[HCARC] RF Grounding Counterpoise

[Gary and Arlene Johnson]

Sounds like a man who we need to design a mission for.  Lets see, I know of at least 3 guys who are new Generals, and Dale is teaching a class in January to hopefully make a bunch more.  All of these people are going to need to set up shacks with HF radios in them which require some different things like different antennas, etc.  Putting together a mini class of your old class you taught might be a way to keep the Nominating Board from trying to make you the President.  No, seriously, I would pay for a class like that.  A Station assembly, grounding, antenna design and building, and some operating class would be GREAT.  For instance, I have 5 copies of older Operating Manuals plus the Low band DXing book, because they each teach something different.  Unless someone is shown, or they take the time to read, things like following an operator who is working split as they listen at different frequencies to manage a pile-up takes a long time to learn.  Heck, just learning to PROPERLY operate split probably takes a long time to learn.  Add to that there are differences in working "SPLIT" for those with old radios, for those with radios that are set up to work split, and for those with two receivers in the same radio where working "split"  is much easier as they are not really working split at all - they just have two receivers tuned to 2 different frequencies.

I am interested - when do we start??

Gary J
N5"BAA"
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ALoneStarYank at aol.com 
  To: qltfnish at omniglobal.net 
  Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 10:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [HCARC] RF Grounding Counterpoise


  For 20 years I taught newbies about the proper way to do things in amateur radio. It was an 10 week class which I held several times a year often running beyond the allotted time. Not only book learning, but also practical with station assembly and operating, show and tell, etc.   In the early 1990's the United Nations Amateur Radio Club asked the ARRL if anyone could fix their station at the UN which had fallen into disarray. Frank Fallon, a league official, asked me to do it for them.
  Bob  W2IK

  In a message dated 10/6/2012 10:01:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time, qltfnish at omniglobal.net writes:
    you do understand the problems of a newbie
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