[LeArc] North American QSO Party

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:39:22 -0500

Frank..

Sounds like you are having fun on HF... Great!!!  If you would go to the
newsgroup rec.radio.amateur.antenna, apartment antennas are a very popular
item for discussion. Also, a search of the archives at www.towertalk.com
will also give you a ton of ideas. From what they say there and what I know
about household wiring, grounding your antenna to a house ground system is
not a good idea. Sucks, living on the sixth floor would allow a long wire to
be thrown out the window and then use your tuner..

Best of luck

73
Dave de W9COP

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend,
Inside a dog it is too dark to read.

Groucho Marx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Franklin D Wolverton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: [LeArc] North American QSO Party

> See http://www.qsl.net/learc/ for club information.
>
> Please join us on Sunday Evenings for the
> Lamoine Emergency ARC Sunday Evening Net.
> Net time is 8:00 PM local time.
>
>
> Hey guys... just wanted everyone to know about my next adventure in radio.
>
> Ac oupe of weeks ago, i purchased a Cushcraft R7000 antenna.  This thing
gets out GREAT (especially when you figure I can set the thing up in like an
hour).
>
> August 17th (?), I am going to set up on base, and do my first solo
contest, the North American QSO Party.  I will be using the R7000, with my
FT-100D radio.  I will also have a tuner there, but hopefully I won't need
it.  I plan on doing this all off battery power.  Unfortunately, I don't
have a laptop or anything to run for a logger, so I will do it by hand, and
then log it when I get home.
>
> My next big idea is going to find a way to operate from my apartment.  I
think I am going to get a ATBK-100 mount, and use the screwdriver off of the
balcony.  Either that, or I will get an MFJ bugcatcher.  Living on the 6th
floor, grounding may be a problem, but I think I will electrical ground thru
a center screw somewhere, and RF ground with a counterpoise wire.  If ANYONE
has any ideas... please let me know.  I am sure I am not the first person to
set up in an apartment.
>
> I was wondering if the club has got anywhere on the I LINK project.  Would
be neat to check into the net on Sunday.  I know someone said that they
would patch me through into it, but I don't remember who.  I will be on
tonight if someone has that capability.  I can be contacted on:
>
> ICQ-- #38373256
> MSN--Band85th, or
> AOL IM--TubaGoodingJr
>
> As a final note... I finally got my FIRST QSL card a couple of days ago.
It is from NY.  Now that I got it,  I have got it in my head to work for
WAS.  Lets see how it goes.  Last weekend, I contacted 8 states (10
stations), and already have the one card :)
>
> Good luck to you guys on the special event station.  I'll try to contact
you, but who knows what will happen with me being a weird distance away.  I
think it's about 210 miles away straight line.
>
> Well... 73's, and hope to talk to you soon.
> Frank--KB9VRN
>
> If God had meant for us to use the metric system, there would have only
been 10 disciples
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