[HCARC] Field Day 2015
Gary J - N5BAA
qltfnish at omniglobal.net
Thu Apr 16 22:54:45 EDT 2015
I received a return phone call from Coach Chris Ramirez of Our Lady Of The Hills Catholic School approving our request to use their Basketball Court facilities for Field Day. Cost is the same as two years ago – $200.00 and we have access and use Friday, Sat, and Sunday, 26-28 June. $300.00 was approved for Field Day so funds wise we are good.
Please be thinking about types of antennas you would like to see us use. I will be happy to provide my new HexBeam, Tony Moore will bring his OCFD Dipole made from Dale Gaudier’s plans. There is a Butternut Butterfly beam antenna available also. If you drive by the pavilion on Hwy 27 you will notice that the pavilion is right next to their football field which has 4 light towers that are approximately 50 feet high. I need to measure, but I think it would be possible to put up a Loop Skywire ( http://n1su.com/loop.html ) that should be able to be sized to do 10-160 meters. If not a loop then maybe an inverted L or two for 40/80. Two years ago we attached masts to their goal posts and they provided a good secure mount for the weekend. We are in much better shape mast wise this year than two years ago. In addition to the club tower trailer there are at least two and maybe 3 portable 32-36 foot crank up masts, and several 28-32 foot push up masts. In addition, numerous club members have multiple sets of the Military Surplus 4 foot aluminum/fiberglass antenna mast sections. Robert Russell has an ingenious mast support system that is truly portable.
We will need to find a generator.
I just received 500 feet of LMR-240 coax that is available for use.
Gary J
N5BAA
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