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- 40 Channels of Fun - Flex Your SDR Muscles - Hardware/Software Development - Valves. The hard way - ham related youtube, podcasts and more. Ham has interested me for a while but for various reasons I've never gotten around to getting licensed. In a bit I'll be hiking the AT, about 2500 miles that goes from Georgia to Maine. I'm planning on getting licensed and using a radio instead of a phone, since I won't always have service and I want to use APRS, among other protocols, to let my family know where I am (and that I'm alive). I have my heart set on the Yaesu VX-8DR because it's packed with features for its small size (when you're thru-hiking, every ounce on your pack seriously adds up). It also looks adorable, but maybe that's just me.
However, I've heard that the range on it doesn't really compare to other HTs. Being totally new to the world of ham, is there a better alternative (or better, a still lightweight antenna that I can use with the radio) to make sure I can hit a packet repeater 85-90% of the trail? Thanks in advance! Sorry if I've asked anything foolish. I do long distance hiking with my HF setup. My KX3, a 40-6m wire antenna, and a battery with enough capacity to last about 8 hours of operating @ 5w weighs a bit less than 4lbs.
You just have to get a bit creative to keep weight low. If HF is the route you want to go, and you want SSB and digital capability, there's nothing even remotely close to the KX3. The FT-817, while a nice car camping or day hiking/SOTA radio, is terrible on the trail: it's just terribly designed for it. I know, I carried one for 2 years, including 500 miles of the AT from Springer to about central VA.
That stupid steel clamshell enclosure and enormous hand mic make up more than 50% of the rig's 2.2lbs (KX3 is about 1.5), and it's a total battery hog. The FT-817 draws more current @ 5w out than the KX3 does @ 10w in most cases. It also draws almost 3 times as much current during receive. That all means you have to carry twice as much battery for the same amount of operating. If you keep the KX3 at 5w output, battery life quite literally doubles over the 817. Now, even the KX3 is most definitely heavy by hiking standards.
The kit weighs more than any single piece of gear I carry, but I love portable operating, so it's not so much an emergency provision as it is a secondary activity on the trail. If you're thru-hiking, the bigger issue is time. Are you planning to go NOBO or SOBO? If you're going North Bound, you're under a fair time constraint, at least for most hikers. You'll find yourself with remarkably little 'bored time' except when you're riding out terrible weather, in which case you probably shouldn't be on the radio anyway, or on Zero Days, during which you'll be doing a whole lot of eating, sleeping, and standing in the shower trying to remember every detail of what it feels like to be clean. SOBO is a bit more leisurely pace, and would probably be more conducive to operating regularly.
You can get the General license pretty quickly. I would recommend you do that ASAP. Just study questions and answers only. As for handheld HF, the FT-817D is your best bet. Coupled with even a modest battery and antenna, you can get out there.
The Par End Fedz (one 20m and one 40m) are good if you don't want to use a tuner; otherwise, the EARCHI end-fed matchbox with a LDG Z-11 or MFJ manual tuner will work fine. I will be honest: unless you want to play the satellite game and know when the passes are, you will have limited success with an HT on that trail.
To prove this to yourself, try the Repeaterbook app and force a gridsquare along the plotted trail you will go on. You'll understand whether you can actually hit a repeater or not. Either way, if you're going to use an HT you absolutely need a handheld Yagi or log-periodic and there are no guarantees. Again, my advice: General license, low-power radio with an end-fed wire antenna pre-cut for 20m and 40m, or an EARCHI end-fed or similar.
When it comes to long hikes, Space and weight is the utmost importance. A lot of hikers doing to the AT overpack.
There are shops along the AT that allow hikers to store and send gear because they overpacked. The FT-817 is NOT a good radio for the long haul hiker.
It's big, bulky, it weighs almost 4lbs and it uses up batteries fast. It uses 250mA just being on.
500mA RX and 2A TX. If I were OP and had more of an interest in using the radio other than APRS, I would get a general ticket, learn CW and use one of KD1JV's radios (Either AT Sprint or MTR) which were designed with hiking in mind.
It's very small, great RX, decent TX (2-5W) and doesn't take up much space. It can even be used with a 9V battery which can be found at most stores along the trail.
Combine that with a PAR Endfed and he will be set. As for VHF APRS.
If he gets the Yaesu VX-8. He will be just fine as long as he keeps it off until he hits a summit or peak higher than avg terrain. Then turn in on, send a packet or two, confirm (if possible) and shut it off. There are spots along the trail where he could re-charge. It's pretty much impossible for OP to learn code well enough to operate in the short-term. The other thing is that, while the KX3 is the ultimate QRP rig, it is double the price. That leaves him with digital modes and SSB phone, and on short notice and for the price difference I think the 817 with a tuner is a better rig for him IF he decides to do it, plus has VHF/UHF.
If weight is really an issue too, then digital modes are out since he needs a tablet or PC (and yes, I know the KX-3 with a key can do them albeit on a very cramped screen but we're back to the code issue). I also think the VX-8DR is a lot of money for a first HT even though I own one and it does have built-in APRS. It's a crapshoot without a good antenna and line of sight. To be honest, and thinking about this now, I'm not sure that there is much that can be done in such a short period of time without some in-person elmering. It certainly can't hurt to get a roll-up J-pole and a cheaper HT, but that has limited use. I've heard that the range on it doesn't really compare to other HTs. I doubt that's a valid claim.
So I wouldn't worry too much. But, if you can find one, a Yaesu VX-8GR (recently retired and replaced by the FT1D) or Kenwood TH-D72A (readily available) might be good alternatives. They're both 2m/400 (so you won't get 222 and 6m like the 8DR - but the likelihood of you working 6m/222m FM repeater is slim I'm guessing). However the benefit is that they both pack onboard GPS and strong APRS support.
The 8DR needs a separate (and ugly) GPS addon. Throw on a massive whip HT antenna and you might be in good shape.
Keep a copy of the repeater directory in your pack and maybe you'll have some luck? A lot of people pack tiny HF CW radios while walking the trail (heck, there's an entire series of radios made by a guy specifically for that purpose - the AT series by Steve Weber KD1JV who frequently hits the trail). A small shortwave radio might be fun too for some late night listening. I have no idea what the repeater coverage is like on the trail. I'm taking a totally blind guess and I'm going to say it's bleak. And if your HT is on all day while you're hiking a beaconing, you may need to find a mechanism for charging if you don't have power readily available. I have to imagine there's an entire group dedicated to this - so I'm sure you'll have no problems finding other resources if you Google hard enough.
Good luck and enjoy the hike! For safety, get the SPOT. It'll be more reliable. My folks have a cabin in an area near the trail, in a valley. Last time I was there, I didn't receive any APRS traffic, or have any of my beacons make it to an IGate. If you get stuck and can't get to the mountain top, the SPOT will still get out when APRS won't. If you want a ham radio, consider the Kenwood TH-72A as well.
I understand the concern about the weight and size, but it didn't seem that much smaller, or lighter than the Kenwood. I compared it to the VX-8DR when buying my last HT and went with the TH-72A despite being familiar with Yaesus from my previous HT (a VX-5R). The Kenwood doesn't have as many bands as the VX-8DR, and unless you want the really wide-band scanning, this isn't very important. I've never heard anyone on 6 meter FM, so it wasn't a priority for me. It doesn't receive down into the FM radio band, which could be useful, but it does receive NOAA weather radio. The things it does have, which the VX-8DR doesn't, is a built in GPS receiver, and a bigger battery, for less money.
All things added up, to get on the air with APRS, the Kenwood was cheaper. Consider your power source too. For charging from mains, my old Yaesu had serious brick of a wall-wart to charge it, the Kenwood's is significantly smaller. I believe both radios have AA battery packs available, if you want to get a recharge by just stopping in a store. For the antenna get a flexible after-market HT antenna like the Diamond SRHF40 or Comet SMA-24 (I have the SMA version). If you have space, the roll up JPole would be nice, but the coax will probably take up more space than it's worth.
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With the handheld antenna, get to a mountain top or a ridge if you want to send a message and you should be good. If you can, make it to a ham store, and check both of the radios out, hold them, play with the menu system, see if it makes sense to you. As a hiker and a ham I hope I can help. To put it bluntly you'll probably be dissapointed and send whatever radio you decide to get home after the first few weeks. The Yaesu VX-8DR looks awesome, I've never used it, but it will probably be greatly enhanced by a better antenna.
A roll up J-Pole which is essentially a long wire you hang from a tree will help but you won't want to stop and set it up all the time just to send a location report out. A good quality whip antenna is probably best.
Not much added weight but it's going to be much longer 2-3ft long compared to the 10' one that comes in the box. As much as I think you should get your ham license and play I'd be more apt to recommend a for the trail. Good luck on the trail, It's on my bucket list to do but I'm working on the Long Trail first. Edit: CaPItALizaTIon.