[PVRCNC] Thursday meeting regrets

[Brad Hedges]

Much as I would love to be there, especially since I am on leave for a
couple of weeks and have "plenty" of time, I must send my regrets. We are
leaving Thursday for the weekend in Marietta, GA, with my in-laws. They are
celebrating their anniversary, AND I am taking down 90 ft of Rohn 25G with a
TH7-DX.

In other news: I have also "contracted" for 110 +/- ft of AB-105, and
another 80 ft of Rohn 25G. I was given a 2L 40M beam for taking it down (old
Hygain, short boom). I'm going to rebuild it into a "super XM240" (my
wording), using air-core coils and heavy-duty elements, etc. I am also in
the middle of building a pair of remote antenna switches, automatic band
decoders, stackmatches, K9AY 4-way receive antenna loops, preamps, and an
80M 4-square. Since I just can't get everything done in one short summer,
I'm (fo)cussing on the money bands - 80 (since the 4-square masts were given
to me and I'm getting the Comtek box cheap), 40 (similar reasons) and 20
(Going to get one - or *maybe* a pair - of M2 4L 20's (the M20DX, UPS'able
beam)). Or I may build a 4 or 5 element beam from the Antenna Book
dimensions.

Had a great FD with CFARS here in Fayetteville. We ended up down about 250
Q's and ~600 pts from last year, mostly due to lack of leadership on the SSB
station (2A). Gene, N4ANV, is on vacation with his family. He's an old DX'er
and sometimes Contester who gets into that. I spent my time at the CW
station and trying to motivate the SSB, VHF and GOTA stations to get with
it, as I am "in training" to be the FD coordinator next year.

Lots on my plate - hope you are all equally satisfied with your progress.

vy 73,
Brad
KØBHC

Sergeant First Class, Infantry
82d Airborne Division