotta love the G90.. great contacts on the wire... another fantastic video.. thx for sharing you ham radio skills... k0klb

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much my friend!!

Always great to see what you're building next. As a fairly new Technician Class I'm always learning. You are motivating me to get my General. Miss Norfolk area. 73s

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

10 ай бұрын

Go get that General!!!! 73 my friend!

KEWL Activation. I have that antenna in my bag also, works Great. Also carry a EFHW and a NorCal Doublet.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm headed to Europe for work and will be there a couple months. I have an EFHW packed! 73 K4OGO

Nice location and good works...

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’m lucky to live near such a great spot

Uncle Walter R O C K S. I will never forget our 1st portable to portable Contact we had earlier this Year. 💯👍👍👍🙋‍♂️

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Me too Uncle G it was awesome! I’ll be in Poland in a few days and will be looking for you on the bands! 73 my friend!

@DK5ONV

Жыл бұрын

@@COASTALWAVESWIRES Good moring UW. Those are good News and i will try to catch the Train (my Bike) to get to one of my portable Radio Places. I am in progess to move to a new Place to live just a few Blocks around the Corner from my old Place. A fatass Heatwave hit my Location again, yesterday 102°F in the Day and 86°F at Night. Today 96°F and the Humidity is as high as the Mt. Everest. We just sweating like Pigs from doing nothing. I am looking forward to chat with you via Airwaves. Happy mid of the Weekday & 73 de YFUG🙋‍♂️🍻

Thanks for the video and inspiration to put one of these together. I picked up the "Red Fox" version of your "Breeze" carbon fiber telescoping fishing pole from Amazon. A tip for those that purchase carbon fiber poles: some of these poles will interact with the vertical wire in a pretty severe way when the wire runs alongside the rod. In my case, a 16.5' wire that was taped to the vertical pole was resonant at about 11 (!) MHz and not ~14 MHz as it should be. So, I leaned the pole over (drove a tube into the ground to hold it) by about 30 degrees from vertical and hung the wire from the end of the pole like a crane lifts a load. Resonance at 14 MHz achieved! With 4 quarter wave radials [I don't have an ocean nearby ;)], I was able to work VT, IA, and WI from my yard in TN at 20W on my Xiegu G90 at an SWR < 1.5 during testing. A very portable setup and I look forward to activating some parks on POTA and maybe just play radio while on vacation... 73...

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Good info, thanks for commenting. 73 de K4OGO

@Adam-qd8jh

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was having the same issue. I attached my 16.5’ speaker wire to the most flexible piece at the top and it bent just enough to keep the wire away from the pole. When I had my wire taped to the pole I was getting an swr of 8 but afterwards my swr dropped back down to 1.3 from the beginning of the band and 1.8 at the far end

Hi Walt, very similar to my set-up here in the back streets of Dover UK! I've a home brew designed vert, but for 7mhz (but it will also tune on 14mhz) mine is ten turns of 3mm (outside dia. plastic coated multi-strand) on 2" plastic water pipe. Then four metres above the base loading coil. Just random length radials and earth stakes. All over Europe on just 10W!

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!

Awesome! And that was my plan b if I couldn’t get a hold of a telescopic whip.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Excellent plan B, I really enjoyed your video today!!!!

@LB0FI

Жыл бұрын

@@COASTALWAVESWIRES Thanks!

Another fun video. A great ham radio location with a simple antenna. 73 WA6MOW

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Alan! 73 K4OGO

Add some floating radials by tying some wine bottle corks onto copper wires so they float on the surface, 3-5 bits of wire about 5m long with a few corks on each.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Great idea!

REALLY APPRECIATE all your vids starring the G90. I'm ordering one soon for POTA/SOTA/field ops and want to know what battery you like and do you recommend the Mars Mod. Keep the videos coming.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Mine has the Mars mod, it’s easy and safe. I like my little LifePo4 6aH battery. Perfect size and lasts for hours.

Great to see you giving the g90 some love ❤😊. Questions: Why should someone buy an Fx-4cr over a g90? And would you ever part with your Fx-4cr?

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

10 ай бұрын

Honestly if I had to pick one I would buy the G90 over the FX-4CR. No I wouldn't part with my FX-4CR, it is also a great little radio and very compact for portable ops. It all comes down to that internal tuner in the G90 giving it the edge. other than that it's a toss up between the two.

Walt, great job as always! Can you share links for the fishing rod and the banana clip?

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Just added links to the pole and clips in the description of the video.

free salt water amplifier never fails. good activation 73s!

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 73, K4OGO

G'day Walt, love your videos mate. Hey a question about this antenna.... what was the SWR with this set up? I do a similar thing up here with 2 raised radials and a 17ft whip, SWR 1:1, right across the 20M band. I definitely want to throw the radial(s) into the ocean. Thanks for posting the video mate. 73. Simon

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Simon. SWR on this is about the same, 1:1 across the band from 14.250 to 14.347. You will be amazed at the effect of operating with the radials in saltwater. 73! Walt K4OGO

Walt great video, i would love to know the name of the short music track at the start of your videos ? Keep the videos coming.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Anthony, that track was done for me by my son who’s a pretty popular local musician here in the Norfolk area. He was formerly with a band called Court Street Company and recently left and formed his new band Allen Hudson and the Halfmoons. Here’s a link to their first single that was just released: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hX930pWMgLHNhqQ.html

Walt, how and when are you logging these QSOs? Are you going back and listening to the video? Either that or you're really good with one hand!

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

4 ай бұрын

I go back through the video, it’s time stamped

@bevo65

4 ай бұрын

@@COASTALWAVESWIRES Thanks. As a n00b, I have a hard time copying people's calls -- they talk fast and I listen slow. 😆

Cool Antenna. 73 Walt, KO4HPC

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Adam!! 73 K4OGO

Your audio is amazing. How are you capturing it? Also, my G-90 is my go-to radio for POTA activations, usually leaving my FT-891 at home. You’re having fun there! Waves from Mobile, AL

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Hi Andy, I just use the internal mic in my iPhone 13 Pro Max and then edit the levels in KineMaster when I edit the video. 73, Walt

@Aimsport-video

Жыл бұрын

You’ll notice he speaks loudly. That helps the iphone mics so as well as they do.

Great show and set up. 1/4 on 20 meter? And did you use any transformer ( I didn't see one) or try to tune it on other bands?

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

No transformer, just the wire clip at the end of the coax. My G90 tuner actually tuned it up on 17 but there wasn't much on he band at the time. Thanks for watching! 73 K4OGO

I love watching your videos as I’m a new tech with a G90. Question if I build a 10m version of this vertical do I need to use a balun or unun? I haven’t really learned about these yet and want to try out some antennas out. I understand that balance the unbalanced power in coax but the G90 has a good tuner I think just wondering if it would be ok.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

8 ай бұрын

With the G90 and it's tuner you could absolutely build it without a balun or unun. A vertical wire 8 feet 3 inches should get you perfect SWR in the SSB portion of 10 meters for Techs. I do it just using a banana clip without a balun and it works great. Good luck and good DX!

@henry87349

8 ай бұрын

Thank you I’m going to try it today.

Hi Walt, Is this antenna multi band? What were the swr readings on 20 thru 10? And what logging app do you use? 73

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

10 ай бұрын

Hi, this antenna is a resonant 20 meter band antenna with perfect 1:1 SWR on that band. It can be cut for any band. I just log with QRZ. 73, Walt K4OGO

Was the antenna resonant or did you use the tuner in the G90? Great video Walt!

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

It was resonant for 20 meters didn’t need the ATU. I’ve actually used it on 17 with the G90’s tuner. Thanks for watching!!

Hamateur radio

Qual e o tamanho do contrapeso ?

That fishing rod is carbon fibre, - does it not affect the wire antenna negatively because its a conductive material?

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Nope not at all

Hi, Walt. I want to build one of these. No balun or choke required? Tnx 73, Mike K3CXG

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

10 ай бұрын

You can build it without one as I showed here but a 1:1 balun will make this a much better antenna.

💎💎💎💎💪 GREAT 👋🍀🐿👋

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!

@petermajor4599

Жыл бұрын

@@COASTALWAVESWIRES 👋 kind regards from germany. De Peter , 73🤗😄

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Peter I’m about to board a plane to Munich in 30 minutes 😂 Unfortunately I’ll only be passing through on my way to Gdańsk. 73, Walt

@petermajor4599

Жыл бұрын

@@COASTALWAVESWIRES BOAH 🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻 that is extreme cool!!! HAVE A NICE TRIP to europe!!!!! 😊 unbelievable 😊 🍀 i am home at 40 minutes from airport MUC

No common mode choke?

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

10 ай бұрын

Not when I was putting it together but it would absolutely perform better with one.

How do you tuna boat? Or tuna fish? = With a 1/4 wave fishing pole.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

hahahaha

hey walt my friend, hope your well. great video, great ant, simple, works just great, what more does anyone want. my 1/4 verts work zl to eu and everywhere else everyday, and yet some tell me verts are no good or need to be elevated to work dx hi. keep up the good work, see you next time. zl3xdj.

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much my friend! 73/K4OGO

@control5835

Жыл бұрын

Verts best ground fed! And long as without blowing over, if not compensate for length with base loading coil. Tune to say 7.15 then find correct no. of turns for max. signal, this should be near best for xmit resonance as well! These verts can simply be moved as far from noise sources as possible and with their co-ax feeds going along the ground they aren't suseptable to qrm!

How long does the 12v/6a battery power the g90?

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

I’ve used it for 4 to 5 hours continuously without issue

@waynerichter3190

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Last question I swear…when you put radials for this antenna (not in water) how many Is minimum and how long do they need to be? I am space compromised at my place. I love your channel. Your my new go to for ham and qrp!

Cool beans Walt KE8NKV 73

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 73 K4OGO

Does the radio actually go in the water? Does it get wet and submerged or is it above the water

@PatAutrey

Жыл бұрын

I meant to say ground radial

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

@@PatAutrey yes I drop the radial into the water but try to keep as much of it on the surface of the water. It’s the water surface that’s the ground plane.

@PatAutrey

Жыл бұрын

@@COASTALWAVESWIRES thanks for clarifying! I was planning to put a weight on it to sink it to the bottom!

Nice work Walt antenna works fantastic Nice to make your video 😂 de N1DRS

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the awesome QSO! That playback was the best part of the video, I really appreciate it. 73 de K4OGO

Great video showing how easy it is to get on the air. 🎙 W1FYG

@COASTALWAVESWIRES

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 73, K4OGO