[KCDXC] Fwd: Our Antenna!

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:05:27 -0500

Ah, yes.....old memories of past Field Days.

The vision of a truck with a monster beam duct taped to its top, engine
running, windows down, 807 equipped driver awaiting the "rotate" command....

I remember the year we had the trained chicken......oops, guess I can't
really go into that here...but suspenders were involved.

Or the year we borrowed a ham's two element quad.  Funny lookin' thing when
we got it up in the air.  Come to find out, we had put the 10 meter wires
out on the very end of spreaders.  Funny what several 807s will do to a
person out in the heat.

Or the year we were donated the use of a utility bucket boom truck.  Problem
was getting the antenna to rotate.  So a fellow ham volunteered to actually
go up with the antenna, sit in the bucket and await commands to rotate.
Problem was, once the boom truck was delivered and raised, along with the
human rotator,  the owner/operator went home.  Things were in such turmoil
while getting setup, no one noticed he was gone....and he took the keys with
him.  Noon the next day, we were finally able to get in contact with the
owner who returned to lower the human rotator back down.

Or the year K0RWL and I went out to the field day site to operate some.
Never saw a person who could operate a radio, an iambic key, a memory-keyer
(one of K0CS's specials), hold and smoke a pipe, while holding a steady rate
of 100 per hour.  And this was all with one hand...as we all know he was
holding a beer with the other.  As logger, I was responsible not only for
logging contacts but keeping the beer hand occupied with 807s.

I could go on.  But I won't

KB0X

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Alex Tkatch
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:02 AM
To: kcdxc
Subject: [KCDXC] Fwd: Our Antenna!

Here's one from Elmer and Skeeter...

--- Elmer Hinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 04:30:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Elmer Hinkle <[email protected]>
> Subject: Our Antenna!
> To: [email protected]
>
> KU1CW
>
> Hey,Rooskie Boy,
>
> My cousin, Skeeter, and I had plans to put up that
> big 20 meter beam.
> We wanted to use it  for Field Day this year. We
> planned to assembly it
> and just lay it on top of my pick up. We would just
> duck tape it to the
> top of the Ford pick up.It might take a couple of
> rolls of that duck
> tape, tho. If we needed to rotate it I would turn
> the truck around and
> park facing the direction needed.
>
> Could you wait till Field day is over to put it
> up???
>
> If you don't want to wait till Filed Day is over,
> Skeeter said to tell
> you "Well, Awlright then!"
>
> Roy D. Mercer may come to visit you if you don't
> wait.
>
> Wd0SRI
> Resident Redneck of Wamego, Kansas, and KCDXC Member
> for 13 years!
>
>
>
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