[HCARC] Field Day Antennas

[Bill Tynan]

Harvey et all:

My recolection is that RG-8X is much more lossey than RG-8. For Field 
day, you won't need the 2 meter and 70 cm antennas, so why not 
disconnect them and use the cable for something - that is if they can be 
gotten to easily.

Could you, temporarily run coaxs through the window or the back door?

Just a few thoughts.

73,

Bill, W3XO
On 6/6/2014 7:43 AM, Harvey N. Vordenbaum wrote:
> Due to the limitations of the building feed through conduit we only have a
> few coax's (RG-8's) available.
> The HF antennas are combined outside by a remote coax switch box.  There is
> one spare feed through cable however.
> There are separate coax's for the 2M and 2M/.7M antennas.
> Fred has an idea of replacing all the present RG-8's with RG-8X cable thus
> gaining a few more lines passing through. Someone could make a calculation
> about how many lines would be gained. Making this change would not be easy,
> however and time is getting short.
> For field day we may have to pass coax through the partially opened window,
> but then you wouldn't want a generator running nearby.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kerry
> Sandstrom
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 10:07 PM
> To: Gary J - N5BAA; hcarc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [HCARC] Field Day Antennas
>
> Gary,
>
> You may only need to put an antenna up for the GOTA station across the
> street.  Questions you need to answer are:
>           1.  Do the existing 40 and 80 m dipoles have separate transmission
> lines?
>           2. Can you operate one transceiver on the 20/15/10 Vertical and
> another on the dipoles simultaneously?
>           3. If the answer to 1 is yes, can you operate with one transceiver
> on 80m and another on 40 m simultaneously?
>           4. Is operation even permitted on 30/17/12 m for field day, if not
> you don't need any WARC antennas?
>
> If you can operate on 80 and/or 40 simultaneously with 20/15/10, then that
> is probably all you need.  You won't be able to operate two stations on any
> single band even with separate antennas behind the RC Building.  I suggest
> that if you really don't need to add any more antennas you shouldn't.
>
> You should check out all the antennas and transmission lines that are a
> permanent part of the station a couple weeks ahead of time in case you need
> to make any repairs.
>
> If you are operating as 2 or 3F (why not 4F!!) then I don't think setup time
> is even a factor since the station is ostensibly part of a "permanent"
> emergency fascility.
>
> Kerry
>
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