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June 21st.
2008
Summer is here and so are the vacations... family
events... honey-do's... etc, which lead to a lack of members on site.
The meet was at Sunken Meadow as planned. The
day started early at 9am as posted on the email reflector. The weather was
with us ( Lou and myself ) as we set up. Good thing we were early as the
crowd started showing at 10am with most tables filled by
11am.
The Item of the day was Lou's new Black Widow
antenna. We were able to set it up and test it against my 33ft wire verticle. It
stands about 20ft and install was a snap ( about 3-4 mins ). The ground radials
clip on the coil ( to change bands with jumper ). Best part was it's small
and bested my wire by 1 s-unit on the different bands. Antenna is now
produced by the Eastern PA QRP club. See the following site for info;
http://www.n3epa.org/Pages/BlackWidowVertical/BWV.htm
All best till next
time,
Tom - aa2vk
Winding some 28g teflon antenna wire for the big
throw
Travel pack of Icom 703, Z-11 tuner,
keys, wire ,etc.
April
12th, 2008
When
I got up this morning I was
feeling bad about making the call for Nicky's...
The weather said rain
but I was looking at CLEAR SKYS!
I did get some relief just before entering Nicky's. It came in
the sound of some good boomers
and a downpour along with some lighting.
Better at Nicky's then having some wire up in the tree playing Ben
Franklin
Today's meet was as always a good
one. We had four members show up at Nicky's (Stan, Ken, Lou,
Myself (Tom)).
Chat and food was good, discussion went from Matchboxes to motorcycle
radios.
Along with door prizes... which all that showed received. Some good
ARRL books were given away to the attendees.
We talked about changing meet locations again.
The four of us think the answer may be to have different locations (as
previously mention).
What may work out is location in rotation basis... to allow others to
attend without the higher miles all the time.
Feel free to post a location on the reflector and set it up for the
next meet, otherwise we will stick to the current locations
One last note... If your going to the park or another location for the
day AND want some company, POST IT.
Put it up on the reflector (where-when) and see who can join you.. even
a days notice is good for these "mini-meets".
72, all best
Tom aa2vk
Sept. 8th, 2007
SM State park was the location
this day,
and nice sunny weather in the 80's (but a bit humid)
kept most of us in the shade. Turn out was good with members
Dermit-kc2mbw, Dick-k2rfp, Stan-w2scb,
John-w2xs, Neil-kc2ky, and myself.
We all made a contact or two... it is amazing what can be done with
simple wire!
Items to see were Dick's small portable rig box/table, John's great
antenna support ( sandworm ? )
and the normal collection of rigs and keys
All best
Tom aa2vk
Pictures of the day thanks to Stan
Dermit,
Dick, Tom with DSW 40(Small wonder labs), showing circuit board.
John
on his K2 with KX-1 at the ready
Neil taking over Dick's small operating station
(table/storagebox
combo) with KX-1
and verticle wire.
John's great find!... Antenna support called the Sandworm (?)
Another view of Dick's small work station.
July 14th, 2007
It was a perfect day....
The weather was great, we had a good crowd and the antenna went up on
the first throw!
Location of Sunken Meadow area 4 was a nice shady area with cool breeze
for the meeting of
Stan-w2scb, Lou-kd2mu, Ken-kc2jdy, Howard-n2got, Tony-ww2w, and
myself Tom-aa2vk.
I arrived on site at about
0930 to hear a contest (IARU ) running, so went right on the air to
work 30+
stations between the swapping of stories with Lou, the second to
show....later others arrived
for more chat and less operating (equipment, field day stories,
etc )... I pulled up stakes at 1430 or so
and later heard the last of the troops packed up at 1900 hours, so it
was a full day of chat and operating.
Equipment on site was a
couple of 703's, an 817, some cw(nice tuning knob Tony) and uhf/vhf
handhelds.
Add to this a "bird cage" dipole and some simple wire in the trees.
All best
Tom aa2vk
703 with
Whiterook tick 4 keyer and Z-11 tuner
Howard in his
portable chair not sharing that nice Starbucks !
Lou and Tom
wondering what's wrong with the key... that plugging in fixes
Tony on 10m with his handheld ( to bird cage dipole )
Lou holding down the end of bird-cage antenna... Tony tells him
to stand still for 4 hours :)
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