[SMCARA] Museum Ships Weekend Special Event

[Jason Rearick]

Club, We are teaming with another local radio club at the Historic St Mary’s City to activate the ship “The Dove” for Museum Ships Weekend on June 3rd and 4th.
I attended the meeting at St Mary’s City the other day in Mike N3KUN’s place. I am not sure how organized the other club is on this, but we will see.  It may be them setting up one station and use setting up one station. More to follow.  

The following is a run down of the notes I took during this meeting.  Please let N3KUN know if you plan to attend or assist with this from our clubs side of things.


Sounds like a 2 station setup, with a 40M dipole, and 20M buddipole. At night it may be possible to stretch out on to 80M via dipole.

We identified a primary and secondary location on the grounds.
Bathroom access will be available.
Over night ops will be allowed.  No camping on grounds overnight.
Power is available.
Can start Friday evening at 0000Z time. There is another even on Sunday, but we should be able to operate into Sunday anyway.
If we need to stake lines into the ground 6-8 inch stakes are the max.
No vehicles on the grounds during St Mary’s City open hours of operation.
We can NOT tie anything off to structures on the grounds, but trees are fair game.
Dave is going to work with St Mary’s City group to do appropriate paperwork.


Primary Location: Pavilion Area.  It is well visible to the public, and has power available.  We can not setup in this pavilion, but can right outside of it, under an EzUp. There are trees that should not be a problem to get a 40M dipole into.  Dave has a buddipole that he plans to run.  These antennas would be close and stations will most likely interfere with each other.  If the club will let us use the IRAD filters like at field day, that would be great. I think at this location we could get an 80M dipole up at night also. Antennas won’t be high, but should work fine. No lighting in pavilion, will need to bring some. There are picnic tables close by that we could grab and use.

Secondary Location:  Gazebo Area.  This is a little more out of the public view, but has power.  Set up here will have dipoles in the trees and may be a little tangled into limbs.  There is not as much room here, so an 80M dipole is probably out of the question. Station antennas will still be close together and the filters would be a huge advantage. Antennas again will not be high, but right on the edge of the cliff. No tables near by, so would probably have to bring some. Lighting, I am not sure if the Gazebo has lights or not. This city would be best to use an EzUp also.




Jason
N3YUG