KIT LIST/CREDITS
HF Station 1
Yaesu FT-102 Transceiver - Running at about 150W
MFJ ATU (1.5kw Roller Inductor)
Antennas: The 'Monster' and half-size G5RV
HF Station 2
Yaesu FT-757GXII Running at 100W
MFJ (VersaTuner 2) ATU
Watson W-30AM 30Amp PSU
Antenna: HF Vertical
VHF/UI/DX Cluster
Yaesu FT-100 Running at about 5W
Yaesu FT-290R
Microset 2M 100W Amplifier - Running at about 60/70W
Watson W-25AM 25 Amp PSU
Kantronics KAM
IBM ThinkPad 755C (486SL50, 12MB RAM, 340MB HDD)
Running UI-View 2.39, Fastlog 3.4 and paKet 6.2
Antenna: White Stick - Home Brew, constructed by Steve (MW1STE)
I would like to thank all members of the CVA Team, To Stephen for Antenna advice, Operating, and for deputising and Adrian for Antenna Advice, Operating, and Propogation reports. To Simon, for Operating, Antenna help and reassuring me it was all going to plan...????? and to James for Operating, and help in Antenna rigging...
Thanks to all for bringing their shacks (in some cases) and operating...
I would also like to thank John (GW3RBM) and Stephen (G6ZMD/M3ZMD) for turning up with extension cables, and books, and for helping to fly the flag for the club - and for Operating - Especially ZMD, who came back at almost midnight to do some operating! - armed with Pizza!
Thanks also to Malcolm (GW0WZZ), Vic (GW3RME) and Trevor (callsign ??) - for turning up and putting their heads round the door, and showing support....
To Ian - It all went to plan - All eventualities were covered !!
Special Thanks finally, to Mr & Mrs Pierce (And Family) - for allowing us to use the Hangar for our Museum Event, and for helping by supplying tea/coffee, extension leads and lighting!
To all concerned - I apologise for possibly being a total pain in the rear end, that weekend - I was just trying to make sure everything ran well! - Thanks for understanding!!!
CVA Header - Created in Photoshop 6, using original photo by Ian, Don't ask me how I did it - It was a lot harder to do in Photoshop than Corel!!!
Photographs thanks to (and are copyright of) Stephen and Ian, Photos were re-sized and tweaked in Photoshop 6
Logs were typed up in Fastlog 3.0.4 and converted using Convert for Fastlog- then dumped into Excel and saved in HTML format...
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