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President's Message
Is it me, or did this month seem short? What a great Flea Market! Thanks to Bev for doing such a great job as Flea Market czar. We have a couple of upgraded members, and all those from License in a Weekend have received calls. My congratulations to all those who took exams, and my thanks to all those who taught and gave exams.
The two HF antennas at the shack are down for repair. The parts for the beam have arrived, and, weather permitting, we'll have that back up by the time you read this. Time, wind and rain had taken their toll in missing hardware and enlarged holes, so some new parts were needed. The vertical, although I haven't looked at it too closely, will probably need the same kind of treatment. We got away for under $100 on the beam, and the vertical will probably cost less. Jim, W1EQW, has suggested we look at a better quality beam that might be in the back corridor.
I got to visit a ham club while I was on vacation in the UK. I have a couple of pictures of their setup, which gave me some ideas. They have it much nicer than we do, as they have two rooms and better antennas. They have a nice operating bench that we might want to copy.
That's all for now, but please remember the Field Day planning meetings on alternate Wednesday nights.
Come and listen. You might find something you'd like to work on.
73,
Peter, KA1AXY
What I saw on my Spring Vacation
by Peter, KA1AXY
Cathy and I just returned from a week in London and Paris. We had a great time, visiting all the tourist traps, and one place that I especially wanted to see. It's called Bletchley Park, and it isn't in any tourist brochures. Bletchley Park is an old estate, about an hour northwest of London by train. Its importance lies in what was accomplished on the grounds of this old manor house during the Second World War.
Bletchley Park was the center of the British effort to break the German encrypted radio traffic. There are several good books about what they did and how they did it. The Germans used a electro-mechanical cipher machine which was "reverse engineered", first by three Polish cryptanalysts and then by the British. Having
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