[Elecraft] K5P and VP8STI

[kd7gc]

My good friend Stan, KE5EE, currently has 22 slots on the K5P.  On Thursday
he put up temporary inverted V's for both 60 and 160.  Within 12 hours, he
had worked K5P on 60 SSB and CW, as well as on 160 CW.  He doesn't have as
many slots with the VP8, but he hasn't really been chasing them.  He is
having fantastic success with his 3 element 80 meter M Square, as well as
the first of his DB42's, this one at 120 feet.  The bottom DB42 will be
going up shortly at 72 feet.  We are both looking forward to seeing how well
the stacked DB42's work.  The first of his 200 foot rotating towers will be
going up shortly with a stack of 6 three element SteppIrs, mostly for 17
meters thru 10 meters.  The rotating base has been fully installed, and the
8 foot by 8 foot building near the base of the tower is up and filled with
all of the control boards for the 6 stack.  K7NV and K1TO will be going to
Molino to build the tower, and SteppIr's techs and engineers, led by K7MX,
will be going there to assemble the yagis and tune them so that they can be
installed on the tower.  We both are anxious to see how the 6 stack will
perform.  The next 200 foot rotating tower will go up 2 or 3 months after
the SteppIr tower.  It will have 6 over 6 over 6 over 6 on 20, and 3 over 3
over 3 over 3 on 40.  The next step in the project will be the 4 square on
160 with several receive arrays.  The rest of the towers and antennas will
follow, including a stacked pair of 80's and a converted 2  element Optibeam
80 meter yagi for 60 meters.  So far, so good.  The only failure so far has
been the OR2800 rotator turning the 3 element 80.  High winds went thru one
night and totally destroyed the rotator.  Kurt will be bringing a new prop
pitch to replace the chewed-up OR2800.  I am really looking forward to
getting the remote capability installed.  I told Stan that I just might take
down my whole station and just use his via remote, HiHi.

 

Alan - N7MIT

 

 





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