[MAMS] How I spent this contest weekend

[Dave Sublette]

Good work!

Dave, K4TO

On 6/14/2011 1:34 PM, Dave Calvert wrote:
> Hello to the group,
> I took off work to drive out to Garth's - W0GR qth on Friday 10th of June
> and arrived there
> at Odessa, MO. (EM38ax) at 12:00 noon.  The reason to visit Garth was to help
> fix his 5.7G
> tower problem (high return loss).  After lunch I climbed the 4 legged 60 ft.
> windmill tower and
> took off the waveguide transition and replace it with a waveguide termination. 
> Found about
> 3 or 4 oz.'s of water trapped in the waveguide to "N" connector because of the
> gasket used.
> The return loss reading was still not good but it was better.
>
> These pictures are taken by Randy - WB0JQQ and I hope they are attached to this
> e-mail.
> Also found water in the 0.375" super-flex rotor piece that went to the Dish and
> uW transition. 
> This was on Friday and the rest of the help party would be coming on Saturday
> morning by
>
> Randy - WB0JQQ, Phil - N0PB and Ed - N0DAG.  Randy had parts to fix or replace
> the
> 0.375 super-flex with 0.5 super-flex so we had to wait for Saturday to come.
>
> After about 10 climbs to the top of this tower and the help of everyone, we
> replaced two
> flexible waveguide sections to make it work again.  If Randy had not the right
> parts or Garth
> having the two correct lenghts of flexible WG, he would still be off the
> air.....
>
> It was a great time to visit with everyone and to leave with a good feeling that
> it worked again!
> I left Garth's place at 10:20 pm and drove as far as I could and stopped at a
> rest area and fell
> asleep for three hours and continued to drive straight to the Egytion Hamfest. 
> What a weekend!
> 73,
> Dave - KB0PE
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