[SJDXA] Update on Saturday

[Bob Schenck N2OO]

SJDXA members;

There was a crowd at the "Site Activity" Saturday. 

The W2GD crew (W2GD, W1GD, W2CG, W2NO, K2TW, K2XT, KU2C) worked all day on
re-erecting the transmit array and walking beverages.

New coax feeds were run inside the NE PVC tube since 2 of the 3 that were in
there tested bad after removing the coax connectors. 

All beverage coax from inside the shed was tested and repaired (by W2NO) as
necessary. Some had been under water, some not. 

I will defer to W2GD 's full report when he puts one together.

 

Inside the N2CW shack:

On Friday, W2OB, W2ARP, N4XAT and N2OO went to the site to test coax feed
lines (see our previous report). While there we discovered that one of the
two amplifier 208 volt AC outlets was dead. On Saturday Lance N2OZ worked on
this and repaired it. It had to do with the bus inside the panel and
probably a re-routing of one of the phases when repairs were made to the
power lines after the storm. All fixed! FB Lance!

 

On Saturday, W2ARP and N2OO completely cleaned up the N2CW station desk AND
overhead cabinets. We pulled out equipment no longer needed and set up the
radio and amp (nicely). (Still have a few things to do, but not much).

N2HM (who was there all day cleaning out his shed AND many other things)
will be taking a couple of the OLD PC monitors to the recycle center for us.
Also, the old 386 PC that we used only rarely. We found a few things that we
can try to sell at some point to add cash to our "new amp" kitty. We'll
discuss at our next meeting.

We also found 3 more plaques that were in the overhead cabinets, and hung
them on the wall. And, we hung a file/booklet holder on the wall for easy
access to any files or manuals. There is another one there if needed.

We also gave Danny W2NO our 5 spare rotor controllers for him to test and
repair. Danny has also offered to repair our T2X rotor (cost of parts).
We'll give that to him next time we see him since I had it taken it home to
send off to Norm's but never got around to doing it. TNX DaNo! We will GIVE
one of them to OBARC (after repaired) because we ALSO discovered that one
OBARC rotor controller (used on either their tower trailer rotor or their
VHF FD tower) was in a storage trash can in the shed that got salt water
into it. W2ARP cleaned it off with fresh water. I have it and will remove
the cabling. It is otherwise TRASH.

Finally, in the late afternoon, (N2HM, N2OO and W2NO) even helped a man
(happened to be N2OO's neighbor) and the man's lady friend remove her lost
jet ski ramp that had floated out in the marsh behind the station in the
hurricane. It was a BIG heavy float maybe about 12' x 8 ' (with some water
in it). It was "lifted" using "a lot of ingenuity and appropriately applied
leverage" onto a van designed for carrying plate glass. Wish I took pictures
as it was quite a thing to see.

 

N2OO will be "lending" a complete PC to the N2CW station. It is running
Vista (we might upgrade to Windows 7) and has WinEQF, N1MM, DX4WIN all
installed. We can add an Ethernet cable to the router under the desk and
have internet access as well. It has a widescreen monitor too. It has very
little loaded on it, so it should run fine. It even has a serial port! (It
has run fine here, it was my shack PC but I recently upgraded and it is no
longer being used)  I will also bring a decently operating Kodak printer for
it which might also be handy for us to have in the shack. 

 

N4XAT and N2OO will be coming to the station on Thursday to operate
W2WSC/WSC. I left my netbook there with N1MM in it. If anyone would like to
join us, feel free to stop in. Bring donuts!  J   

 

See ya' in the Pileups!

73!

Bob Schenck, N2OO

President SJDXA

GO SJDXA!!! www.sjdxa.org

 

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