[K3PZN-List] Club Station

[Curt Milton]

Andy

fantastic work - much appreciated!  sounds like we have 3 nice rigs available - i can't remember which one has the CW filter installed ?  

i did one small thing - put us on the ARRL map.  (and properly this year as my home pc let me move the symbol to our qth).  it is fun to scroll the map to see who else is posting their operation!  

with John likely bringing a full station, we are thus prepared to be a 3F (with an extra in reserve if we have a larger crew than last year).  

most of us are still knob tuners, so auto band changes in the log is luxury enough.  

if we did go 4F, it would be nice if the 4th xmtr could do either ssb or cw - even if it is not world class in either mode.  but 3 rigs may be enough.  

73 curt

--- On Sun, 6/14/09, Andy Leeds <wo3l at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Andy Leeds <wo3l at comcast.net>
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] Club Station
> To: "Carroll County Amateur Radio Club" <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009, 7:30 PM
> 
> I had a little time today and did some prep for field day
> at the club 
> station.
> 
> The IC-756 has headsets and foot switch hooked up. I'm
> proposing we use 
> that rig for the SSB station since I've got that part done.
> As a side 
> note I worked Scotland on 20M PSK31 while I was checking
> all the audio 
> levels and connections (so in 8 years when we get the QSL
> card....).
> 
> The vhf/uhf ICOM twins are now connected to PC6. I used
> multi-psk to 
> connect to the BBS so I'm pretty confident that if I got
> packet to work 
> the other digital modes will work. I hooked the diplexer
> into the 
> antenna and found the mystery vertical on the tower loads
> about 1.2:1 on 
> 445.875, up to about 1.8:1 by 446.000, so its at least
> usable on UHF. A 
> copy of the rig manual is on the desktop of PC6. To set
> CTSS (PL) tone 
> on these rigs, press and hold the "Sel" button (next to
> "Tone") and 
> rotate the tuning dial to select the tone. A chart is on
> the wall that 
> maps the tone number to frequency. Let go of Sel when
> you've got the 
> desired tone set, then press the Tone button an the amber
> tone light on 
> the display will come on.
> 
> TS-850 now has a rig control cable connected, this provides
> only limited 
> control - band and mode only but that's enough to drive the
> logging 
> software so that the software always matches the rig.
> 
> TS-870 - replaced the dead batteries in the desk mic.
> Otherwise nothing 
> changed here.
> 
> I'll send another email to start a Field Day planning
> thread....
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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