I Tuned 5 Random Objects With The Xiegu G90. Can I Still Make A Contact?

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• SB

  @SBPepperminion · 1 year ago

  I could imagine a fleet of Walmart carts secretly being used to transmit on HF. Carts On The Air.

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• JM

  @jmsmorley · 10 months ago

  Just bought a G90 and have been stressing over what antenna i should get. Not anymore😂

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• JO

  @jonathansanders8268 · 1 year ago

  When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're a ham, everything looks like an antenna!

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• KD

  @kd8afy · 1 year ago

  wal-mart to wal-mart contact with shopping carts  WOTA

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• AW

  @AwesomeMidnightDrags · 1 month ago

  I remember talking to guys who were using an electric fence on their farm as an antenna. They used to put their antennas on top of the silos. Heck, I climbed my backyard tree and put a 102" whip on it, lol. My TV had a paperclip 📎 in the back of it to pick up signals. Thanks for sharing!! 73

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• MI

  @mikesradiorepair · 1 year ago

  With the bleachers you should have loaded up one and hooked up the other to the ground post.  HUGE ground mounted dipole.  And the next time you load up a grocery cart (not with grocery's) try rotating it.  Be interesting to see how much effect if any it has on signal strength.  The wheels were just screaming at you asking to be used as a rotor.

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• DA

  @davybass · 1 year ago

  After a miserable and wet army cadet field day out in an English forest trying to make any contact at all on our old WW2 radio using a 30ft mast, on the way home we reached a high piece of ground and slow traffic near Ongar in an Eastern National Lodekka omnibus. We clipped the antenna connection to a handrail, tuned up, and YAY! we got our first contact of the day. So now you know, a double-decker bus works as an antenna as well!

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• DA

  @davidsradioroom9678 · 1 year ago

  In the Atlanta area there used to be a strange antenna challenge, where hams would use unconventional items to make QSOs on. Great practice for emergency contacts.

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• TR

  @TrzCharlie · 1 year ago

  What a friggin blast....I had fun watching this. Thanks.

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• BU

  @BuffDelCampo · 1 year ago

  Somebody making ham radio fun. I love it!

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• N2

  @N2YTA · 1 year ago

  Mike, you just put the entire antenna industry out of business!

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• CA

  @castle5711 · 1 year ago

  Way cool! Great field expedient antenna action! Maybe start a PLOTA (Parking Lots On The Air) group...

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