[AK-VHF] Happy New Year

Thu Jan 3 13:32:53 EST 2013

Paul,

Sorry, my intent was informative, but may have come across sounding 
exclusionary.  You certainly are the most active promoter for the AVG 
that is not a full-time resident in Alaska.  As a member of the board 
from the founding of the group in 2005, a significant leader in our Group.

Probably not many of our members are aware that the three member 
board is made up of one representative for Alaska residents and one 
for non-residents.  The third member represents all members.  The 
purpose was to provide leadership with points of view and 
representation from members, irrespective of where they live, while 
preserving the Alaska orientation: "interest in VHF+ operation in Alaska".

You have been one of the few who have run a VHF dxpedition to 
previously unworked part of Alaska (KL7FF).  As our contest/awards 
Chair, you work for all of us interested in VHF+, and that includes 
non-members.

Sorry if my poor writing gave any other impression.

BTW I just revised my list of things to accomplish (deleted all that 
had been accomplished in previous years).  I do it for two reasons: 
first is mainly to help me keep my goals in mind, second to let folks 
know what I am working on for the future.  I call it my Project 
Spreadsheet and is located on my website "home page".

Final note:  2013 is the year for elections of board members and 
officers of the Alaska VHF-Up Group.  A link to the constitution and 
bylaws is on the website which spells out this process that is held 
every two years.

73, Ed - KL7UW

At 08:39 AM 1/3/2013, Paul Kiesel wrote:
>Well, I guess I represent members outside of Alaska, but the way I 
>view it is that I am a promoter of weak signal VHFing in Alaska, 
>despite the fact that I don't live in Alaska.  As AVG members know, 
>I also have an Alaskan callsign, KL7FF, which is my "club call". My 
>desire is to use it more often than I have. When I'm not in Alaska, 
>the call is used daily on a D-Star repeater in Ketchikan.
>
>
>In my message, I said that the contest was less than two weeks away. 
>I meant to say three weeks, but I lost track of what my fingers were 
>doing at the keyboard. HI HI.
>
>73, Paul K7CW / VE7IB / KL7FF Trustee
>
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>  From: Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net>
>To: Paul Kiesel <k7cw at yahoo.com>; "ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net" 
><ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:47 PM
>Subject: Re: [AK-VHF] Happy New Year
>
>At 09:00 AM 1/1/2013, Paul Kiesel wrote:
> > Howdy, all you avid AVGers <smile>.
> >
> > I got the new year started with a failed elevation actuator for 
> my 50 MHz EME antenna. Fortunately, we have a sunny day which 
> allows work on the tower. I'll just forego watching the bowl games 
> on TV this time. Beyond fixing the elevation mechanism, I have 
> written a list of things to do in the beginning couple of months of 
> 2013 (I'm not going to call them resolutions because I plan to get 
> them all done!). I have too much stuff piled up in the shack, so 
> some of it needs to get moved temporarily to the crawl space under 
> the house. It's actually not a crawl space, but an unfinished 
> daylight basement - another project destined for completion.
> >
> > Anyway, all these considerations brought to mind the upcoming VHF 
> contest, which is less than two weeks away. So, this being a 
> national holiday for most if not all of us, if you find yourself 
> thinking it might be better not to be such a couch potato, you 
> might consider getting your radios and antennas set up for the 
> contest. Find out who might be planning to do a rove in the contest 
> or maybe think about doing one yourself this time for a change. Now 
> would be a good opportunity to set up some skeds with distant 
> stations for some real weak signal attempts for contest points, 
> multipliers and grid squares for the AVG awards.
> >
> > Here is a link to the AVG Contests page:
> >
> > http://www.qsl.net/a/ak-vhf/Contests/
> >
> > 73 and all the best in 2013!
> >
> > Paul, K7CW
> > AVG Contest Guy
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>Thanks, Paul.
>
>Paul is our "outside" member of the board and our contest/awards 
>manager.  We all know that in Alaska we refer to "outside" as 
>anywhere other than Alaska.  Paul represents our members that reside 
>outside Alaska.
>
>A good reminder that the Jan. 2013 ARRL VHF Contest is only three 
>weekends away.  I hope all you had a good New Year's day and maybe 
>got out to work on some of those projects (or watched the bowl games 
>afteral - I got to work 8-hours at Walmart).
>
>A good development is I have arranged to work Saturdays starting at 
>11am vs 10am so will be able to resume duty as Net 
>Control.  Unfortunately, it will mean having only about 15-minutes 
>at the start of the VHF contest before leaving for work.  I will ask 
>for Saturday off when June contest comes around.  I will be only a 
>few weeks from quitting work to resume retirement at the end of June.
>
>Had some attacks by "murphy" this week.  I discovered one side of my 
>6-elem 6m driven element is bent down 45 degrees (probably by 
>snow/wind) so not sure how well it will operate.  Also developed a 
>short in my 2m transmission line which I hope to resolve before this 
>Saturday (hopefully is just water incursion and not moose stomped 
>feedline).  The wx warm up here in southcentral AK this last week up 
>to +40F may have the cable sitting in melt water.
>
>I am working on putting up a secondary 11-element 2m yagi with 160w 
>rated switched preamp when wx is good for climbing the tower.  This 
>yagi will be tuned to 146-MHz to work FM simplex, repeater freqs. 
>and maybe 144.200 USB.  It will be pointed toward Anchorage with no 
>rotator.  Next spring I hope to add a second yagi to it and install 
>it at 45-feet on tower#2.
>
>This Saturday the net is on 144.200 USB, 9am-10am.  Hope to hear a 
>few of the AK gang on!
>
>73, Ed - KL7UW
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