[CTSARA] HF Operating/Mentoring Opportunity

[Jon Perelstein]

At the Sept meeting, a couple of people expressed an interest in finding a
place where they can go to operate on HF because they can't operate HF from
their homes.  There were also some people who expressed an interest in some
sort of mentoring so that they can learn how to operate on HF and how to
use their rigs effectively (for example, my rig's manual tells me what knob
to turn to engage the notch filter, but I don't have the foggiest notion of
what a notch filter does or why I would use one).

The Fairfield Club has a very nice clubhouse that has an HF console, with a
beam antenna for 10-15-20 and a dipole for 40 meters.  They meet there
pretty much every Saturday morning from around 8:30 until around noon and
they have graciously invited our members to visit on Saturday mornings and
use their equipment. As part of that, we could set up formal training or
informal mentoring so that people can better learn how to operate HF.  They
went so far as to suggest that our members could bring their own radios
that they would hook up to their antennas so that you can get mentoring
while you operate (we'll have to figure out the power supply connections or
you can bring your own power supplies).

This is a really great opportunity for people who can't normally get on HF
or need to learn how to better use their HF radios.

If you're interested, please email me and we'll arrange to go up there
together as a group.  I would prefer that we do something on a group level
the first few times while we get comfortable and familiar with the
arrangement and then after that we can make it an individual initiative
type thing.

The Fairfield Club's clubhouse is at the Fairfield Fire Training Center,
which is not too far from exit 21 of I-95.

73s
Jon, WB2RYV