/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2616517
Vhf/uhf is a toy you use in the car with a much better antenna, to talk to locals. HF is where the magic happens, mobile or from home. Slow scan television from Australia/Japan/all of the American continent, ft8 world wide, ssb world wide, etc.

Local fm is little toy shit. It's fun to scan local repeaters with a feng or pick up analog work radios, but honestly a digital scanner that has trunked signal tracking does it 900x better. It's a little toy walkie talkie.

Here's from when we set up a fast scan television broadcast to a TV repeater, which transmitted to a live stream on YouTube of us using a 240ft vertical radio station tower on 80m/160m am/ssb radio. The baomeme is a toy I keep in my truck that let us set up audio from 20 miles away temporarily while fixing technical difficulties with the stream, using the truck antennas.

Fast scan television test run from north of the speedway into mount Potosi repeater. (Mostly) successful, with minor audio issues. Because the towers are decommissioned, we have access to the site and even have authorization to use the 240ft towers for ham radio before they get demolished. You might hear us on 160m on Saturday nights getting into a damn good chunk of North and South America.