Will a cheap CB antenna work for POTA?

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Will a cheap CB antenna work for POTA?

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Ай бұрын

I attempt a Parks on the Air (POTA) activation on 10 meters using an Abbree CB antenna to see if it will work and what bands Emergency Mode on the ICOM 7300 can tune it.
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(Note: it doesn't say Abbree, but that's what arrived in the mail)
Signal Stuff mag mount
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Making the FT8 contact with Belize from the hotel room • From Ohio to Belize us...

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@Scout75PortableRadio Ай бұрын

Great stuff as always, Mike! Keep experimenting! Keep F'ing around and finding out. THAT is what this hobby is all about.

@MikeN2MAK Ай бұрын

You bet! I’m not worried about the $13 for this. I’ll find some good use for it as I keep experimenting.

@jamesknotts1546 Ай бұрын

I made some contacts with a cb antenna days after getting my tech license I was definitely running high swrs on my 7300 I cut the cord and made a wire vertical and that is the first antenna I had I talked a lot of people on it including you at a new park we had a brief QSO a couple weeks later I found your channel and said hey I worked that guy on POTA 😂

@MikeN2MAK Ай бұрын

LOL, I still remember our contact. Thanks for checking out the video! I’ll be trying some other configurations for this antenna.

@K3JRZOnTheAir Ай бұрын

Antenna time! Nice work! 73!

@MikeN2MAK Ай бұрын

I’ve still gotta activate with it soon, even if it’s FT8.

@NovemberOneOscarGrouch Ай бұрын

I've got several mag mount CB antennas. Good to know in a bind it'll work on 10m. It looked like it may have tuned up 12 as well. The 17 foot whip is amazing. I have the Chameleon model and love it.

@MikeN2MAK Ай бұрын

The 17’ whip is my favorite antenna. Maybe with better band conditions I’ll have more luck on 10/12m.

@robertmeyer4744 Ай бұрын

Interesting experiments . Yes the HF bands been weird before field day and 6/26 still bit odd. some 6 meters . The outher day 20 meters around noon was pretty flat but 15 meters was hooping real nice FT8 . 12/17 /10 not so good but got a 6 meter FT8 . Pretty much 40/80/160 totally un usable for me. S9 to S15 noise floor at times. summer like that for me around Boston NY . 73's

@MikeN2MAK Ай бұрын

Yeah, the bands have definitely been weird lately. I caught some of the 6m opening right before Field Day and had some fun with that on SSB and FT8.