[CTSARA] HF Operating/Mentoring Opportunity

[Andrew Rosca]

Many moons ago when I first came to the US and was studying at the
University of Bridgeport I had the pleasure of visiting the Fairfield
clubhouse several times. They are a bunch of very nice hams who are very
welcoming and eager to teach (just like our own bunch). I don't think any
of us should be intimidated to pop in there at any time.

That being said, I think it would be nice to pay them a visit as an
organized group. I'd certainly be interested.

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:34 PM, <ctsara-request at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

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> From: Jon Perelstein <jon.perelstein at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CTSARA] HF Operating/Mentoring Opportunity
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> 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
>
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