That will be MSWE chairman's call on that question. I do know that Jerry in the past MSWE was VHF net control for MSWE net and he will be tied up in Houston with the Red Cross training drill that weekend thus not attend MSWE this year. To my knowledge No other Texas Navy ship has shown interest in being net control for the multi ship VHF net. Ron K5HM made mention that he would provide the Texas Navy cert if a net was created with local ships involvement. KK5W will be active on VHF for the MSWE however on a limited casual basis as Ft Travis will have VHF capabilities. As of now no net has been set with a repeater owner. No one has volleyed to organize the multi ship VHF net. Anyone interested in this position please let MSWE chairman Cookie K5EWJ know of your multi ship VHF net plan.
73 Bill WS5H ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Wrenn via BVARC To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [BVARC] (no subject) I haven't seen any word about a Texas Navy Certificate either for this year. Will that be dropped for this year? Seven Three, Michael - K5WRN http://www.qrz.com/db/K5WRN On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Howard Bingham via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: Is there any plan to do a VHF net like last couple of years for benefit of those of us who can't make it to MSW...? Howard Bingham KE5APJ -- On 5/27/2014 12:38 PM, WILLIS COOKE via BVARC wrote: This is an interim report on the MSWE antennas. I installed the TH-3 antenna contributed by Eddie of River Oaks Stereo on a 15 foot pole on my well house. The antenna went together very fast with the help of the color coding by Michael Monsour and his helpers who disassembled and picked up the antenna. The only problem that I found were that a couple of the hose clamps were on the wrong piece of aluminum and the two bolts that hold the clamp to the mast were 2" bolts that should have been 2-3/4" to allow for a mast in the clamp. I will get a couple more stainless 5/16 bolts and put the clamps on the right piece of aluminum when I disassemble the antenna. The antenna was assembled using the weather marks on the aluminum and the SWR on the assembly has good SWR on 20, 15 and 10 in the phone band. It is about 2.5 at the bottom of the CW band on 20 and 15 which is not surprising because the TH-3 is a bit narrow banded for both modes. The triplexer and band filter add very little to the SWR when installed. The 10 meter SWR drops to 1.75 at 28.000 and 1.25 at 28.4 and does not cross 2.0 until 29.200. With the triplexer and filter the SWR is 1.5 at 28.0 and drops to 1.25 at 28.150 then rises to 2.0 at 28.380 and continues to rise to a peak of 3.0 at 28.690 then drops to 2.0 at 29.000 and 1.5 at 29.3 and back up to 2.0 at 29.5. It appears that this Filter is optimized for PSK and FM. Tests were made with TS-480, AIM-4170C. Results generally confirmed by TS-480 SWR meter and Daiwa CN-101. The TS-480SAT auto tuner will resolve all high SWRS to give full output from the TS-480 and better than 80% efficiency. No attempt to resolve tuning was made as there are no external controls provided. No attempt to tell whether the triplexer of filter is causing the curve and no trials were made with the items separated. A 40 foot pole was constructed with the bottom 18 feet being a steel push pole (bottom two sections of a 44 ft pole) and 22 feet of fiberglass surplus mast. This will be available with halyards to hoist one or two wire antennas. An Alpha-Delta 80/40 meter antenna is available, but has not been installed and tested. The pole has been raised by a single person, but will be easier and quicker to raise with multiple persons. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, BVARC MSWE Chairman, TDXS DX Chairman K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart -- _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3950/7573 - Release Date: 05/27/14
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