First DX From a Christmas Tree? This Christmas Light Dipole Surprised Me!

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It's getting more and more common to make a Christmas light antenna here on KZfaq, so this year I wanted to switch it up. Last year I made the EFHW, this year I made a regular ole Dipole.
But I decided to decorate the tree with it, and see if I could still make an FT8 contact, and wow did it surprise me. I made a DX contact basically right off the bat, so as always, you don't need a giant yagi outside to play on HF.
00:00 Intro
00:33 Making The Antenna
03:10 Decorate The Tree
03:25 Show Off
04:40 FT8
06:20 Outro
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Пікірлер: 28

@rhewlett5379 7 ай бұрын

she's a keeper

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

She sure is.

@ZCount 7 ай бұрын

Loved your enthusiastic response to making a contact in Cuba! Hilarious! Very cool video, it should now be an annual tradition!

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

It should! I will give it another go next year.

@lefty-bw1zp 7 ай бұрын

Finally, a reason to have a Christmas tree 🎄

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

The HOA can't make you take down your Christmas tree!

@W6IWN_Radio 7 ай бұрын

Billy, another great experiment! 👍I'm looking forward to seeing it out in the field and other configurations. Great time for HOA Hams to string up an antenna! 🎄 Happy Holidays 🎄

@KI5IREhamradio 7 ай бұрын

Awesome video man! I think someone in the HRCC Discord was talking about this video going up last week, glad I finally got to see it. Funny you made a dipole this year, I thought I'd be the only one doing one!😄 Merry Christmas, 73!

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas! I like making these types of videos, but they sure don't get a lot of viewers compared to the usual. I saw yours too, good quality video editing.

@andyM7XTT 7 ай бұрын

Great work!!!! 👍

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@MikeN2MAK 7 ай бұрын

Great job on the video and antenna. Shoot your shot!!

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@PaulaBean 7 ай бұрын

To ensure domestic peace I advice you to turn the xmas tree dipole back into an ordinary xmas lights string ;-)

@anniezomaya151 7 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@jimj227 7 ай бұрын

Cool! Glad you guys are good after the tornado last weekend! Happy holidays! KQ4BUD

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

Thanks! Just moved so we missed it. Happy Holidays! KN4MKB!

@Swamp-Fox 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas!

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas!

@lauriepalmeira7519 7 ай бұрын

This is great!

@CodeMasseur 7 ай бұрын

Happy Holidays!

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

Happy Holidays!

@user-oh2zx6kk2u 7 ай бұрын

Dude, hams been doing this since the 1920’s. There is even a yearly lightbulb contest.

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

From a Christmas tree? Or just the lights?

@VA3OSO 7 ай бұрын

Awesome! I tried this but didn't remove the extra wires... it didn't work very well.

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm not sure what effect those jumpers would have, but I figured they were bad news. It was some work cutting them out though.

@russellroberts2228 7 ай бұрын

A fascinating and fun project...spread the cheer! Aloha de Russ (KH6JRM).

@ModernHam 7 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! It was a fun project.