[AK-VHF] POTA Run Itinerary 2022-10-15

[Brandon Clark]

Ed and Jason,

A pizza stop sounds great, but I don't think I'll be able to make the timing work if I'm going to hit all the stops. Maybe during the next contest? I still want to do another Homer rover run, and next time arrange some contacts with hams in Kodiak.

Jason, I'll have to put together some notes on the yagis I designed and built for my rover setup. They don't require any baluns, and can be built entirely from locally available materials. For example up here it's hard to find 3/16" aluminum rod, but 1/4" is pretty much always available. The driven elements are simple 3/8" copper plumbing pipe.

A lot of older yagi designs require baluns of some sort, usually a 4:1, a delta match, or a gamma feed. These days I wouldn't recommend building any of those designs though. Designs exist which have good gain and clean patterns with nothing more than a common mode choke at the feed. The GO8KSC website has a number of easy to build designs which use a very modern approach. I hwve two on the roof right now.

Brandon Clark, KL7BSC
https://brandonclarklabs.com/

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On Sep 24, 2022, 12:05, Jason A. Thomas, N4IJB BP51 wrote:

> This schedule sounds great. My TS520 is putting out weird metering now. While I haven't hooked it up to a wattmeter yet to confirm power output and troubleshoot, (I'm doing that today), I may need help from someone on this new issue. Also, at some point, I want to build VHF and UHF yagis, and I would like to make high quality ones so some help would be appreciated by someone at some point. I need someone to talk me through matching or baluns involved in the construction. I get the theory, but actually applying it to building one is something I would like help on. I made a tape measure yagi years ago for foxhunts but I want to build a nice one to last and to transmit from. 73, Jason A. Thomas, N4IJB 11337 Dawn St Apt A Eagle River, AK 99577 (704) 734-8423 BP51 Included is my GPG public key that can be used to send encrypted emails to me. For more information visit https://www.openpgp.org. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, September 24th, 2022 at 11:04, Ed Cole  wrote: > Brandon, > > That will be a busy weekend: first weekend of ARRL EME Contest (50-1296 > MHz; I hope to be on 2m-eme). > > Comment Lunch after Capt'n Cook, closest is in Nikiski, then Kenai. > If your crew would like to stop at my qth, we could pre-order pizza > delivered (BYO drinks; we have coffee). > > I can operate 20m/15m10m triband yagi > 6m yagi is pointed SE > 2m is omni vertical (or eme yagi array if installed) > No antennas for 80m/40m until I get a man-lift to raise them at 40-foot > on 50-foot HF tower. > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > > On 9/24/2022 10:44 AM, Brandon Clark via ak-vhf wrote: > > > Good morning group, > > > > I spent some time looking up locations and came up with the following tentative timetable for the POTA run on October 15th and 16th: > > > > Friday > > • 1900: activate Kenai National Wildlife Refuge K-0149 (HF only) > > • Camp out > > > > Saturday > > • 1000-1200: activate Captain Cook State Recreation Area K-7194 (all bands) > > ◦ Get lunch somewhere > > • 1300-1500: Kasilof River State Recreation Site K-7200 (All bands) > > • 1700: activate Johnson Lake State Recreation Area K-7199 (HF only) > > > > • Camp out > > Sunday > > • 0900-1100: activate Clam Gulch State Recreation Area K-7195 (all bands) > > • 1300-1500: activate Crooked Creek State Recreation Site K-7196 (HF only) > > • 1800-2000: three-fer at a single site (HF only) > > > > ◦ Chugach National Forest K-4447 > > ◦ Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area K-7884 ◦ Iditarod National Historic Trail K-4570 > > > > Brandon Clark, KL7BSC > > https://brandonclarklabs.com/ > > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > ______________________________________________________________ > > ak-vhf mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ak-vhf > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > ak-vhf mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ak-vhf > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ ak-vhf mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ak-vhf Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html