From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Fri Aug 1 03:04:15 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 02:04:15 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Opening Club Station Saturday For 10-10 Contest Message-ID: <3F808B6216BE4E7898A0495E187A5268@GaryPC> A few Tech level club members and I will be operating Saturday at the Red Cross during the 10-10 SSB Contest in an attempt for the Tech?s to accumulate the required ten 10-10 Club member contacts for 10-10 Club membership. It?s a great time for people to get on the air ? ASSUMING 10 meters is open for business (come on sun ? you can do it). Email me at N5BAA at WCC.NET if you are interested in operating. I am also planning on operating the club station during the Texas QSO party at the end of Sept. for anyone interested in operating. Gary J N5BAA From tower2 at stx.rr.com Fri Aug 1 07:34:19 2014 From: tower2 at stx.rr.com (Harvey N. Vordenbaum) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 06:34:19 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Opening Club Station Saturday For 10-10 Contest In-Reply-To: <3F808B6216BE4E7898A0495E187A5268@GaryPC> References: <3F808B6216BE4E7898A0495E187A5268@GaryPC> Message-ID: <000601cfad7c$88ed3270$9ac79750$@rr.com> Have a look at: http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=28&ML=M&Map=W2LN&DXC=N&HF=N&GL=N To see activity on 10M and other bands. Hv -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 2:04 AM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Opening Club Station Saturday For 10-10 Contest A few Tech level club members and I will be operating Saturday at the Red Cross during the 10-10 SSB Contest in an attempt for the Tech?s to accumulate the required ten 10-10 Club member contacts for 10-10 Club membership. It?s a great time for people to get on the air ? ASSUMING 10 meters is open for business (come on sun ? you can do it). Email me at N5BAA at WCC.NET if you are interested in operating. I am also planning on operating the club station during the Texas QSO party at the end of Sept. for anyone interested in operating. Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Fri Aug 1 16:23:38 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 15:23:38 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Opening Club Station Saturday For 10-10 Contest In-Reply-To: <400E070C7514421291C78F31E76BF9CA@GalePC> References: <3F808B6216BE4E7898A0495E187A5268@GaryPC> <400E070C7514421291C78F31E76BF9CA@GalePC> Message-ID: <3C56C401D8994C56AD53789018DA475F@GaryPC> Well, I doubt we will be at Red Cross for that long ? but long enough for people who want to work 10 meter SSB can do so. The 10 meter contests I have worked have been fun, low pressure affairs. Gary J N5BAA From: galeheise at windstream.net Sent: Friday, August 1, 2014 10:58 AM To: Gary J - N5BAA Subject: Re: [HCARC] Opening Club Station Saturday For 10-10 Contest Gary- Good luck. Whenever there is a 10 meter contest people seem to come out of the woodwork. I operated in one several years ago and was working people past midnight, something I had never thought possible. Gale From: Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 2:04 AM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Opening Club Station Saturday For 10-10 Contest A few Tech level club members and I will be operating Saturday at the Red Cross during the 10-10 SSB Contest in an attempt for the Tech?s to accumulate the required ten 10-10 Club member contacts for 10-10 Club membership. It?s a great time for people to get on the air ? ASSUMING 10 meters is open for business (come on sun ? you can do it). Email me at N5BAA at WCC.NET if you are interested in operating. I am also planning on operating the club station during the Texas QSO party at the end of Sept. for anyone interested in operating. Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4744 / Virus Database: 3986/7962 - Release Date: 08/01/14 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Fri Aug 1 21:04:15 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 20:04:15 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Alcohol Free Fuel Message-ID: <5C0E27FF0E8A47FB9CF469467B68F49C@GaryPC> For those of us who have gotten tired of replacing carburators on chainsaws and other lawn and garden equipment and who can?t justify buying the $5.99 a liter synthetic fuel at Home Depot, et al, C&W Fuels in Hondo carries Pure-Gas ? No 10% ethanol added. It?s $4.05 per gallon, but if you happen to be down that way it is worth a stop to bring 10-20 gallons back. Your outboard motor and generator will thank you too. There is a place in Castroville that I understand has it also. I checked at our Fuel Distributors in Kerrville and as usual they have no knowledge of how to get it. Go figure!! Gary J N5BAA From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sun Aug 3 20:31:49 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:31:49 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Texas QSO Party From Palo Duro Canyon State Park Message-ID: Is anyone interested in a weekend trip to Palo Duro Canyon State Park next year to operate from there during the 2015 Texas QSO Party?? I sent an email to them inquiring about the availability of their cabins that they have that are located on the rim of the canyon and that have electricity and air conditioning. Info on the cabins below: www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/palo-duro-canyon/fees-facilities/cabins Gary J N5BAA From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sun Aug 3 21:54:55 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 20:54:55 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Texas QSO Party From Palo Duro Canyon State Park In-Reply-To: <1407115094.37697.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web160302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1407115094.37697.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web160302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: It might be the closest thing that most of us ever get to go on a DXpedition of sorts. I sent the Palo Duro Canyon folks an email today to find out more particulars ? like if the cabins are already booked or how to book them in advance. I can see this ?CQ CQ CQ, this is N5BAA N5BAA calling CQ Texas QSO Party from the rim of Palo Duro Canyon, Texas and standing buy for a call.? And then the radio explodes in QSO?s ? livin the dream!!! Gary J N5BAA From: Bob Richie Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 8:18 PM To: Gary J - N5BAA Subject: Re: [HCARC] Texas QSO Party From Palo Duro Canyon State Park Hey, Gary - count me in for this. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gary J - N5BAA ; To: ; Subject: [HCARC] Texas QSO Party From Palo Duro Canyon State Park Sent: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 12:31:49 AM Is anyone interested in a weekend trip to Palo Duro Canyon State Park next year to operate from there during the 2015 Texas QSO Party?? I sent an email to them inquiring about the availability of their cabins that they have that are located on the rim of the canyon and that have electricity and air conditioning. Info on the cabins below: www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/palo-duro-canyon/fees-facilities/cabins Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4744 / Virus Database: 3986/7976 - Release Date: 08/03/14 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Mon Aug 4 17:59:27 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 16:59:27 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Sticker SHOCK Message-ID: Needed to place an alternative (call it a backup ) water line under our road since the County is repaving and will dig the trench for me and pave over it for free. Am putting in 30 feet of 4 inch that protects two 1 inch water lines and a 1 1/2 inch electrical conduit for future use if I were to purchase the land on the other side of the road from my neighbor. Has anyone seen the cost of 4? PVC lately??? $19.33 for a 10? section, $4.00 and change for each coupling. WOW!!! Need 17-18 sections to get to where I want to put my tower. Am going to have to rethink what I put the coax and rotator control lines in to protect them ? maybe in the 4 inch lighter duty pipe that has the holes along the bottom except for where it runs under my road where I would use Sched 40 PVC. Any other ideas?? Gary J N5BAA From bucket at janeandjohn.org Mon Aug 4 18:44:09 2014 From: bucket at janeandjohn.org (John Canfield) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:44:09 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Sticker SHOCK In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53E00CB9.70105@janeandjohn.org> Have you compared prices for doing multiple 1" pipe or 2" pipe? John WB5THT On 8/4/2014 4:59 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote: > Needed to place an alternative (call it a backup ) water line under our road since the County is repaving and will dig the trench for me and pave over it for free. Am putting in 30 feet of 4 inch that protects two 1 inch water lines and a 1 1/2 inch electrical conduit for future use if I were to purchase the land on the other side of the road from my neighbor. Has anyone seen the cost of 4? PVC lately??? $19.33 for a 10? section, $4.00 and change for each coupling. WOW!!! Need 17-18 sections to get to where I want to put my tower. Am going to have to rethink what I put the coax and rotator control lines in to protect them ? maybe in the 4 inch lighter duty pipe that has the holes along the bottom except for where it runs under my road where I would use Sched 40 PVC. > > Any other ideas?? > > Gary J > N5BAA > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Mon Aug 4 19:40:53 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 18:40:53 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Sticker SHOCK In-Reply-To: <53E00CB9.70105@janeandjohn.org> References: <53E00CB9.70105@janeandjohn.org> Message-ID: <275018928BEF431882AD844E2853620E@GaryPC> 10' of 1 1/2" grey electrical conduit at Home Depot is $5.67 minus 10% for being a Vet which is 57 cents per foot more or less and has the bell end so no connector is needed. I guess I need to check the price of 2 inch grey conduit too. Conduit can cost as much as the tower. I shudder to think of the price of concrete for the base which is over $100 per cubic yard delivered. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: John Canfield Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 5:44 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [HCARC] Sticker SHOCK Have you compared prices for doing multiple 1" pipe or 2" pipe? John WB5THT On 8/4/2014 4:59 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote: > Needed to place an alternative (call it a backup ) water line under our > road since the County is repaving and will dig the trench for me and pave > over it for free. Am putting in 30 feet of 4 inch that protects two 1 > inch water lines and a 1 1/2 inch electrical conduit for future use if I > were to purchase the land on the other side of the road from my neighbor. > Has anyone seen the cost of 4? PVC lately??? $19.33 for a 10? section, > $4.00 and change for each coupling. WOW!!! Need 17-18 sections to get to > where I want to put my tower. Am going to have to rethink what I put the > coax and rotator control lines in to protect them ? maybe in the 4 inch > lighter duty pipe that has the holes along the bottom except for where it > runs under my road where I would use Sched 40 PVC. > > Any other ideas?? > > Gary J > N5BAA > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4744 / Virus Database: 3986/7979 - Release Date: 08/04/14 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Tue Aug 5 11:01:47 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:01:47 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Field Day Pins Message-ID: <6C54B964E4FF460B99B8647F135B25CD@GaryPC> I have a small collection of ARRL Field Day pins with every date since 2001 covered. Does anyone know when they started making them and does anyone have any that are pre 2001 they would like to part with?? Gary J N5BAA From ccrobins at ktc.com Tue Aug 5 12:04:51 2014 From: ccrobins at ktc.com (Charley & Peggy Robinson) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:04:51 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] HCARC Digest, Vol 40, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53E100A3.2030700@ktc.com> This sounds like a great idea! Me'n the XYL are in! Are you going to make arrangements? Charley, af5ao On 8/5/2014 10:29 AM, hcarc-request at mailman.qth.net wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:31:49 -0500 > From: "Gary J - N5BAA" > To: > Subject: [HCARC] Texas QSO Party From Palo Duro Canyon State Park > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Is anyone interested in a weekend trip to Palo Duro Canyon State Park next year to operate from there during the 2015 Texas QSO Party?? I sent an email to them inquiring about the availability of their cabins that they have that are located on the rim of the canyon and that have electricity and air conditioning. > > Info on the cabins below: > > www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/palo-duro-canyon/fees-facilities/cabins > > Gary J > N5BAA > > ------------------------------ > > From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Wed Aug 6 19:38:52 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:38:52 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] July 2014 Minutes - Don't Faint!!! Message-ID: HILL COUNTRY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Meeting Minutes 3 July 2014 MEETING COMMENCEMENT The meeting was called to order by President Terry Hipskind (W0HIP) who led us in the Pledge Of Allegiance. There were 32 people in attendance with 3 guests from Texas MARS MEMBER AND GUEST RECOGNITION President Hipskind explained the 50/50 and gave out tickets to the following people for having helped during the past month: Dale Gaudier (K4DG) for teaching Morse Code Class, Chuck Brainard (KA1PM) twice for tower work by Harvey Vordenbaum (K5HV) and Bill Tynan (W3XO), Mike Connor (K5MJC) for Field Day tower work, Mort McKenzie (WB2GEZ) for helping Bob Ritchie (K5YB) with his radio and for repair to Ray Owen?s (KF5VNC) radio, to Harvey V. for loaning a mic to Ray Owen, Bob Ritchie and Gale Heise (KM4DR) for helping Hank Folk (KF5QBF), and Ruthie Guida for refreshments. A personal thanks from Gary Johnson (N5BAA) on behalf of all the people at Field Day for the wonderful rolls and banana bread at Field Day. MINUTES AND TREASURERS REPORT The minutes were posted and approved. The Treasurers report was read and approved OLD BUSINESS Repeater Committee: Chuck Brainard and Harvey Vordenbaum (K5HV) have been working on the repeater. 26 July VE Test NEW BUSINESS 25/26 Central States VHF Meeting in Austin BREAK FOR REFRESHMENTS FROM Ruthie Guida The presentation was in two parts: by Gary Johnson (N5BAA) on Field Day Results; Texas Army MARS presentation which was an absolutely great presentation on both the MARS system and on NVIS Antennas and on the Austin Ionosond. It should be noted for all that N5BAA has received copies of all of the slides presented in PDF format and they can be sent out to any interested club member. Just email Gary Johnson at N5BAA at WCC.net. To find the Austin Ionosond info go to TXArmyMARS.org and select resources and then go to solar weather. 50/50 was won by Gary Johnson $28.00/$28.00 Split Submitted: Gary Johnson N5BAA HCARC Secretary 2013/14 From galeheise at windstream.net Thu Aug 7 08:43:49 2014 From: galeheise at windstream.net (galeheise at windstream.net) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 07:43:49 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Estonian Ham Looking for Kerr County Message-ID: <92A0A09E1B184A84871806D6E4386747@GalePC> To All- I?m in Gillespie County not Kerr County but if someone in the club from Kerr County is interested in working and getting a QSL from ES1TU you can pull his email from the cc: list. You can then arrange a QSO via a schedule. Here?s the email that I received: Hi there! This is ES1TU. According to my log we have had a QSO (your callsign KM4DR). I'm a keen county hunter and dont have Kerr county confirmed yet. I have a reason to believe that you are from Kerr county. If that is a case, would you be able to confirm Kerr county for me if I would send you a direct card with SASE and sufficient postage? In case you can - is your mailing address on qrz.com up to date? Here's my current progress with Texas - http://adok.dyndns.org:8090/counties?country=8771325#TX Thanks! Aadu Adok ES1TU Tallinn, Estonia From k5xa at godfather-ridge.com Fri Aug 8 15:19:40 2014 From: k5xa at godfather-ridge.com (John K5XA) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:19:40 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Dick, K5IU's Summerfest Presentation Link - Contesting and DX Antennas for Restricted Lots (On behalf of John Huecksteadt AC4CA) Message-ID: For those of you I said I would email a copy of the PDF, please try this link. If it doesn't work, I'll go ahead and email it, but it is large file, over 4MB. A quick note on horizontal loops (parallel to the ground). The rectangular loop performs as well as the square loop but it better lends itself to attic geometry. So, contrary to what I said, the rectangular loop doesn't so much perform better but performs as well and lends itself to the shape of most attics. Also, Dick emphasized feeding a rectangular loop on the long side and at the corner of a square loop. It's all clearly shown in the "slides." When looking at the pattern charts remember what you're after is maximum gain at a lower take-off angle, not just a lower take-off angle. (Trick Question #2) If you have any problems accessing this file, just email me at john at ac4ca.us. Here is the link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nt9wj3jd8aw0fei/AAAK5O518JR7hx6b-SP7BKuYa/K5IU%20 Austin%20Summerfest%202014.pdf From galeheise at windstream.net Sun Aug 10 21:12:31 2014 From: galeheise at windstream.net (galeheise at windstream.net) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:12:31 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators Message-ID: <52382A09CAAB48FE92E8B486053AE273@GalePC> To All- This is a somewhat humorous story from my old neighborhood in Northern Kentucky where I had the following antennas in the back yard strung up in trees: 1. A top and bottom loaded vertical for 160m. 2. A 10, 15 & 20 meter 2 element quad. 3. A 2 element 10 meter X-Quad (Expanded Quad). 4. A full wavelength vertically oriented 80 meter loop. 5. Two phased cross polarized 2 meter antennas for tracking satellites. 6. An inverted L antenna for 160 meters. I had to put in ground wires, about 90 as I recall, for this antenna. I kept them on my own property and down the back of the property to a street in a green belt. Our daughter is purchasing a house two doors down from this previous QTH and knows the neighbor who now lives in the home adjacent to the old QTH. I received the following email from my daughter tonight after her conversation with the next door neighbor. Dad, Funny story- We were at the festival tonight and we were talking to the next-door neighbors ? she's the one that used to babysit for the Hirts. They told us they were trying to get firewood out of the woods one night and got stuck in a bunch of wires! They said that the neighbor across the street told them that the neighborhood rumor was that dad was a Russian spy! LOL? My XYL sent a note back to our daughter asking, why were they collecting firewood in the Spy?s backyard. Take care, Gale KM4DR From hcarc at mailman.qth.net Sun Aug 10 23:25:04 2014 From: hcarc at mailman.qth.net (Don Murray via HCARC) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:25:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators Message-ID: <43f7b.3aeeb0b4.4119918f@aol.com> Gale... LOVE IT!! Nothing like "creative" neighbors!! ;-) 73 Don W4WJ In a message dated 8/10/2014 8:16:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, galeheise at windstream.net writes: To All- This is a somewhat humorous story from my old neighborhood in Northern Kentucky where I had the following antennas in the back yard strung up in trees: 1. A top and bottom loaded vertical for 160m. 2. A 10, 15 & 20 meter 2 element quad. 3. A 2 element 10 meter X-Quad (Expanded Quad). 4. A full wavelength vertically oriented 80 meter loop. 5. Two phased cross polarized 2 meter antennas for tracking satellites. 6. An inverted L antenna for 160 meters. I had to put in ground wires, about 90 as I recall, for this antenna. I kept them on my own property and down the back of the property to a street in a green belt. Our daughter is purchasing a house two doors down from this previous QTH and knows the neighbor who now lives in the home adjacent to the old QTH. I received the following email from my daughter tonight after her conversation with the next door neighbor. Dad, Funny story- We were at the festival tonight and we were talking to the next-door neighbors ? she's the one that used to babysit for the Hirts. They told us they were trying to get firewood out of the woods one night and got stuck in a bunch of wires! They said that the neighbor across the street told them that the neighborhood rumor was that dad was a Russian spy! LOL? My XYL sent a note back to our daughter asking, why were they collecting firewood in the Spy?s backyard. Take care, Gale KM4DR ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From kerryk5ks at hughes.net Mon Aug 11 09:34:39 2014 From: kerryk5ks at hughes.net (Kerry Sandstrom) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:34:39 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators In-Reply-To: <52382A09CAAB48FE92E8B486053AE273@GalePC> References: <52382A09CAAB48FE92E8B486053AE273@GalePC> Message-ID: <53E8C66F.7070707@hughes.net> Gale, Great story. Does your daughter now deny that she knows you, much less that you're her father? So, you're from Georgia, the one who's capital is Tbilisi not Atlanta! You were fortunate to be in northern Kentucky, other places might have suspected you were using that radio stuff to talk to the mother ship on the far side of the moon or using it to report the locations of stills and marijuana plantations to the Feds. Kerry On 8/10/2014 8:12 PM, galeheise at windstream.net wrote: > To All- > > This is a somewhat humorous story from my old neighborhood in Northern Kentucky where I had the following antennas in the back yard strung up in trees: > > 1. A top and bottom loaded vertical for 160m. > 2. A 10, 15 & 20 meter 2 element quad. > 3. A 2 element 10 meter X-Quad (Expanded Quad). > 4. A full wavelength vertically oriented 80 meter loop. > 5. Two phased cross polarized 2 meter antennas for tracking satellites. > 6. An inverted L antenna for 160 meters. I had to put in ground wires, about 90 as I recall, for this antenna. I kept them on my own property and down the back of the property to a street in a green belt. > > Our daughter is purchasing a house two doors down from this previous QTH and knows the neighbor who now lives in the home adjacent to the old QTH. > > I received the following email from my daughter tonight after her conversation with the next door neighbor. > > Dad, > > Funny story- We were at the festival tonight and we were talking to the next-door neighbors ? she's the one that used to babysit for the Hirts. They told us they were trying to get firewood out of the woods one night and got stuck in a bunch of wires! They said that the neighbor across the street told them that the neighborhood rumor was that dad was a Russian spy! LOL? > > My XYL sent a note back to our daughter asking, why were they collecting firewood in the Spy?s backyard. > > Take care, > > Gale > KM4DR > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From k5xa at godfather-ridge.com Tue Aug 12 14:03:14 2014 From: k5xa at godfather-ridge.com (John K5XA) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:03:14 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators In-Reply-To: <53E8C66F.7070707@hughes.net> Message-ID: Marijuana plantations??? Where???? -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kerry Sandstrom Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 8:35 AM To: galeheise at windstream.net; HCARC Reflector Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators Gale, Great story. Does your daughter now deny that she knows you, much less that you're her father? So, you're from Georgia, the one who's capital is Tbilisi not Atlanta! You were fortunate to be in northern Kentucky, other places might have suspected you were using that radio stuff to talk to the mother ship on the far side of the moon or using it to report the locations of stills and marijuana plantations to the Feds. Kerry On 8/10/2014 8:12 PM, galeheise at windstream.net wrote: > To All- > > This is a somewhat humorous story from my old neighborhood in Northern Kentucky where I had the following antennas in the back yard strung up in trees: > > 1. A top and bottom loaded vertical for 160m. > 2. A 10, 15 & 20 meter 2 element quad. > 3. A 2 element 10 meter X-Quad (Expanded Quad). > 4. A full wavelength vertically oriented 80 meter loop. > 5. Two phased cross polarized 2 meter antennas for tracking satellites. > 6. An inverted L antenna for 160 meters. I had to put in ground wires, about 90 as I recall, for this antenna. I kept them on my own property and down the back of the property to a street in a green belt. > > Our daughter is purchasing a house two doors down from this previous QTH and knows the neighbor who now lives in the home adjacent to the old QTH. > > I received the following email from my daughter tonight after her conversation with the next door neighbor. > > Dad, > > Funny story- We were at the festival tonight and we were talking to the next-door neighbors - she's the one that used to babysit for the Hirts. They told us they were trying to get firewood out of the woods one night and got stuck in a bunch of wires! They said that the neighbor across the street told them that the neighborhood rumor was that dad was a Russian spy! LOL?? > > My XYL sent a note back to our daughter asking, why were they collecting firewood in the Spy's backyard. > > Take care, > > Gale > KM4DR > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From kerryk5ks at hughes.net Tue Aug 12 14:25:09 2014 From: kerryk5ks at hughes.net (Kerry Sandstrom) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:25:09 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53EA5C05.4040205@hughes.net> Well John, rumor has it almost anyplace in the Pacific Northwest from Northern California to Washington State. Now that it is legal up there, I'm sure they are everywhere. Its a little too dry here in Central Texas I think, but I bet you can find some in the piney woods of East Texas. Note: I'm neither a producer nor a consumer, just my impressions. I bet A-Rod could provide more definitive information! By the way, its nice to see the Red Sox in their usual position at the bottom of the AL - East. How are you doing? I haven't seen or heard you since you left on your road trip to the West Coast. Kerry On 8/12/2014 1:03 PM, John K5XA wrote: > Marijuana plantations??? > > Where???? > > -----Original Message----- > From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kerry > Sandstrom > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 8:35 AM > To: galeheise at windstream.net; HCARC Reflector > Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators > > Gale, > > Great story. Does your daughter now deny that she knows you, much less > that you're her father? > > So, you're from Georgia, the one who's capital is Tbilisi not Atlanta! > > You were fortunate to be in northern Kentucky, other places might have > suspected you were using that radio stuff to talk to the mother ship on > the far side of the moon or using it to report the locations of stills > and marijuana plantations to the Feds. > > Kerry > > > On 8/10/2014 8:12 PM, galeheise at windstream.net wrote: >> To All- >> >> This is a somewhat humorous story from my old neighborhood in Northern > Kentucky where I had the following antennas in the back yard strung up in > trees: >> 1. A top and bottom loaded vertical for 160m. >> 2. A 10, 15 & 20 meter 2 element quad. >> 3. A 2 element 10 meter X-Quad (Expanded Quad). >> 4. A full wavelength vertically oriented 80 meter loop. >> 5. Two phased cross polarized 2 meter antennas for tracking satellites. >> 6. An inverted L antenna for 160 meters. I had to put in ground wires, > about 90 as I recall, for this antenna. I kept them on my own property and > down the back of the property to a street in a green belt. >> Our daughter is purchasing a house two doors down from this previous > QTH and knows the neighbor who now lives in the home adjacent to the old > QTH. >> I received the following email from my daughter tonight after her > conversation with the next door neighbor. >> Dad, >> >> Funny story- We were at the festival tonight and we were talking to the > next-door neighbors - she's the one that used to babysit for the Hirts. They > told us they were trying to get firewood out of the woods one night and got > stuck in a bunch of wires! They said that the neighbor across the street > told them that the neighborhood rumor was that dad was a Russian spy! LOL?? >> My XYL sent a note back to our daughter asking, why were they > collecting firewood in the Spy's backyard. >> Take care, >> >> Gale >> KM4DR >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> HCARC mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > From john at ac4ca.us Fri Aug 8 00:49:50 2014 From: john at ac4ca.us (John AC4CA) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 23:49:50 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Dick, K5IU's Summerfest Presentation Link - Contesting and DX Antennas for Restricted Lots Message-ID: <000001cfb2c4$30b2c4b0$92184e10$@ac4ca.us> For those of you I said I would email a copy of the PDF, please try this link. If it doesn't work, I'll go ahead and email it, but it is large file, over 4MB. A quick note on horizontal loops (parallel to the ground). The rectangular loop performs as well as the square loop but it better lends itself to attic geometry. So, contrary to what I said, the rectangular loop doesn't so much perform better but performs as well and lends itself to the shape of most attics. Also, Dick emphasized feeding a rectangular loop on the long side and at the corner of a square loop. It's all clearly shown in the "slides." When looking at the pattern charts remember what you're after is maximum gain at a lower take-off angle, not just a lower take-off angle. (Trick Question #2) If you have any problems accessing this file, just email me at john at ac4ca.us . https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nt9wj3jd8aw0fei/AAAK5O518JR7hx6b-SP7BKuYa/K5IU%20 Austin%20Summerfest%202014.pdf From jguida at godfather-ridge.com Tue Aug 12 15:10:28 2014 From: jguida at godfather-ridge.com (JGuida GR) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:10:28 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Another Spy Story Message-ID: I have a spy story as well. For a new job, in 1986 I moved to Rocky Hill, CT - kinda down the road from Hartford and Newington. I had gotten the ham radio bug just a little earlier from Ruthie's father - N5HSQ who lived in Arkansas. We were living in Room 262 of Howard Johnson's in Rocky Hill. We actually lived there for around nine months because I couldn't afford an apartment, and my new company was picking up the hotel tab plus per diem. Ruthie found the ARRL, and bought me Tune In The World (w/CW cassette) and the FCC Amateur Radio Handbook. While I was studying for my Novice license, I would sit in my car to listen to the CW cassette. But since I didn't own a cassette player besides what was in the car, I couldn't study the code in our room. So I borrowed an IBM PC from work and loaded a Morse Code program, and some text and word and letter groups. I would turn this on when I went to bed (Ruthie was very understanding) and let it play all night. I figured I could learn while I was asleep! One afternoon when I came home from work, I saw my next (room) door neighbor standing in his doorway with a drink in his hand. He asked me if I wanted to visit with him and have one or two as well. No surprise that I accepted. While we were visiting, he asked me what I did for a living and I told him where I worked and that I was in the IT department. Somewhere in the conversation I told him that I was studying for my amateur radio license. He said "Well that's a relief! I kept hearing that code coming out of your room all night long, and thought maybe you were a spy or something!" He turned out to be a pretty good Happy Hour friend, but I found that the Happy Hour part of our relationship interfered with learning CW! From galeheise at windstream.net Tue Aug 12 19:31:31 2014 From: galeheise at windstream.net (galeheise at windstream.net) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:31:31 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Another Spy Story In-Reply-To: <20140812190959.DRIJ20551.pamxfep07-srv.windstream.net@pacmmta06.windstream.net> References: <20140812190959.DRIJ20551.pamxfep07-srv.windstream.net@pacmmta06.windstream.net> Message-ID: John- I?m glad to hear that I?m not the only alleged spy in the Ham Radio Kingdom. Thanks for sharing your story with me. As Kerry knows, I?ll be taking my Granddaughter to the airport in SA tomorrow after a great 2 week visit. Take care, 73s Gale KM4DR From: JGuida GR Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 2:10 PM To: 'Kerry Sandstrom' ; galeheise at windstream.net ; 'HCARC Reflector' Subject: Another Spy Story I have a spy story as well. For a new job, in 1986 I moved to Rocky Hill, CT - kinda down the road from Hartford and Newington. I had gotten the ham radio bug just a little earlier from Ruthie's father - N5HSQ who lived in Arkansas. We were living in Room 262 of Howard Johnson's in Rocky Hill. We actually lived there for around nine months because I couldn't afford an apartment, and my new company was picking up the hotel tab plus per diem. Ruthie found the ARRL, and bought me Tune In The World (w/CW cassette) and the FCC Amateur Radio Handbook. While I was studying for my Novice license, I would sit in my car to listen to the CW cassette. But since I didn't own a cassette player besides what was in the car, I couldn't study the code in our room. So I borrowed an IBM PC from work and loaded a Morse Code program, and some text and word and letter groups. I would turn this on when I went to bed (Ruthie was very understanding) and let it play all night. I figured I could learn while I was asleep! One afternoon when I came home from work, I saw my next (room) door neighbor standing in his doorway with a drink in his hand. He asked me if I wanted to visit with him and have one or two as well. No surprise that I accepted. While we were visiting, he asked me what I did for a living and I told him where I worked and that I was in the IT department. Somewhere in the conversation I told him that I was studying for my amateur radio license. He said "Well that's a relief! I kept hearing that code coming out of your room all night long, and thought maybe you were a spy or something!" He turned out to be a pretty good Happy Hour friend, but I found that the Happy Hour part of our relationship interfered with learning CW! From tower2 at stx.rr.com Wed Aug 13 07:07:56 2014 From: tower2 at stx.rr.com (Harvey N. Vordenbaum) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:07:56 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Dick, K5IU's Summerfest Presentation Link - Contesting and DX Antennas for Restricted Lots In-Reply-To: <000001cfb2c4$30b2c4b0$92184e10$@ac4ca.us> References: <000001cfb2c4$30b2c4b0$92184e10$@ac4ca.us> Message-ID: <000301cfb6e6$d66e2630$834a7290$@rr.com> The problem is that the last line: Austin%20Summerfest%202014.pdf isn't included in the hyperlink. Copy and paste the whole reference into your search window. Hv -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John AC4CA Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:50 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Dick, K5IU's Summerfest Presentation Link - Contesting and DX Antennas for Restricted Lots For those of you I said I would email a copy of the PDF, please try this link. If it doesn't work, I'll go ahead and email it, but it is large file, over 4MB. A quick note on horizontal loops (parallel to the ground). The rectangular loop performs as well as the square loop but it better lends itself to attic geometry. So, contrary to what I said, the rectangular loop doesn't so much perform better but performs as well and lends itself to the shape of most attics. Also, Dick emphasized feeding a rectangular loop on the long side and at the corner of a square loop. It's all clearly shown in the "slides." When looking at the pattern charts remember what you're after is maximum gain at a lower take-off angle, not just a lower take-off angle. (Trick Question #2) If you have any problems accessing this file, just email me at john at ac4ca.us . https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nt9wj3jd8aw0fei/AAAK5O518JR7hx6b-SP7BKuYa/K5IU%20 Austin%20Summerfest%202014.pdf ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From hcarc at mailman.qth.net Wed Aug 13 18:04:59 2014 From: hcarc at mailman.qth.net (Don Murray via HCARC) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:04:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [HCARC] Fwd: W5KUB Live Webcast Message-ID: <6371b.2160ec57.411d3b0a@aol.com> ____________________________________ From: wa5kub.video4 at gmail.com To: wa5kub.video4 at gmail.com Sent: 8/13/2014 2:44:16 P.M. Central Daylight Time Subj: W5KUB Live Webcast It's time for the 2014 Huntsville Hamfest!! Please join us during our live, online webcast of the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama this weekend, August 16 and 17. To join the webcast go to _http://W5KUB.com_ (http://w5kub.com/) where the fun begins! During the hamfest, W5KUB will interview vendors regarding their latest products, special guests like Charlie Emerson (N4OKL) who represents Huntsville Hamfest; and many other guests. During the live webcast, you can meet and chat with other ham radio operators from all over the world. You could be the winner of one of 35 prizes, valued at $3,600, which will be awarded during the webcast! These prizes are made possible because of our relationship with partners such as GigaParts, Huntsville Hamfest Prize Committee, Ten-Tec, NCG Company, Kantronics, ARRL, MFJ, and more. In the past year over $10,000 in prizes were awarded! Of course, no purchase is necessary to win a prize because we don?t sell anything!! W5KUB is not affiliated with any products or companies. Huntsville Hamfest webcast schedule: ? Friday, August 15: 1400 UTC (9:00 AM CT) Live stream as we drive 200 miles and set up in the afternoon ? Saturday, August 16: 1400 UTC - 2130 UTC (9:00 AM - 4:30 PM CT) Huntsville Hamfest ? Sunday, August 17: 1400 UTC - 2000 UTC (9:00 AM - 3:00 PM CT) Huntsville Hamfest ? Sunday, August 18: 2000 UTC (3:00 PM CT) Live stream as we drive 200 miles from Huntsville to Memphis (approximately 4 hours). There may be some prizes left that were not awarded during the hamfest! Please join our group on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/w5kub/ to keep up with us year-round. Also, please help spread the word by posting this announcement in Facebook and forwarding this message to your ham radio friends that may not have received this message! We'll 'see' you in Huntsville! 73 Tom Medlin, W5KUB _http://w5kub.com_ (http://w5kub.com/) If you would like to be removed from these mailings, please click Reply and type 'Remove' in the subject line. From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Wed Aug 13 20:51:19 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:51:19 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] KWTV Tower coming down Message-ID: Another piece of history coming down end-of-an-era-kwtv-to-take-down-historic-broadcast-tower Gary J N5BAA From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Thu Aug 14 14:47:44 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:47:44 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Aluminum Tubing Message-ID: <73F1892320ED4613A5035E59F7045753@GaryPC> After a trip to Gale Heise?s QTH yesterday to pick up a 40 ft tower, rotater, and beam antenna, I am now the single point source for odd pieces of aluminum tubing in the south Texas area. Seriously, if you are in need of a length of aluminum tubing to make or repair an antenna please email me with what you need and I will take my tape measure and micrometer out to the pile and see if I can provide you what you need. It?s like having the almost complete ?OLD HAM OPERATORS STASH?. Your cost for the part will be an appropriate (determined by you) donation to the repeater fund. Shipping is free if you pick it up or I can meet you in Kerr-Patch at the earliest opportunity. If anyone is interested in making 2 meter vertical, beam, or 6 meter beam antennas there is probably enough aluminum in longer lengths to do that too. The antenna may not end up all that pretty, but then the cost is low too. Gary J N5BAA From thipskind at suddenlink.net Fri Aug 15 09:15:31 2014 From: thipskind at suddenlink.net (Terry Hipskind) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:15:31 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Big Bend Ranch Marathon Message-ID: <6545F80AEAFC474DA09984FB236B7FBA@HipskindMain> If anyone is interested in providing communications for the Big Bend Ranch Marathon, please contact Charles Land (charlesland at gmail.com). His request follows: Subject: Big Bend Ranch Marathon Fellow operators We continue preparations for the 30k/80k marathon in big Bend Ranch on January 18th. We have about 12 posts to cover and really need 2 operators at nearly all posts. Presently we have 9 operators who have said "yes". I have created a broadcast list of those operators who have helped in prior years (or expressed interest) but who have not responded as to whether you can help with the 2015 race. This event is more challenging than prior years. The terrain is more challenging for radio coverage, requiring a mix of portable repeater and cross banding. We won't be able to do on the ground testing until a day or two prior to the event, so we may have last minutes "whoops" to work around. The access is more difficult - with several posts requiring jeep access, and one or two likely requiring access on foot. And almost last, this is an 18 hour event, with much longer hours for several posts, and operation in the dark for several posts. And last (for now) the elevation of this event is between 2000 and 5000 feet - in January, as you know - so we want to be prepared for slightly more weather extremes. From k5xa at godfather-ridge.com Fri Aug 15 18:14:51 2014 From: k5xa at godfather-ridge.com (John K5XA) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:14:51 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] A message from Ruthie N5RJM. I'm sure she won't mind me sharing it. Message-ID: <99FC0EAE-124E-4974-BA9B-8E0FBC2ACA16@godfather-ridge.com> There is an age old question about good news and bad news and which to share first and everyone has their own answer...the general consensus with the medical field is that if it's bad news. you need to give it first, get it over and done with and then give any good news after..I suspect it is to make you remember or dwell only on the good news...so here's the bad news... I have a cancer in my only good lung...yes again ...that little puppy has been sitting there for six years twiddling it's thumbs not doing a damned thing and all of a sudden it has decided to make caca in my left lung. good news is that they found it early and its still very small... I have numerous options available to me at this point and we are exploring Cyberknife treatment...which doesn't involve a knife at all but extremely high doses of radiation. I have known about this for a few weeks now and only my family and one spicy redhead knows about it as I just have had a hard time letting go with the news because I didn't want to worry anyone.... There really isn't anything to tell beyond what I have divulged because the diagnosis is still so early and the treatment in the early stages and I promise will keep you all posted as time goes on and if and when there is anything to tell...so please remember that the I'm not going to be sitting her sucking my thumb and I certainly don't want anyone worrying about me...Please...Ruthieg ruthieg at godfather-ridge.com From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sat Aug 16 14:05:56 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:05:56 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Antenna Mast Message-ID: <110578817EC248528BAD66C4D70F5E13@GaryPC> What do people use for antenna masts on crank up towers, etc. My crank up tower will only have one antenna probably a Cushcraft A4S beam with possibly the 40 meter modification added. It will go to a Yaesu 800DX rotator. Another fixed tower may have a 20-10 meter Hex Beam on it with a Hy-Gain Rotator with possibly a DIY 6 meter beam below it. All I see are Chrome-Moly masts from DX engineering in 22 foot lengths that are in excess of $550.00 delivered. There has got to be a better source than that. Gary J N5BAA From kerryk5ks at hughes.net Sat Aug 16 14:44:31 2014 From: kerryk5ks at hughes.net (Kerry Sandstrom) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:44:31 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Antenna Mast In-Reply-To: <110578817EC248528BAD66C4D70F5E13@GaryPC> References: <110578817EC248528BAD66C4D70F5E13@GaryPC> Message-ID: <53EFA68F.8050907@hughes.net> Gary, I used a 10 foot section from an old 40' TV mast for several years with no problem. It was the next to the bottom section so it was fairly large diameter. About 6 feet was above the tower bearing. I had a 4 element 15 m Yagi just above the bearing, a 4 element 10 m Yagi about 3 feet above the 15 m Yagi and a 5 element 6 m Yagi at the top. I had it up for several years in San Antonio, TX with no problems. Forty years ago hams seemed to be more willing to take a chance than they are now. Also, Yagis back then were considerably smaller than the current crop. Now everything seems to be a status symbol: You have to have the "right" rig, "right" tower the "right" antenna, the "right" mast, etc. I believe this is all foolishness. Things which are about the same size will perform about the same. For your particular situation, The Cushcraft A4S is a small light antenna. If you mount the antenna a foot above the bearing on the top of the tower, almost any mast should work fine. If you want to have the antenna 15 feet above the top of the tower, then you probably need an exotic and expensive mast. Ask your self how much that extra 15 feet is worth? If its worth $550 plus shipping and taxes plus the difficulty of getting it and the tribander installed - Go for it. If it were me, I'd mount it right above the tower bearing and save my money. Kerry On 8/16/2014 1:05 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote: > What do people use for antenna masts on crank up towers, etc. My crank up tower will only have one antenna probably a Cushcraft A4S beam with possibly the 40 meter modification added. It will go to a Yaesu 800DX rotator. Another fixed tower may have a 20-10 meter Hex Beam on it with a Hy-Gain Rotator with possibly a DIY 6 meter beam below it. > > All I see are Chrome-Moly masts from DX engineering in 22 foot lengths that are in excess of $550.00 delivered. There has got to be a better source than that. > > Gary J > N5BAA > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sat Aug 16 17:35:00 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:35:00 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Antenna Mast In-Reply-To: <53EFA68F.8050907@hughes.net> References: <110578817EC248528BAD66C4D70F5E13@GaryPC> <53EFA68F.8050907@hughes.net> Message-ID: <508F1ACF637642DFB52C8146CAB301D1@GaryPC> It's why I ask the questions - that and an article in the latest QST about masts. Paying in excess of $500.00 for a 22 foot piece of metal tubing just sort of struck me as down right STUPID. I guess there are people who can afford that kind of money - I had trouble even thinking of the $129.00 shipping to get it here from DX Engineering. The mast would have cost me as much as the whole tower did. Didn't even think about Texas sales tax too. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Kerry Sandstrom Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 1:44 PM To: Gary J - N5BAA ; HCARC Reflector Subject: Re: [HCARC] Antenna Mast Gary, I used a 10 foot section from an old 40' TV mast for several years with no problem. It was the next to the bottom section so it was fairly large diameter. About 6 feet was above the tower bearing. I had a 4 element 15 m Yagi just above the bearing, a 4 element 10 m Yagi about 3 feet above the 15 m Yagi and a 5 element 6 m Yagi at the top. I had it up for several years in San Antonio, TX with no problems. Forty years ago hams seemed to be more willing to take a chance than they are now. Also, Yagis back then were considerably smaller than the current crop. Now everything seems to be a status symbol: You have to have the "right" rig, "right" tower the "right" antenna, the "right" mast, etc. I believe this is all foolishness. Things which are about the same size will perform about the same. For your particular situation, The Cushcraft A4S is a small light antenna. If you mount the antenna a foot above the bearing on the top of the tower, almost any mast should work fine. If you want to have the antenna 15 feet above the top of the tower, then you probably need an exotic and expensive mast. Ask your self how much that extra 15 feet is worth? If its worth $550 plus shipping and taxes plus the difficulty of getting it and the tribander installed - Go for it. If it were me, I'd mount it right above the tower bearing and save my money. Kerry On 8/16/2014 1:05 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote: > What do people use for antenna masts on crank up towers, etc. My crank up > tower will only have one antenna probably a Cushcraft A4S beam with > possibly the 40 meter modification added. It will go to a Yaesu 800DX > rotator. Another fixed tower may have a 20-10 meter Hex Beam on it with a > Hy-Gain Rotator with possibly a DIY 6 meter beam below it. > > All I see are Chrome-Moly masts from DX engineering in 22 foot lengths > that are in excess of $550.00 delivered. There has got to be a better > source than that. > > Gary J > N5BAA > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4745 / Virus Database: 4007/8047 - Release Date: 08/16/14 From kerryk5ks at hughes.net Sat Aug 16 18:57:43 2014 From: kerryk5ks at hughes.net (Kerry Sandstrom) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:57:43 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Antenna Mast In-Reply-To: <508F1ACF637642DFB52C8146CAB301D1@GaryPC> References: <110578817EC248528BAD66C4D70F5E13@GaryPC> <53EFA68F.8050907@hughes.net> <508F1ACF637642DFB52C8146CAB301D1@GaryPC> Message-ID: <53EFE1E7.2070004@hughes.net> Gary, I just looked at the article on masts in the new QST. Two issues mentioned were the bending moment and ice on the antenna. I don't think ice is much of a problem here in the central Texas Hill Country. The two factors that determine bending moment are the antenna wind loading and the distance between where the antenna is mounted and the top tower bearing. If the antenna is mounted within a foot of the top tower bearing there won't be very much bending moment. I hope some of the others on the reflector will let you know what they have done. At this point, you have several options to choose from. I certainly would mount the antenna as close to the bearing as possible and not have to worry about bending moment. If your tower is typical, you probably only need 6 foot mast. Close to a kilobuck for a mast seems outrageous to me! I'm glad you asked the question. Have fun Kerry On 8/16/2014 4:35 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote: > It's why I ask the questions - that and an article in the latest QST > about masts. Paying in excess of $500.00 for a 22 foot piece of metal > tubing just sort of struck me as down right STUPID. I guess there are > people who can afford that kind of money - I had trouble even thinking > of the $129.00 shipping to get it here from DX Engineering. The mast > would have cost me as much as the whole tower did. Didn't even think > about Texas sales tax too. > > Gary J > N5BAA > > -----Original Message----- From: Kerry Sandstrom > Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 1:44 PM > To: Gary J - N5BAA ; HCARC Reflector > Subject: Re: [HCARC] Antenna Mast > > Gary, > > I used a 10 foot section from an old 40' TV mast for several years with > no problem. It was the next to the bottom section so it was fairly > large diameter. About 6 feet was above the tower bearing. I had a 4 > element 15 m Yagi just above the bearing, a 4 element 10 m Yagi about 3 > feet above the 15 m Yagi and a 5 element 6 m Yagi at the top. I had it > up for several years in San Antonio, TX with no problems. > > Forty years ago hams seemed to be more willing to take a chance than > they are now. Also, Yagis back then were considerably smaller than the > current crop. Now everything seems to be a status symbol: You have to > have the "right" rig, "right" tower the "right" antenna, the "right" > mast, etc. I believe this is all foolishness. Things which are about > the same size will perform about the same. > > For your particular situation, The Cushcraft A4S is a small light > antenna. If you mount the antenna a foot above the bearing on the top > of the tower, almost any mast should work fine. If you want to have the > antenna 15 feet above the top of the tower, then you probably need an > exotic and expensive mast. Ask your self how much that extra 15 feet is > worth? If its worth $550 plus shipping and taxes plus the difficulty of > getting it and the tribander installed - Go for it. If it were me, I'd > mount it right above the tower bearing and save my money. > > Kerry > > > On 8/16/2014 1:05 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote: >> What do people use for antenna masts on crank up towers, etc. My >> crank up tower will only have one antenna probably a Cushcraft A4S >> beam with possibly the 40 meter modification added. It will go to a >> Yaesu 800DX rotator. Another fixed tower may have a 20-10 meter Hex >> Beam on it with a Hy-Gain Rotator with possibly a DIY 6 meter beam >> below it. >> >> All I see are Chrome-Moly masts from DX engineering in 22 foot >> lengths that are in excess of $550.00 delivered. There has got to be >> a better source than that. >> >> Gary J >> N5BAA >> ______________________________________________________________ >> HCARC mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4745 / Virus Database: 4007/8047 - Release Date: 08/16/14 > From mikerey.perez at me.com Sat Aug 16 23:03:56 2014 From: mikerey.perez at me.com (Michael R Perez) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:03:56 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Good luck---Re: HCARC Digest, Vol 40, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <35992731-CA88-4CC8-9FCE-2E642EC03BB2@me.com> Good luck, John K5XA. Glad to hear that you will be keeping yourself busy. Thanks, Michael P?rez Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 16, 2014, at 1:06 PM, hcarc-request at mailman.qth.net wrote: > > John K5XA From dale.gaudier at windstream.net Sat Aug 16 23:12:04 2014 From: dale.gaudier at windstream.net (Dale Gaudier) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:12:04 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Tech License Class in September Message-ID: <006501cfb9c9$06277d10$12767730$@gaudier@windstream.net> All: If any of you have friends or family that are interested in getting their ham license, please have them contact me ASAP. I am putting together the roster for the next Tech license class, which will run for four consecutive Saturdays at the Red Cross starting Sept. 6th and ending Sept. 27th. They can contact me directly for details. I need to know by Aug. 22nd so I can buy the study guides. 73, Dale - K4DG From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Wed Aug 20 13:44:17 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:44:17 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Top Band Yagi Message-ID: <3270589C6CE74AC7BC608FE5B9C78201@GaryPC> Wow!! Wonder what that cost?? http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~kan1/newmonsterantenna2.html gary J N5BAA From hcarc at mailman.qth.net Wed Aug 20 19:19:38 2014 From: hcarc at mailman.qth.net (Don Murray via HCARC) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:19:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [HCARC] Fwd: [cwops] W1AW/0 Operator schedule Message-ID: <5181b.3632d733.4126870a@aol.com> ____________________________________ From: cwops-noreply at yahoogroups.com Reply-to: w1rm at comcast.net To: cwops at yahoogroups.com Sent: 8/20/2014 5:34:13 P.M. 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And I was complaining about the cost of Chrome-Moly Masts!!! Gary J N5BAA From: W4wj at aol.com Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:10 PM To: qltfnish at omniglobal.net Subject: Re: [HCARC] Top Band Yagi Too Much to a$k about...!! In a message dated 8/20/2014 12:49:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, qltfnish at omniglobal.net writes: Wow!! Wonder what that cost?? http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~kan1/newmonsterantenna2.html gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4745 / Virus Database: 4007/8070 - Release Date: 08/20/14 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Fri Aug 22 13:21:24 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:21:24 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections Message-ID: Seems like a good idea: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141236873995 Gary J N5BAA From tower2 at stx.rr.com Fri Aug 22 14:05:27 2014 From: tower2 at stx.rr.com (Harvey N. Vordenbaum) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:05:27 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002401cfbe33$a7914a00$f6b3de00$@rr.com> Those are crimp type pins, so you'd need a crimping tool for them. Interesting pop-up magnifier for the picture....... Hv -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:21 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections Seems like a good idea: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141236873995 Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Fri Aug 22 14:54:02 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:54:02 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections In-Reply-To: <002401cfbe33$a7914a00$f6b3de00$@rr.com> References: <002401cfbe33$a7914a00$f6b3de00$@rr.com> Message-ID: <2F1798E5BBFD42EC8FCA16FAD2566F6F@GaryPC> I have a crimping tool so it should work. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Harvey N. Vordenbaum Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 1:05 PM To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' ; hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections Those are crimp type pins, so you'd need a crimping tool for them. Interesting pop-up magnifier for the picture....... Hv -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:21 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections Seems like a good idea: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141236873995 Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4745 / Virus Database: 4007/8079 - Release Date: 08/22/14 From k5xa at godfather-ridge.com Fri Aug 22 14:55:51 2014 From: k5xa at godfather-ridge.com (John K5XA) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:55:51 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I've always used trailer connectors. Source is any local auto parts store, Wal-Mart, Gipson's. Never had a problem. K5XA -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:21 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections Seems like a good idea: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141236873995 Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Fri Aug 22 17:10:32 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:10:32 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hadn't thought of one of those 6 or 7 pin round trailer connectors or a couple of the flat 4 pin ones - what do you do for connecting the pigtails from the flat ones though?? Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: John K5XA Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 1:55 PM To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' ; hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections I've always used trailer connectors. Source is any local auto parts store, Wal-Mart, Gipson's. Never had a problem. K5XA -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:21 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Waterproof Connector for Rotator Cable connections Seems like a good idea: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141236873995 Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4745 / Virus Database: 4007/8079 - Release Date: 08/22/14 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Fri Aug 22 22:28:10 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:28:10 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Whats Up With CQ Magazine??? Message-ID: <59FDFD03BB854985BAEDF3A56A7B077B@GaryPC> Just got the July issue on 20 August. June was similarly late. Gary J N5BAA From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sun Aug 24 22:51:55 2014 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:51:55 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] Do You Like Really Sweet Melons??? Message-ID: This is sort of off topic, but if you like really sweet cantaloupes you have got to go over to the big HEB, go into the door by the produce, hang a hard left turn and go about halfway down the outer wall. You should see a couple of kinds of cantaloupes. Look at the labels on them and find the ones that say either SUGAR KISS or SUMMER KISS. They are the best cantaloupe you have ever had, including Pecos Melons which are Texas? Best. The Sugar Kiss is just ambrosia sweet, while the Summer Kiss has more cantaloupe flavor and is almost as sweet. Don?t worry that you see some green showing through the netting on the Summer Kiss ? there is a green stripe inside the rind that is just as sweet and tasty as the light orange flesh (there might be some Crenshaw melon in it?s lineage). Lately they have been so sweet that I have had to cut them up with some sweet watermelon to cut the sweetness some. Enjoy!!! Gary J N5BAA From kerryk5ks at hughes.net Mon Aug 25 11:18:23 2014 From: kerryk5ks at hughes.net (Kerry Sandstrom) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:18:23 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] 432 MHz / 70 cm Message-ID: <53FB53BF.1020807@hughes.net> I've got two things. First, I'm getting back on 432/70 cm. I've got antenna and converter running. I'm working on a transmitter and I'm looking for 2 or 3 old 6939 tubes. These are 9-pin miniature tubes built for low power UHF push-pull circuits. If any one has some please let me know. Second, I've been trying to listen to ham satellites on UHF. I've had no problem hearing UKUBE-1 and FUNCUBE-1 on 2 meters. They are both quite strong. I've been unable to hear FO-29 on 70 cm. The frequency I have is 435.8 to 435.9 with beacons just above and below that. I'm using GPREDICT for tracking info and seems quite easy to use and gives me good data for the 2 meter satellites. The remainder of the 70 cm satellites seem to be above 437 MHz. My receiving setup only covers 431.5 - 436.5 MHz so these satellites are out of my range. Is FO-29 still active? Do I have the correct frequencies? Thanks, Kerry From hcarc at mailman.qth.net Mon Aug 25 22:38:21 2014 From: hcarc at mailman.qth.net (Don Murray via HCARC) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:38:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [HCARC] DX IS! The Best of the West Coast DX Buletin... Message-ID: <27e26.576db885.412d4d1c@aol.com> Hello All... "DX IS" was the motto of Hugh Cassidy the Editor of the West Coast DX Bulletin. All of the "old timers" will certainly remember Hugh, and now I just became aware of a collection of "The Best" from the bulletin. So, for you OTs... here is an opportunity to pick up this collection. For you newbe DXers... here is a chance to look back before computer logging, spotting nets, CW skimmers etc etc etc... and see how DX was chased!! It was a different world in more ways than one!! These are NOS, new old stock, from 1980, and when they are all gone, there are NO MORE!! They are available from Amazon, URL is shown below. Mailed from Texas, so you could have one in your hot little hands this week!! 73 Don W4WJ ____________________________________ From: ctdxcc at kkn.net Reply-to: k6rv_donaldlee at yahoo.com To: k5iid at sbcglobal.net, ctdxcc at kkn.net, DFWcontest at yahoogroups.com, lsdxa at yahoogroups.com Sent: 8/24/2014 7:09:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time Subj: Re: [CTDXCC] Fw: [tdxs-list] Fw: DX IS! The Best of the West Coast DXC Bulletin I just bought one and it will be available for loan once I have looked at it. I was Vice-President of the NCDXC at the time that Cass was President, and then took over as the next President in the early 70's. For those of you too young to have known Cass, he was a "piece of work" !! Great guy, funny, smart, loved Ham Radio and DX almost as much as his wife - who was a very integral part of the Bulletin. She typed, addressed and stamped the weekly missives. A wonderful woman, in her own right. These were exciting times in the DX World: Gus Browning, Lloyd and Iris Colvin, Danny Weil, Don Miller - all were either active or had been. If you are interested in DX History, a lot of it was made in the West Coast DX Bulletin era - this is the book to buy. Donald K6RV, W6MAV ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Allen To: webmaster at tdxs.net Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 5:18 PM Subject: DX IS! The Best of the West Coast DXC Bulletin Back in 1980 after WA6AUD shut down his highly popular West Coast DX Bulletin, my brother, W5DV, and I compiled and published a book, entitled "DX IS! The Best of the West Coast DX Bulletin". We thought that we had fulfilled all of the requests for it within just a few months, but we still get occasional inquiries about its availability, more than 30 years later. During a recent move, I found a supply of unsold copies, still in new condition. We have arranged to make these available through Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-West-Coast-Bulletin/dp/B002ODDJ0Y/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&qid=1408024919&sr=8-1&keywords=DX+IS%21+The+Best+of+the+West+Coast+D X+ While we do not expect a major demand for it after 30 years, we want interested parties to be aware of its availability. If you feel that it is appropriate to mention this in your club communications, there are probably some DXers who would like to know about it. We have a very limited supply and when these are gone, that's it. 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen