[ADXA] KH1 Baker Island

Wed Jul 4 21:39:57 EDT 2018

Sunnye showed no interest is cooking the squirrel!  I was expecting a chunk
of carbon on the ground but it didn't have visible burn marks.

So you have a "Triad" versus a "Gang of Four".  My first homebrew amp was a
4 X 811a  deal.  My power supply had 866 Mercury Vapor rectifier
tube...cool purple glow. It didn't have  a band switch...just tap a
different point on the coil...did 80, 40 and 20.  Bill, WA5AVO, helped me
build it and supplied a lot of the parts.  No telling what the IMD specs
were...pretty rotten I'm sure.

Since retirement I've turned into even more of a night owl.  If it weren't
for the dog staring at me a 7:30am to go for a walk I'd probably stay up
even longer.

I built the 8 ele 432 WA5VJB yagi when I started Roving.  Then I made a 6L
222 VJB special.  They work very well and they really cheap and simple.

73,
Pat, W5VY

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Nick Kennedy <kennnick at gmail.com> wrote:

> How'd that squirrel taste?
>
> Pat, my AL-811A is just a 3-holer, but I've never used it except on 160.
> Well, a few years ago I did use it for a needed entity on 20 meters, who
> seemed immune to my 100 watt calls.
>
> I can see I'm never going to compete in the DX world with guys who carry
> on email conversations at 1:00 to 3:00 AM.
>
> Bumping up the frequency a bit - as my latest time waster I'm thinking of
> making some of those WA5VJB cheap yagis, so when it's time to rove again I
> can do it a little better equipped.
>
> 73-
>
> Nick, WA5BDU
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:18 AM Pat Patterson <patw5vy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dennis,
>> Glad you improvised to get KH1 in your log on 12M.  They were pretty weak
>> here and peaked briefly for about 5-10 min.  We seem to have a constant
>> battle with noise.  We had a thunderstorm about 5pm today and I
>> thought...great the rain will quieten down some of the noise.  It dried out
>> before 12M opened to KH1!  A couple of weeks ago Sunnye and I were sitting
>> out on the deck and we heard a big bang then our generator cranked up.  I
>> guessed it was the fuse on our distribution transformer and I was right.
>> We called Entergy and left to go to dinner in a cool spot....our 8KVA
>> generator won't handle the HVAC compressor.   Got a text from our security
>> system that power had been restored and message from the Entergy tech that
>> an "animal" had caused the outage.  Got home and found a squirrel near the
>> base of the pole.  The tech had added animal guard insulators on the
>> transformer HV terminals and the combination switch/fuse holder.  I noticed
>> the next day that the noise level from that direction had dropped a bunch
>> on 2M.  So, I'm guessing there was some loose hardware that got tightened
>> when the new insulators were added?  We live on the lake and KH1 is across
>> the lake....about 250 yards of water to the other side.  Most of the time
>> it is much quieter when I'm pointed over the lake. But their is something
>> across the lake that at times generates S3-4 noise on HF and S2-3 on 6M and
>> 2M.   Haven't figured out a pattern yet.  I've powered off everything in
>> the house and confirmed it's coming from across the lake.  Without
>> challenges DXing would be boring!
>>
>> Try to stay cool.
>>
>> 73,
>> Pat
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:08 PM, Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That was me on 12 SSB.  K5UR also worked him, and I think Jim got
>>> through OK.  I have a 12/17 meter Force 12 antenna on a  tower close to the
>>> house and the street and the noise level is horrible.  I ended up using the
>>> C3 that has a 4:1 SWR on 12M and ran only about 300 watts.   It's about 100
>>> ft from the house and noise is not a problem.  I need to do something,
>>> maybe let the C3 be the receive antenna and transmit on the F-12.  Or solve
>>> the noise, but there are too dang many modems, routers, computers, etc
>>> nowdays.
>>>
>>> So far, I have them on 20, 17, and 15 CW, 20, 17, and 12 SSB, and 20,
>>> 17, and 15 FT8.  I guess I'm not much of an early riser - no low band
>>> contacts.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Dennis, W5RZ
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Pat Patterson <patw5vy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bruce,
>>>> Glad the propagation gods smiled on you this evening.  The first few
>>>> days they were hard to hear on any band.  Things have improved the last
>>>> couple of evenings.  I managed to work them on 12M SSB a few minutes ago.
>>>> I heard them calling Jim, WB5AAA, but a DQRMer was tunning up and I didn't
>>>> hear a completion of the QSO....hope you got 'em Jim.  Also heard W5RZ or
>>>> N5RZ working them....think it was Dennis.
>>>>
>>>> Nick, glad you and your "gang of four" (811As) snagged them on
>>>> 15CW...good deal.
>>>>
>>>> 73,
>>>> Pat, W5VY
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 8:15 PM, BRUCE PLANTZ <k9oz at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I had just about given up on KH1 and it looked like I was running out
>>>>> of out of time, after a couple of fruitless early morning attempts. But
>>>>> when I came home from dinner tonight they were on 20 CW louder than I'd
>>>>> heard them yet. So I dived into the pileup and got them in the log after
>>>>> only 20 minutes or so. That felt good.
>>>>> Bruce K9OZ
>>>>>
>>>>> On July 3, 2018 at 2:36 AM HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, been up since 1AM and seems like all bands in use are in FT8
>>>>> mode of some sort, it varies. You might know they are NOT on SSB or CW on
>>>>> 40 or 80m. So, guess back to bed and maybe awaken at 6AM or so. Appears the
>>>>> ops are very hot and tired and most are trying to sleep some even tho just
>>>>> an hour past their sunset. Chasing DX is a challenge. Have Baker Island on
>>>>> all bands from past years but RTTY was an ATNO and now only need 60m QSO.
>>>>> Unfortunately they will only be on a short time tomorrow nite I am told.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gud luck DXing guys, I am sure nobody in the ADXA is up at this time..
>>>>> HI
>>>>>
>>>>> San @ 2:37AM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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