How to work the world with a home made antenna. Hello 10 meter band! #hamradioqa

If you are a metric type of person, don't use 133/frequency to calculate the length of the dipole. It will be much too short. Use 143/frequency instead. Other than that, pretty good information here. I really liked the explanation of the Winter Anomaly.

Oh My! You had me laugh, "If you are in one of those other countries that hasn't landed on the moon..." That is a great point of view! I honestly have never heard that one before. That is a real zinger! Thanks again for all you do, and for the full laugh I got out of it!

When 10 is open, it doesn't take much to work the world. I remember in the afternoons hearing JAs all over the band and getting lots of QSL cards via the bureau later. The VKs and ZLs also came in. When the sunspots are good, it's amazing what less than 100watts and a wire will do.

Love 10 meters. The Caribbean and South American stations are always running on the weekend. Great DX time for Techs.

I definitely like videos, showcasing antennas. This is a great video for technicians as well as everyone else and it really shows how easy it is to get on the air.

Michael…That was, for me, the perfect intro to 10 metres! Thank you for the advice and the demo..John..G4EIJ

You made me laugh 😃. You are correct, we have not been to the moon, but we gave up using body parts for measuring some years ago.

Another home run, Michael. Informative with a good-natured elbow to our ham friends from elsewhere. 😀 U-rah-rah

I’ve been a technician for almost 10 years now, I got my license at 15 at the National Boy Scout jamboree. I got home & just didn’t get into it for a variety of reasons. I recently moved & joined my local ham club. We made end fed half wave radios & I finished mine December 10th. I got to work 10m as it opened up that day. I ended up buying the yaesu ft-891 that I worked 10m on from the guy in my club & I am so excited to hopefully pass General in January. Thank you for your videos!

Dear Michael, thank you for all the efforts in bringing such great videos. Watching your channel ever since I got my ticket has helped me significantly. Pls keep up the good work flowing. Cheers@ New Delhi

100W and a wire is all you need when the band is open. I did a lot of RTTY and BPSK31 on 10M back in the early 2010s as a technician, just when JT65 was becoming a thing. The sunspot cycle was way lower than it is today and I still worked all over the place when conditions were good. Now that FT8 and FT4 are a thing, it should be great for those folks who just got their ticket to get their WAS on 10m. I just wish more people would get on 10m and now 11m FM. When the conditions permit that will be a lot of fun! I had a blast a couple of Memorial Day weekends ago working all over the place on 29.6FM from the front seat of my Jeep on an MFJ 1/4 wave whip.

Finally! a great video on the building of simple antenna. (dipole) wire is cheap, insulator's are cheap and so is your time vs commercially bought same antennas you can save well over $50 in most cases. And with the advent of easy to get analyzers tuning becomes a simple task. In the old days we had to drag out the base rig and power extension cords or generators outside to do the testing. etc. so today's hams have it easy in that dept and make antenna building a joy Thanks Michael for a great tutorial well done. de Ellis WA1RKS.

Thanks for the great video, Michael. I cut my teeth on 10 meters in '94 as a spanking new Tech Plus. My rig was a 10 meter Uniden President HR2510 with 25 blistering watts, and my mobile antenna was a 102' CB whip. I worked the world from my Ranger pickup with that setup on my commute to and from work. At home I had a simple 10 meter dipole on the roof, and it brought me very surprising results as well. Your video really brought back some great 10 meter memories, so thank you very much.

What a great introduction to the 10 meter band! Great job. 👍👍

Great video on 10 meter. This gives me ideas how to try 10M and why it’s so mysterious . Thanks!!

Yes, dipoles are easy to build and they work great! When that halfwave dipole is mounted in an inverted "V", like yours was, the resonant length changes slightly, and the 73 ohm impedance will start to decrease. Besides, more closely matching your 50 ohm transceiver, it also makes the radiation pattern more omnidirectional.👍 KZ9V

Outstanding

Thank you Michael, I haven't give that band any consideration, but may give it a shot now.

Thank you so much for making this video! I hope more folks realize that homebrew is the way to go for wire antennas, especially on 10m.

Thank you Michael for another wonderful and informative video! Great idea on building a 10m Dipole, an easy to build and deploy antenna to take advantage of the improved conditions of the 10m band. This antenna can also work on 12m with a little help from a tuner. Great job as always and thank you for your inspiring content!