LAST UPDATE 8/20/00

AMATEUR RADIO STATION

Glenn R. (BOB) Mathews

CQ CONTEST
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K8TQK

EM89je

50, 144, 222, 432, 903, 1296,
2304, 3456Mhz Coming Soon 5760

History: I was first licensed in 1960 as a novice. Then in the spring of 61 I upgraded to Tech. My first VHF band was 6 meters, and first rig was a Heath sixer. Three months and 28 states later, I was hooked on VHF. I have been in Navy and Air Force MARS, and in recent years I have been on HF running traffic to Missionary hams in the Caribbean. On my Mission trips into Haiti I have worked the Sats as DX. I had a call change in 1985 to N8GHU, and in 1996 I got my original call back.

Current station: I have moved to a hilltop in Southern Ohio EM89je and have setup a VHF-UHF contest station...

6m- Kenwood 850 and DownEast transverter with 7ele C3I ant at 50ft.
2m- Yaesu 736r with Henry 2002a 2x-5wl with mm/preamp at 65ft.
222-Yaesu 736r with 280w 6155 mm/preamp 1x7wl at 65ft.
432-Yaesu 736r with 7213 amp mm-preamp and 2xfo22 at 55ft.
903- Transverter with 10w brick and a 33ele looper at 65ft.
1296- 736 10w mm-preamp and a 33 ele looper at 50ft.
2304- mm-transverter 2.5 w with preamp and a 45ele looper at 50 ft.
3456- mm-transverter 2.5 w with preamp and a 45ele looper at 50 ft.
5760 soon to come

Gary Flynn KE8FD and I also run an activity Net on 222.150MHz on Tuesday evening at 8:30 local time here in EM89. The net runs about 1 hour, we take check-ins the first time about and try to set-up skeds for anyone interested.

Name of Contest: ARRL Aug UHF

Call Used: K8TQK
Call of Operator: K8TQK

OPERATING LOCATION
Grid(s) Activated: EM89
Location Name: Ohio
ARRL Section: Great Lakes

Entry Type: Single Operator, Multi-band
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Valid
QSOs Pts/QSO QSO Pts Mult
222 MHz 19 3 57 12
432 MHz 37 3 111 23
902 MHz 9 6 54 7
1296 MHz 10 6 60 6
2304 MHz 4 12 48 4

Total
All Bands 79 330 52

K8TQK CLAIMED SCORE: 17160

August Contest Log August 2000 Contest
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This link is where all my previous contest scores and logs are Contests Scores and Logs

Haiti Trip Feb. 2-10/98

I will be setting up a Satellite Station for HH5FW in Haiti.

We are back from Haiti and here it is!!!
The trip to Haiti was a missions work trip. The goal was to get a satellite system running for Fred, HH5FW. We needed to rebuild a system, installed over four years ago, that had come down in a storm. The exciting part of the trip was getting there. On Monday February 2, we had wind shear while landing in 767 at W. Palm Beach. The pilot called it stunt flying. Then on Tuesday we took off for Haiti, fueled up in the Bahamas and continued in a storm to Haiti. About 90 miles out our DC3 lost its left engine and we turned back. I will let Carolyn tell this part of the story. As Bob says, we turned back, right back into the storm with only one engine. The pilots seemed to receive conflicting information from 2 different towers as to our elevation coming out of the clouds preparatory to landing. Instead of supposedly 800 to 1000 feet above the ground, we were only 100 feet above the ground. There was no time or power for recovery. Together with the effective downdraft from the storm, we rapidly met the ground (AKA crashed)! Neither the plane nor the surrounding trees and brush faired well. The left wing totally buckled up, stopping one inch before the fuel tank. The right engine was broken off, the landing gear smashed and the fuselage crinkled. Inside, luggage, boxes, etc., went everywhere. Even seats were broken. Now for the great news!! Thanks to God, all 26 people on board are alive, well and living all over! A few men received minor rib injuries, one man received a broken back and an instantaneous healing (confirmed by doctors and x-rays and cat scans in Miami Beach, Florida). Bob got splinters in his hand on the walk out through the brush which, by the way, it took our Bahamian rescuers 2 hours to machete through to get to us. My major malfunction was some pretty big (albeit unattractive) bruises and a sore body in general. Strange way to get a Bahamas vacation, huh!? Now Bob can tell you about the boring stuff... On Thursday Fred, Carolyn and I started to rebuild the antennas. We found parts missing and did what is called degashia - make do with what you got! We got the antennas up and running on Saturday and the 435 amp running on Monday the ninth. The 6m beam was also put up on Monday. Fred, HH5FW is now running on AO-10. He should show up on 145.940 after the 22nd. Fred's QSL manager is WD4AVP Pete. If you want more details, please e-mail us.

Left wing from cockpit...

Carolyn wiring rotor control

Carolyn N8JQR wiring up rotor control...

Fred & Bob

Fred HH5FW & Bob K8TQK assembling the 6M Ant...

More pictures from the crash and antennas