Let’s talk about production quality in YouTube videos. I’m by no means perfect so I’m guilty of some of this stuff too. But let’s start with some things that can be improved. The first one is lighting. Even one fill light straight ahead of you can get you looking better on camera. Three point lighting levels it up even more. Plenty of tutorials on that.

I’ll offer a #hamradio DX tip. There is no one size fits all. From my experience I’ve found that Antenna, operator skill, radio, amplifier all matter, roughly in that order but not always. On the higher (easier) bands, having a good tx antenna matters most. /1 On the low bands that’s where things change. You find yourself using separate receive and transmit antennas on 80 and 160m. Your transmit antenna’s relevance to success suddenly drops down significantly. In fact you can make up for it with an amplifier. /2