[PaQSO] What are you going to do different this year?

[Bob Crossland]

Nice post Mark.  Enjoyed reading it.  Reminded me of the year that Ed,
WA3SES, and I operated from a pop-up camper in the mountains of
Somerset/Westmoreland/Fayette.  It got really, really chilly (cold would
probably be a much better description) Saturday night, to the point that
when I lit the burner on the stove the next morning to warm things up,
condensation began building up on the PC monitors, so much that they started
crackling, quite loudly.  We thought we were blowing everything up.  

Anyway, I was actually considering cutting back on my upper band dipoles
this year, but after reading some of the posts, I've changed my mind, yet
again!!  I go through this every year.....what to do, oh what to do.  In
fact, I'll probably change it at least 2 more times before heading for the
big woods.

Regards.

Bob, N3FR  (portable in WAR)




-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kempisty [mailto:kempisty@pav.research.panasonic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:23 AM
To: PAQSO PARTY
Subject: [PaQSO] What are you going to do different this year?


All,

Last year was my first portable effort in CLI and it went well.  The 
Alpha Delta DX-CC dipole I used was perfect except for 160.  I also ran 
a coax to the 2/220/440 antenna on the van for those just in case 
contacts but other than terminating the V/UHF output on the 706 it 
didn't do much for me.

This year I'm staying closer to home and going to CAR.  I am going to 
duplicate what worked and try a few new wrinkles:
o Pop-up camper instead of cabin.  May be a little chilly since it 
doesn't have a built in furnace.  I'll have to use an electric heater.
o Since the campground is quite high I'm going to borrow a dual band 
Cushcraft Ringo and strap it to the side of the pop-up camper.  
Hopefully I can work into Scranton, Allentown, BUX and MGY.
o Again since I've got some height, I'm going to put something up for 
6m, maybe my B&W apartment antenna.  A dozen Q's for a couple of minutes 
installation effort will be worth it.
o Shorting plug to get the DX-CC to load on 160m.
o Narrow SSB and CW filters for the 706 so I can keep a bit of sanity.

Anybody else planing changes?

73,
Mark N3GNW




_______________________________________________
PaQSO mailing list
PaQSO@mailman.qth.net
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso


--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
or had an attachment.  Attachments are not allowed.  To learn how
to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html  ---