[K3VOA] Fwd: VOA 80th SES - Update

[marc poe]

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From: marc poe <mtnik00 at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: VOA 80th SES - Update
To: Peter Van Houten <peter.vanhouten at me.com>


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On Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:37 PM Peter Van Houten <peter.vanhouten at me.com> wrote:
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> Dear Macon et al:
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> I was just playing with Google Earth and measuring feed lines and how to route them.
> Then how much line do we need and how many poles are there out there?
> Only 5-10% of the poles need replacing or for a new route to the feed point .
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> Hope it helps. i can send the excel file if you need it.
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> 73 Peter
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> On Nov 17, 2021, at 8:40 PM, Macon Dail <dconsultinc at suddenlink.net> wrote:
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> Hi Marc,
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> Unfortunately, the receiver rhombics were designed to source an impedance of 516 ohms using a balanced transmission line made of #6 wire.  All we have at B site would be for 500 kw lines made of 4, 5/8" od elements or possibly 50 kw lines made of 4, #4 conductors.
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> Since we would be running QRP (compared to 50 kw and 500 kw) power, we might be able to develop an exponential balun to transform the 516 ohms down to 400 ohms which is typical of good quality window line.  Short T bar insulators could be made with PVC and attached to the support poles.  It will take some planning but should be possible.
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> Regards,
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> -----Original Message----- From: marc poe
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 4:34 PM
> To: Peter Van Houten
> Cc: Brault Jocelyn ; Dail Macon E ; Wood Dave
> Subject: Re: VOA 80th SES - Update
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> Macon,
> When Greenville Site A was still a thing, I remember seeing hundreds
> of insulators and coiled up copper-clad wire  (perhaps transmission
> line grade) in the switch matrix 'barn'.
> Do you have a similar cache of at Site B that could be used to build
> these feed lines ? and if so, would it even be available for this
> project, given the rules around disposing of government property...
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> -marc K3POE
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> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:29 AM Peter Van Houten <peter.vanhouten at me.com> wrote:
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> Hello Everyone:
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> Here at site C, Macon and three ECU representatives got together and surveyed the VOA site C. All the antennas are up but disconnected from the building. We were looking at what it would take to re-connect the feed lines to the antennas. It will take some time as I am applying for a grant and seeing how much cost is involved with repairing all of this.
> So for the special event, we will be down the road  at a friend’s house that has decent antennas on 90’ towers x2. If we get the VOA antennas up then we can go back but we will be on the air. In the meantime, we are pushing ahead to repair the antennas and re-establish our MOU with the university to get access to the site. I put up a blog right after the visit at:
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> https://w4amc.com/2021/11/13/voa-site-c-project/
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> I can get support from our club for $100 for QSL cards. I like the idea of off loading the task to a QSL manager as it may be run in a more coordinated fashion and as the requests can trail off for a long time, the manager can handle it.
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> I am flexible but having all the call areas represented sounds like a difficult organizational task? I am more in favor of having the three stations but can get talked into other arrangements…..
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> If you have someone that is artistically gifted to make the graphics on the cards, I can send images for our site to you. Having the same graphic artist do all the cards would give a uniformity of design to the cards and look more professional. How are we doing with the permission to use the older VOA logos? Are there several styles that have been used over the years? If so we should use them in the graphics if we are going to use the old historic photos as well.
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> This Sunday at 9am I will be at the Benson Hamfest. Could we meet in the afternoon, lets say at 5 or 6? I can do it from my phone at the hamfest at 9 if we cannot change it. Let me know what is possible. Please send a link to the meeting again.
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> Thank you all and see you on Sunday, 73 Peter
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> On Nov 15, 2021, at 4:27 PM, WCARA QST <qst at wc8voa.org> wrote:
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> Hello Everyone,
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> Our club voted on approving $100 for the QSL cards.  That should get us 500 cards, the easiest thing to do would be to get a QSL manager for all these cards.  Basically the QSL manager handles all the QSL cards for all three callsigns.
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> I also spoke with the certificate software guy, they are happy to help. He wondered why we don't make the event a week long instead of a weekend. He also mentioned we could do all different call areas.  .i.e /1 /2 /3...
> I'm not sure how I feel about it, on one hand we will get more "coverage" of all the callsigns and making it easier to get a clean sweep.  On the other hand, I feel the contacts should be made with a VOA site.
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> He also mentioned the Certificate can be several pages long.  For example, the 1st page would be the actual certificate, we could also insert a page for each club.  This would be a great occasion to add more details about each station/location.  The recipient of the certificate can just print the first page but at least it gives us a chance to promote VOA and our clubs.  Since the certificate is in .PDF format, you can also add "links" from the certificate to our websites or other online resource.
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> I'm working with one of our club members to come up with the certificate. We have a few ideas but feel free to pass ideas and pictures we could use to promote the 80th of VOA.  We also have the WLW-O transmitter restored thanks to another member (Lee Hite), the first broadcast was done from it, I would like to add it to the "collage" for the 80th.
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> We can discuss everyone thoughts on Sunday morning during our Zoom call.
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> 73,
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> KD8VRX/VA2VRX
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