30 July 2020 Thursday (0100 UTC Friday) Q&A Live Stream

15:01 Q & A starts
46:12 Ishmael Samuel J72IMS, Would you recommend the kenwood tm710a and ICOM9100 hf radio as a good emergency set up station command center?
47:15 Matt KD0MYJ, Is 16 gauge okay to use in either the tinned copper or insulated wire?Which vertical, without radials, would you recommend that would give me maximum DX capability?
49:12 Rob KJ7PEJ If i use the wall mounts and have the bottom of the pole on the ground and they highest mount at 11' leaving 15' of mast/antenna above the mount point will I need to guy wire it?
52:53 Jeff Wittern KE0KRO, Do you think I am doing something incorrectly with my built in antenna tuner in the TS 59SG?
59:23 Frank KB3EJV, Do I need to add 144.390 to a channel and or scan list or will it send to the background?
1:06:49 Rich 6ZGN, I passed my Extra thanks to your amateur Extra videos in June.






To learn more about me, visit: http://www.dcasler.com/home
Tip jar (on my website): http://www.dcasler.com/tip-jar/ (provides a method to use your credit card via PayPal, Also describes Patreon)
To pose an Ask Dave question: http://www.dcasler.com/ask-dave/ or http://www.ke0og.net/ask-dave/
To order the most recent and up-to-date Amateur Extra videos on a thumb drive: http://dcasler.com/aevids-on-stick/

Theme music is "Sour Tennessee Red," by John Deley and the 41 Players, courtesy YouTube Music Library.
I use drawings from OpenClipArt.org, including the "walking man"
Technician training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/training/
General training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/general/
Amateur Extra training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/extra/
List of the Ask Dave videos, see http://dcasler.com/ask-dave/#askdavelist
Thanks to my sweet wife, Loretta, KBØVWW, for both audio and video assistance! (Her website is www.aldea-art.com.)

My primary website: http://www.dcasler.com
The ham radio part of my website (direct link): http://www.ke0og.net
My publishing website: http://www.mtsneffelspress.com, where you can find my fantasy and science fiction books, as well as some local history books I publish for the Ridgway Railroad Museum and the Ouray County Historical Society
My Amazon author page, which lists my print and Kindle books: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00471I0Q4.

I'm often asked what equipment I use to create the videos. The devices include the Panasonic DMC-G7 camera, Panasonic HDC-TM90 video camera, GoPro Hero2 HD camera, Tascam DR-05 audio recorder, Audio-Technica ATR-3350 lapel microphone, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W560 digital camera, the Kodak Zi-8 video camera, my iPhone 5S. Software used: CyberLink PowerDirector 17 on an HP Gaming Pavilion, also using Smoothdraw 4.0.5.0, FastStone Image Viewer 5.3, FastStone Capture 8.0, Audacity 2.1.1, LibreOffice 5.0.4.2, and Ink2Go 1.7.2. You can see how my studio is set up by viewing https://youtu.be/wFSQ8vtNA5A.

Twitter: @dcasler