[OFARC] JOTA 2016

[Ralph (home)]

JOTA 2016 will be Oct 14-16

I have built a short table (see below) to list a few of the issues we encountered at council headquarters last year and the solutions mentioned so far.
Add any other considerations you come up with ....
Please think about the question posed at the meeting ..... “Do we hold JOTA at council HQ and the lodge or only at the lodge?”

By my thinking the alternatives are:
  a.. set up in the same place as last year, use headphones with splitters and put a station with computer in a tent, we may be able to work at HQ again 
  b.. get a room on the N or W sides of the building and find a way to run cables through windows 
  c.. just set up at the lodge
Send me your comments and be ready to discuss at the next meeting.

73
Ralph
KE5HDF

      ISSUE AT COUNCIL HQ
     POSSIBLE SOLUTION
     CONCERNS WITH SOLUTION
     DOES THIS PROBLEM OCCUR AT THE LODGE?
     
      high levels of ambient noise from the highway
     setting up indoors
     How to Run cables from outdoor antenna to the indoor radios
     NO – radios can be indoors
     
      Set up on the patio
     If antennas are on the patio, they are shielded by the building – poor  transmit and receive
     
      use headphones
     None??
     
      Poor antenna performance with antennas on patio
     Raise antenna on weather balloon
     Need to get antenna above the building which will require about 100ft of cable.  (Not too hard to do.)
     NO
     
      Put antennas somewhere else and run LONG cables
     Long cables are high $$ and add signal loss
     
     
      high levels of radio static from an unknown source
     may be able to filter some out
     Filters attenuate desired signals
     NO
     
      Bright outside light makes reading computer screen almost impossible for digital modes
     Shield screen
     Tried several solutions, have not found one that works yet 
     NO – radios can be indoors
     
      Put computer & radio in a tent
     ???
     
     
      Put station with computer indoors
     How to Run cables from outdoor antenna to the indoor radios
     NO – radios can be indoors
     
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