[GVARC] Shige and Miki ;N6IJ NEXT picnic/BBQ

[Pat Barthelow]

Folks:

WOW!  Our expert japanese ham friends sure know how to select and BBQ  the 
best in Tri-tips!  They got them special, they said from the Stanford 
Shopping Center. (They looked REALLY aged...Completely Jet Black, at first I 
had my doubts, but they cooked up, tasting incredible.
Anyone know of these kinds of marinated Tritips?

We had a grand time the N6IJ BBQ.  A bunch showed up from a diversity of 
sources.  Thanks all for coming and, please come again, soon.
We had, Bob, KF6ZYJ, fresh from Auckland, returning from the Auckland port 
call of the Golden bear, Of course, Shige-San, JH1GNU  and Miki-San, JH1SBE 
from Tokyo, regular business visitors to the Bay Area, Bruce, AC6DN, from 
Santa Cruz, Chris, KD6IXG and Jeff, KG6KCO, from Monterey,  Pat Ready, a 
fellow Marina Rotarian, Dave McCall, a former Chair for the City of Marina 
Recreation Commission, Kit Kohlmoos, W6ISO, and another NCCC member with him 
(ouch..sorry, can't fetch the name or call from the memory cells.)  Same 
with a ham from Watsonville, who brought more than a pound of Abalone!  WOW! 
was that special!
What a rare treat!  He had personally, legally, harvested them up 
north...the shells (2ea) were, I would estimate, 10 inches average in 
diameter!

Shige and Miki, were sure sharp on things RF!  Maybe what I observed is 
normal for a REAL RF engineer, or maybe not, but it was impressive to learn 
about RF antenna topics from Shige.  I showed him the original, personal 
Antenna notebook we have at N6IJ, that was Bill Orr's, W6SAI.  Bill had 
hundreds of pages of notes and smith charts developed, going back to the 
mid-60s, of antennas he experimented with.  We looked at various matching  
networks W6SAI had designed, and the Smith Charts, and also saw in an RF 
design manual, that often had the lumped components values pictured, labeled 
with frequency independent reactance units (inductive or capacitive ohms). 
Shigi instantly called out the values of inductance or capacitance needed 
for a given frequency. I understood the RF stuff, mostly, but Shigi-San and 
Miki-San were RF masters, for sure.
Then, we all went down the hill to take (the now, obligatory) pictures at 
the DX drive signpost, and the 599 Mailbox, which we should post, soon....


Miki, and Shige will be back, (about 3 to 4 Bay Area business visits per 
year), and want to operate a contest at N6IJ, that will be in Synch with 
their visits..
Anyway, stand by for a date announcement for our next Picnic at 
N6IJ....maybe in conjunction with a contest...

NEXT PICNIC at N6IJ:

Our next probable picnic/BBQ will be probably around August 24, triggered by 
the return of the Sailors/Sailorettes/Ham radio operators  (Students from 
CSUMB) from the Ocean Spanning Golden Bear Cruise.  I am sure they will have 
lots of sea stories to tell, and pictures to share, having travelled from 
Honolulu to Fiji,to Brisbane, to Ackland, Tahiti, and the long run home to 
Vallejo.

73, de Pat,
n6ij@hotmail.com














>From: "Dale Jr, William" <william.dale.jr@lmco.com>
>To: "'Pat Barthelow'" <meamonte@hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: Shige and Miki;N6IJ picnic/BBQ
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:45:27 -0700
>
>I tried to get down there and got caught in the Gilroy Festival traffic - 2 
>hours got me only to Morgan Hill!  Then the truck started overheating so I 
>had to abort the trip.
>
>Hope to get down there sometime.
>  Bill N2RHV
>
>

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