[SMCARA] [Bulk] [RE: Antenna Build Contest: Feedback Requested]

[Daniel Metcalf]

Tom,

Great suggestion. Rob and I have been trying to think of a time frame to
hold the contest and Rob suggested it might be best to analyze the
antennas outside to avoid any "interference" from the building if we did
analyzing inside. Doing it outside points to late spring, summer or
early fall time. I was considering the spring after our classes finish
up which is currently planned for March 28th (General / Extra Exam day).
We could hold the kickoff meeting to go over rules and dates either at
or after the April "Pig-out with the Hams". The question is how long is
long enough?

Dan 


On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 11:57 -0500, Tom Shelton, ND3N wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> 
> Sounds like a good project.  Perhaps you could associate it with the
> ARRL January VHF contest,  17-19 January.   Rules on the ARRL
> website.  If that's too soon, there's another one in June. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Shelton, ND3N
> 240-434-3811
> 
> 
> Sent by a really slow carrier pigeon...  Sorry about the poo...
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Daniel Metcalf <kb3uun at gmail.com> 
> Date:11/26/2014 11:18 AM (GMT-05:00) 
> To: smcara at mailman.qth.net 
> Subject: [Bulk] [SMCARA] [RE: Antenna Build Contest: Feedback
> Requested] 
> 
> A few suggestions have been made and I would like to get some feedback
> on them.
> 
> 1) Contest should have different classes ie Verticals, Cubical Quads
> and
> Yagi. 
> 
> 2) We should allow team efforts to submit one antenna per team.
> 
> 3) There has been interest in a basic antenna design and building
> seminar before starting the competition. 
> 
> 4) Considering that there is not much on 70cm at least not in this
> area
> then we might consider building 2m antennas.
> 
> We are sincerely interested in your ideas for the activity. Please let
> us know what you think.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan Metcalf -- KB3UUN
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