That sounds like a station and a half. Too bad the RF isn't flying out
of that place. Kind of like the "good China" that is kept in the
cabinet for that special occasion that never arrives.
You did well with the limited setup. Being in the right place at the
right time, along with a little skill and patience can put some nice
ones in the log.
73, Steve KW3A
On 3/26/2011 3:20 AM, colin McDonald wrote:
>> 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
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