That trailer sounds like what a lot of the EMA's around here have but they 
generally only get used for field day and stuff. My club has a station but 
not like that, it's in a former dorm room in what used to be a nursing 
school attached to the local hospital. We meet at the hospital too, there is 
nice HF equipment and I think they cover every band but 900 MHz, have to fix 
that, the 2 meter repeater is there but needs an antenna which will be 
worked on soon, and thank god no lowlifelink. I just left another club for 
sinking to that level of putting it on one of their repeaters, and I was an 
officer too. Oh well, no wonder I'm getting 90% of my vhf equipment new 
homes.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 3:20 AM
Subject: Re: Ht burning out?


>> yes, sounds like you worked the same two stations...UA0SE in senegal, and
>> D44AC in kape verde.  I got them both on 20M.
>> our club station is quite well stocked with large antennas, towers and
>> radios...there are at least 4 fully operational HF stations in the main
>> building...only one is hooked up to the big beam, but the others have 
>> some
>> good high dipoles and such on them.
>> 3 756 pro 3's and a TS2000X with the 1.2GHZ module, but no vs3 yet.
>> we're supposed to be getting 3 full sized HF verticals this summer to
>> compliment the stations not using the big beam.
>> Each position also has a computer and dual band icom 2720, along with
>> various other mono-band VHF/UHF radios.  the club also has a few wide 
>> band
>> PC bassed receivers, scanners and various other receivers and 
>> transceivers
>> for general use.  All that, and I'm not including the 6 or so repeaters
>> they have in the building as well...off the top of my head, there is a 6M
>> repeater, 1 2M repeater, a 220 repeater, a UHF repeater, a DStar repeater
>> on VHF, a 1.2GHZ repeater, as well as 3 or 4 linking repeaters for the
>> wide area system that links in about 5 different repeaters.
>> We've got IRLP and echolink set up on the main repeater system as well.
>> There is a secondary building for ARES training as well as new ham class
>> training and various other club events like breakfasts/coffee meets.
>> As far as I know, there are four towers, ranging from the main tower 
>> which
>> is 250FT that has the majority of the repeater antennas on it along with
>> some other commercial and cellular gear up on it, down to a 30FT tower
>> which has some random VHF/UHF verticals and is used for support for a
>> couple of the dipoles.
>> There is a 3 element stepIR up on a 30FT tower as well, but the rotator
>> brake is broken and no one has run a roter cable or coax up to the beam
>> yet...kind of a major waste in my opinion.
>> We've also got a fully functional and stocked portible trailer called the
>> NARC pack Two which has a VHF repeater inside, along with a 30FT 
>> hydrollic
>> telescoping tower and a 3 element multi-band beam that can be assembled
>> and put up for events or emergencies.
>> Radios in there include, the last time I was in it, a TS570DG, ts2000, 3
>> dual band icoms, CB, bc780 scanner, about 6 dual band HT's in permanently
>> mounted chargers and strapped down, along with various FRS/GMRS and
>> programmable commercial type HT's for whatever might happen.
>> The trailer has a 5KW generator along with a compliment of batteries to
>> run everything free of the generator...they've got a 200 gallon fuel tank
>> for the generator as well.
>>
>> And the best part about all of this stuff, the club building and club
>> trailer, is that hardly any of it is used on a regular basses.  the HF
>> stations are very rarely actually used, and they don't even allow anyone
>> to run contests in there other than field day sometimes or canada day or
>> the rac winter contest.
>> the trailer gets moved about twice a year to set up at a marathon or a
>> public event in a park or something...but sits doing nothing the rest of
>> the year.
>> oh well, at least it's all there if we needed it or if we eventually get 
>> a
>> club executive who actually lets the members use the equipment more than
>> half an hour a week.
>>
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX