[nrv-hams] Fwd: Saturday Morning Breakfast and Toroid-Winding Party

Thu Jan 12 09:54:28 EST 2012

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From: Carter Craigie <carter128 at verizon.net>
Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: [nrv-hams] Saturday Morning Breakfast and Toroid-Winding Party
To: Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com>

And we are all now looking forward to this year's Field Day, too, Bob. Mark
your calendars NOW everybody!!!****

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Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24, 2012. The 24-hour FD period for making
contacts is officially (1800 UTC) 2:00 PM Saturday until (1800 UTC) 2:00 PM
on Sunday.****

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Set-up Day will start the day before at 12:00 noon on Friday, June 22, at
Randolph Park, in Dublin, at the smaller of the two pavilions.****

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73,****

Carter N3AO****

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*From:* Robert McGwier [mailto:rwmcgwier at gmail.com]
*Sent:* Sunday, January 08, 2012 11:14 PM
*To:* carter128 at verizon.net

*Subject:* Re: [nrv-hams] Saturday Morning Breakfast and Toroid-Winding
Party****

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Great! Looking forward to operating Field Day here.

Bob

On Sunday, January 8, 2012, Carter Craigie <carter128 at verizon.net> wrote:
> We missed you and Sharon, Bob, but we knew you were doing the "right
thing" to be visiting your elderly and sick Elmer in Maryland. We hope your
get-together will prove to help Tom in this difficult time in his life.
>
> We had a great turnout on Saturday morning, with 18 (!) members and
friends of the club showing up. We worked long and hard winding nearly 40
toroids, some mono-filar, some bi-filar, and the largest group tri-filar.
[Boy, are my thumbs and index fingers sore!!!] Two club members volunteered
to make up the final 6 toroids at their homes. Thus we will have made 40
(!) inductors for four different 5-band pass-band filters.
>
> That was stage 1, and we will be having at least one (and possibly) 2
more sessions to complete the four boxes.
>
> The date (s) for the next session(s) will be announced as soon as we can
get the boards finished. We will then solder in the toroids, and will add
on the capacitors, and then there will be the final wiring to the switch on
the top of each box. Things like labels for the boxes can be done later.
We think we are off to a great start, and hope will have the project
completed by Field Day!
>
>
>
> 73,
>
>
>
> Carter
>
>
>
> From: Robert McGwier [mailto:rwmcgwier at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 3:15 PM
> To: NRV-Hams: A mailing list for members of the New River Valley (VA)
Amateur Radio Club.
> Cc: carter128 at verizon.net
> Subject: Re: [nrv-hams] Saturday Morning Breakfast and Toroid-Winding
Party
>
>
>
> Congratulations to all.
>
> Sharon and I hate we missed it but we needed to aid a fellow ham who has
been ill.  We were as successful as you folks were I think.  Lots of good
friends came and helped us help our friend.  I love ham radio!
>
> Bob
> n4hy
>
> On Saturday, January 7, 2012, Kenneth Walker <kjwalk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Carter,
>>
>> The "Party" was a real success. Hands on beats talking about things when
it
>> comes to skills. I learned a lot. You showed real leadership in putting
>> this project together. Please let me know about future meetings and I'll
do
>> my best to get there.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Carter Craigie <carter128 at verizon.net
>wrote:
>>
>>> Good Morning NRV Club Members,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> TODAY (Saturday, Jan. 7th) the New River Valley Amateur Radio Club will
>>> meet
>>> for BREAKFAST at the Shoney's Restaurant on Rte. 100 in Dublin for
>>> breakfast. [Usually the club meets at that restaurant the first
Saturday in
>>> the month, so THIS month we will meet there TODAY!]
>>>
>>> Folks will be arriving at about 8:00 AM.
>>>
>>> Afterward, at about 9:30, we will meet in the Dublin Fire Station to
start
>>> making 4 Pass-Band Filters which we will use at Field Day. These filters
>>> will stop the SSB stations from hearing the CW stations in their
>>> headphones,
>>> and vise-versa--the CW stations won't hear the SSB stations. Since all
the
>>> stations and antennas are so close together, there has been a lot of
>>> interference in past years. These filters will stop the interference.
>>>
>>> So the first step will be to wind toroids with wire. The toroids look
like
>>> little donuts, except they are made of tiny iron filings encased in a
body
>>> of ceramic-like stuff. We will use #16 wire and will pull the wire the
>>> exact
>>> number of turns needed for the filters. There are 10 filters to go into
>>> each
>>> of the 4 boxes, so this will be an all-club project today. You need to
>>> bring
>>> no tools, just yourself. This will be a super learning experience!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope you will be able to come to either or both events. I will have my
>>> cell phone with me today if you have any questions. Coming late to the
>>> toroid-winding party will be OK.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Carter
>>>
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