if you live in my world you will get a lot of emails from very kind people
not having a go at anybody all right they're very polite
get emails from people who will explain to me some ad setup right I'll just invent something
normally it's a ton of text and I'm not very good at text right particularly if it's more than about
three lines sometimes it goes on and on and on and on and I don't know what the question is and then
they explain that they've got this they want to connect some thing to the bottom of a tower and
they go off here and then over an oak tree and then over here then they're going to come back
they're going to use a mast here and along there and they're going to ground this whatever okay
and they ask me this will it work okay so foreign it's very important to have a definition of work
all right so Rowley years ago he used to teach and Radio New Zealand I remember telling me I was on
one of the live streams years ago he had a piece of wood or something with a six-inch nail in it
and they they got it working on it you got it working on the 10 meter band The Big Tuna thing
and he made a contact DX contract on a six-inch nail okay so will it work well yeah the point is
if you can get some RF into something whether it be stepladders
or or this or up the tree and background down to the kitchen sink
it almost work okay now I think where we are Where We Are missing a trick
is what is the definition of work there we are so for me my will it work is I wanted an antenna
right I always want that this is my perfect antenna that that reliably transmits and receives
I don't need any more out any outboard tuner I can use some bog standard coax I I'm into that I got
at the end of the coax but I I need coax and it'll do multi-bad okay I mean that's what I like right
because sometimes I might want to run an amplifier and sometimes I might not want to run an amplifier
so let's say um you know I can't I was trying not to use the word DH Commander but DX Commander is
a vertical and we know that is a vertical with a number of elements set for 40 20 17
whatever 12 10 1 for 30 in here somewhere and we know that we get a less than 1.1 uh
1.521 SWR by the way SWR doesn't mean to say it's working all right it just means there's
a reasonable match between your radio the coax and the antenna so but anyway but with
hundreds and hundreds of contacts and thousands of customers everybody's worked out oh yeah that
works as designed with few radials on the ground that was better than my little fandipolla had or
whatever it just works okay so in that regard we can say yes it does work so that's my kind of 100
Mark all right that's where I'm aiming for but I'll get people who'll say I'm thinking they're
taking your DX commander and I'm going to do something completely different with it I'm going
to put it on a garage roof I'm going to strap it to the chimney I'm going to put a piece of
wife whatever yeah I get all this right I'll get all this this is what I'm gonna do will it work
the answer is I I might actually send people to this video in future when they do this I'll say oh
watch this this will tell you if it'll work or not it will always work okay it's how well this works
well for me and lots and lots of other people if you want to do it a different way it'll just work
differently I don't know how well because I'm not a magician I don't I don't know all right
but in the main it'll just work and you'll probably be happy with it okay but it might mean
you need an ATU because it's a bit of a mismatch it might be it's really difficult to maintain
if you put it you put everything on a roof you've now got to be able to get to the roof take it all
down maintain it put it back up again all right life becomes really hard if you do anything other
than that I designed right but you try just just go and try it really I remember one on the live
streams you know give it a go give it a go but will it work I don't know I don't know for me
for me the definition of will it work is just I'm almost best as I can get it all right
but your definition of will it work bloody hell I remember going to I went to a field day you know
with the the local Club you know and there's guys there I've got radio in front of me you
know with a little 817 or whatever it is that the nastiest bit of second-hand RG58 they can
find far too much of it so they just coiled it all up into this some weird contraption that
you can buy you know that lizard right the crocodile whatever it is you know they screw
these things in and adjust the coils and whatever else now we're getting a match on say 40 meters
um I mean I suppose it worked because they could hear people I don't think anyone have ever made
a bloody contact on it but I want to transmit and receive I don't just want to hear bologna I want
to get a contact and that's what I do and will it work is my transmit and receive so there we are
will it work I don't know have you ever had yeah
have you made Lanterna which you thought would work but didn't I have a couple of times maybe
we'll cover that in a later date all right well that's all will it work I've got no idea go and
find out give it a go get yourself a six inch now and a big tuner and you can also
do what roly did next video is coming up a bit of a jolly good day thanks for tuning in bye for now