[NJARC] This just in from NE Wireless & Steam Museum

[Pete]

It’s a great place. How old is Bob Merriam now tho - ?  The King of Old Buzzards. 

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> On Aug 24, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Raymond F Chase <raydio862 at verizon.net> wrote:
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> A trip to the New England Wireless and Steam Museum is always worth the
> effort, should be on every collectors bucket list.  The Fall Steam-Up is an
> exiting special attraction.  The "steam" means real live old fashioned hot
> steam running engines not the current acronym STEAM.
> Ray
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> "Massie Station [PJ, http://newsm.org/buildings/massie/] antenna. A winter
> storm blew down the mast on Massie Station. Volunteers replaced the mast,
> then, led by Colin and Craig, added a new antenna. The new antenna is an
> off-center fed dipole, 134 feet long, that will tune 6, 10, 12, 17, 20, 40
> and 80 meter bands with a reasonable standing wave ratio. It is fed with a
> 4:1 Guanella Current balun which gives us a feed point of approximately 125
> ohms. We have checked  it on 80, 40 &
> 20 meters and worked several stations with good reports."
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> Has anyone in the club worked it? If not, change gears for a road trip to
> East Greenwich, RI, for the awesome annual Yankee Steam-up Saturday, 29
> September: https://newsm.org/steam-up/.
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> Alex
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