IC-7300 🇨🇦 Winter Adventure in the Car on a snowy day! скачать в хорошем качестве

IC-7300 🇨🇦 Winter Adventure in the Car on a snowy day!

Hi this is Frank, in this video I attempt to make HF contacts on a snowy day. Using an IC-7300, AH-4 Tuner and a 33 feet vertical antenna with 5 radials. The 40M band got zapped by nearby LED lights which forced me to use only the 20M band. Timeline 00:00 Intro 00:35 Setup 00:51 Testing Antenna and Tuner 01:10 Calling CQ 40M 01:21 M3AFF in England 01:59 Calling CQ no response 02:25 IC-7300 shutdown 02:57 Noise floor jumped from S3 to S9+10 03:24 LED Lights cause a lot of noise on the 40M band 04:09 Forced to use the 20M 04:17 N8FUM in Ohio 05:24 WB4ZUF in Georgia 06:10 Car revving up in the snow 06:29 Outro So I decided to stop calling CQ and join another station, I cranked up the power to 100W… But I forgot that the battery cannot supply enough voltage and the radio shutdown… watch the radio As I searched the bands, many stations were rag shewing… I finally tried to join an interesting QSO and this happened Watch the waterfall, the noise floor is about S3… Now the noise floor suddenly jumped to almost S9+10 That noise ruined the entire 40M band, so I had to revert back to 20M, but at this time of the day, 20M is not that great, still I managed to make a few more contacts. From that point on, contacts were very much difficult on 20M At the same time I was hearing a car revving up outside, so decided to take a look Ha that looks like a lot of fun Well that wraps it up for today, some days are better than others, doing HF portable in the winter in Quebec can be challenging, the most important, is finding a noise free location and hope for the bands to cooperate. Fortunately the weather was ok, so I was able to spend some time to film this and show you how I do it. I hope this was interesting for you to watch, until next time, this is Frank signing out 73! Keywords: Icom, IC-7300, Ham Radio, Amateur Radio, Portable, Winter, Snow, Quebec