right so today is the dx dx commander expedition speed challenge because this is tom he's going away we're not telling you where he's going he's got a 90 minute a 90 minutes 90 mile island remote trip portable with solar power that's coming up he's taking an expedition with him all right so see how fast we can build this lockheed's the cameraman today but sometimes he might have to stop to help us do the fast soldiering all right and josh from ham radio crash course sorry mr cool okay right i'll uh see you in a minute is there any other dx10 other than just here oh here there's some some here okay unravel that tom three metres here three meters to there so if we just rattle off wire okay fine so we've got four together i'll twist them together right and we'll just see how many long basically there yeah yep we can put a bit of self-harm on there yeah what do you think afterwards i do want to slip them all exactly at the same length at the very end do you want two or no i'm not bothered i'm gonna bother drying okay he's not bothered it's like your haircut yeah okay oh yeah well they're all the same then through hopefully okay so that's about 10 minutes and what we've done is we've got three bunches of radials um we've used three four connectors there's three meters on each radial there's six radials in each bunch three sixes are eighteen 18's 3 8 24 74 meters is that right no 72 meters oh six three sixes are 18 right okay so we've got six radials three meters long and that all into one full connector 18 meters so each bunch of radials is 18 meters and how many bunches do we have four four to four 18s is 72 because 218 is 36. that's how i did it you see now we're going to just get a little bit of self-amalgamated tape just to make the end of the forks look nice tommy's now going to demonstrate how to do this so the trickiness is getting the back off this yeah and how much of this stuff do you want not too much bloom you are using a lot that's very expensive tom marx had a 10 in the comments for tom's ability to self-amalgamate i haven't evolved that far what bands do you want on this uh we're gonna go for 40 20 and 10 40 20 10 and 18 as a backup yeah all right okay all right we can do that how do you turn it around there we go that's a really unflattering angle of my face okay i'm ready okay then you hold the end and just throw it out what you didn't see is the special trick of how to wind your radials up not how to wind your wife up so i hold one of these in my left hand because i can only do it one-handed and i put my hand down that backwards down there and i lift up and i'm cool i'm causing a little anti-turn if that's an anti-turn that's a positive turn then an anti then a positive and then if there was any more you could do an antique right and the idea is is you can grab hold of the end you can take that together put a zip tie on it whatever and then it all untangles that's how you do it so this is my favorite tape 3m 10 flex 10 millimeters that's probably 10 meters a lot of you are gonna have is oh you should use velcro for doing this we don't have any velcro i'm sure tom is capable of getting some little velcro ties all right in the meantime all we're going to do is we're going to take these radials up uh there's your tape sir thank you some bloke once taught me this oh what leave a fail detail yeah let's feel detail and you can always find the end lovely okay so we're in what 15 20 minutes in and all the radials are done is that right yeah and you said you wanted 10 20 40 and 80. yeah okay so we need the chart ah lookie could you dial up for me uh dx commander user guide please right scroll down we get a bunch of length somewhere on here and a table with a little chart whoa there it is two and a half 502 eleven fifteen [ __ ] put the fork connectors on this just like an so239 single wire 2.5 meters exactly there tom's just carrying on doing the rest of his self-amalgamating tape and tom had four radials before connector we could have used glue lined heat shrink and that's the reason why we're not using a glue line heat shrink on this he's doing his self-amalgamating tape and stuff right that's 10 meters done uh that's 20. no just one
have end got those little sorry mate that's the other one if you can find some you can take them without you if not what we'll do do you know the colors of the rainbow now tom does fancy some of those little kiddie bracelet things we put on these sometimes but we can't find them so what i'm suggesting we do is we do the colors of the rainbow red orange yellow green so red is going to be for 10 meters orange so we'll give them red at the bottom but when the elements are lined on the floor he's going to want a little one somewhere near the top so we'll do that as well tom is desperately hunting for those little um kids cubes that use for bracelets and their little number so we could have like 10 20 things like that but i'm going to show him the less weight and more adult way of doing it is why just gotta go to your elements like that let's go and see how he's getting on why is that placing such a tip oh okay it's not in that box definitely not in that box they'll be on their own somewhere what sort of autistic adhd person has a workbench that you can't work on it's just a horizontal storage area i'm gonna tidy this up not today you're not you can come back and good news is he's found one of the analyzers all right not all of them just one of them okay tom we can start to reel off a 10 meter oh 11 oh how much 439 inches where's 10 meters what do you say 11 15. 11.15 meters okay hold on then damn oh it is that's all right that's all right so we're not on youtube we need some of his black shed not that i'm gonna fold that in half that's all the soldering done so we'll get one of when he's rather than going into the shop and getting 16 bolts and 14 washers and all that stuff we'll just have one of wendy's bags should have i should have pre-done one of these so one of these boxes got expeditions in it expedition checklist lovely so all the bits we're gonna need are gonna be in there right you wanna do do your trick with this now the thing is so tom with dx10 you could probably just curl that up normally throw it out and it'll be fine all right so we'll do a test in a minute out there but we need to assemble the plate set tom's recording hey thumbs are good he's the cameraman so tom's on the camera now and what we're doing is we're building him an expedition kit so if you bought this it would arrive in a big box you'd undo the box and part of that box apart from a reel of wire which you've already seen us play with i'm not doing a demonstration of what all this is what we're going to do right now is just build it but to do that we need a box which i think is this that's a smiley face that loki does and that little triangle at the bottom i happen to know means it's the plate set for an expedition kit the lock is packed as an so239 we've got some self-amalgamating tape instructions tells you where to get them ah you get a poll lucky where are the expedition poles are they pre-wrapped at the and moment above you okay so we'll need this as well we'll test this out in a minute and make sure it's going to work for tom but in the meantime tom if you come closer we get our screw some nuts bolts and washers together here and to do that i'm going to put my glasses on i'm going to screw these up there and i'm just i'm not doing that middle one right oh and i will that will be for his so2394 connector and he wants four we've got 80 meters as well so we'll put 80 meters on that one i'll just get my spanner the thread's a bit sticky that's all right so they're all ready to go right so all i'm doing is just tensioning them to the point where they're not going to fall out or when tom does out his wing nut everything just you know it's not going to rattle off that's all i'm doing probably about a half a turn lovely right i think we want to put this oh let's get the so239 on that tom i thought i had some scissors now i'm suggesting don't need the ground tag but optionally people might want the little the little serrated bit and we'll tension this up we'll use a huge great set of pliers on that i normally just do that by hand but anyway that's in it's not going to fall off i'll just check is that big enough yeah nice lovely okay now we can put that on the bottom of your pole i'm just anticlockwising let's find the thread so i can tighten it up now question for you tom are you going to be dismantling this every time you put it away or you're gonna like put it in your backpack sticking out the top like that i suspect yeah okay fine do you want washers yes you do please oh i forgot to put on a washer why is it when you're filming me i can't put a wing nut on a thread and i just spun it off well is there a medical term for that yeah stage fright isn't it oh is it stage fright i don't know you should be good at this by now ah done it okay the trick is just use two hands all right it's a lot easier so that's them on now i think we should do is if you're going to keep this on permanently we will create you a little right yeah and for this one here i'll see if i've got one of these but with a big wing on it but the charts are it's only gonna be up for a couple of hours at a time isn't it yeah so you shouldn't need anything else i'm gonna suggest tom that instead of trying to guide us all the time i've just lost a wing nut on the floor somewhere instead of trying to guide us all the time you are going to be in place in a place with trees aren't you yeah trees or fences and things yeah so you just better lean it up against the fence yeah i think i'll have plenty of bungees and things like i can put it up against with fence posts and things i mean you could dye it if you want to but i'll tell you what because you're a special friend we will use some nice black rubber hose so this is this is non-standard right it's kind of kinky all right i would love to be able to supply this but it is it's far too expensive but you bought coffee so smart what actually is that gun it's pure rubber tubing we supply that with the nebula kit the 18 meter there it is screwdriver basically it's very rubbery okay so once that's you know just stick nicely this we could put anywhere but i would probably put it there well what we haven't done before we go out is we you get in the kit some glue lined heat shrink to do your loops but we don't know if we want to shorten or lengthen i don't know so i'm just going to create the loop now with a little bit of tape on 20 meters is a bigger fallback isn't it did you ask lucky to go and check i think it's six centimeters but i thought it was 20 on there the user guide thing yeah red orange dollar chart the foldback was six centimeters i've just put a bit of tape here eventually look at some glue-lined heat shrink that's 10 meters i'm making a 20 meter element this is it here and 20 meter element that's a 20 centimeter which is about eight inches but it's all on the chart okay what we'll do we'll take everything outside now rope it together we will need some shock cord some clips some cutters which i'm going to give the cutters to tom so we'll just uh got a checklist going tom's got the elements radials are down here we've got little spreaders we've got a backup analyzer we'll need the pole obviously as well to hold the elements in place right it's cold and windy outside so i think what we should do is do is cue some music so so dominique okay fox 4 hotel uh hotel london london dominique yeah okay 10 watts both ways lovely 57 south of france very good at qdhs near birmingham over echo delta hello this is a mica zero x-ray x-ray yes okay ed as i said just well 13 watts on the radio about 10 watts on on the uh on the um antenna and we're halfway between birmingham and coventry yeah dover we're taking the expedition back down now it's all working fine when are you off um going up to scotland on the 26th of february tom's gonna try and call in you know i know 11 o'clock 12 o'clock whatever he's got cell phone curry coverage so we'll be able to fix up a scared you'll be able to talk to him as well he's got a little camera like the one i'm holding now so he's going to take some footage when he comes back we'll edit it all together and we'll show you tom's trip all right tommy uh all the best we tried 10 watts we got that working yeah swi was fine good man all right i'll see you next week i hope you've enjoyed this i mean it works and everything else the next video is coming up here in the meantime have a great time remember to enjoy your radio have a jolly good fun all right bye for now you
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