[FADCA] It was faster than it seemed!

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:25:09 -0500

Hi Bud....

Good to see your hard work paying off with success..

73 Doug

bud Thompson wrote:
> 
> Deltona
> Sunday March 31 1800EST
> 
> This morning we had 123% success with our pre-demo vhf/hf demonstration for tomorrow's show at the Deltona EOC.  For the HF WL2K/Airmail test I prepared a short note addressed to the FADCA email group with cc: to John Fink, the contact at the EOC who was working with us.  Six minutes after I finished linking with WB5KSD near Dallas on 20M, John came walking down the hall with a printed copy of the message.
> 
> I wondered what happened to the FADCA copy - then it arrived just a few minutes ago here on my e-mail.  I realize now that the input to the fadca mailman was not from my normal e-mail but from [email protected] which is not registered on fadca.  I was surprised that it came through at all... bet Bill did it- Thanks, Bill.
> 
> The message was received by [email protected] at 10:58 EST- about four minutes after I finished the link with WB5KSD.
> 
> We'll do it again tomorrow and include the Chief's e-mail!
> 
> The G5RV antenna at the EOC is only about 25 ft off the pavement - and has 4:1 VSWR on 40 and not much better on 80.  It is too high to use on 30, but great on 20m.  I'll be meeting with the City later this week to discuss antennas at the new EOC - we'll have a better HF wire then.
> That said, we worked WL2K stations in TX and IL between 1020 and 1050 EST.  Three others we tried were probably busy on other frequencies.
> 
> 73,
> bud N0IA
> 
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