We are planning to do FM on 2 meters and 440. I have bought a 6 meter portable
Quad so we can try 6 meters if we have operators to do so. We are still in
need of operators for Friday Night, Saturday Day, Saturday Night and Sunday.
The Ferry ride is not so time consuming, about 20 minutes. The wait time is
tolerable, usually one or two boats, but Sunday afternoon late sometimes a
couple more boat loads ahead of you, maybe an hour wait.
We plan to install the TH-3 donated with a triplexer for 20,15 and 10. Mike
has a dual bander vertical to install above the TH-3 for repeater work. I have
built a portable 40 ft mast for wire antennas. Bill will bring his famous
"worm burner" and we will see where it fits in. The "Texas Navy Certificate"
is an invention of Ron Litt and he has not released the particulars as far as I
know. We will try to have Cavalla and Stewart available, but Ron has not
shared his plan with us so far.
Ft. Travis promises to be a nice place to celebrate the ships. A better view
from Seawolf Park is not available to us this year. We asked, they said no.
Ft. Travis has over night camping, a couple of shelters, picnic tables,
showers, real bathrooms and cool sea breeze. Bill and I think you will like it
and we think we will like it. We will have food, drink, radios and antennas.
We hope you will join us. If you are going to work the Elissa you can join us
when they close for the night. We hope you will join us! If you stay home and
hope for a repeater contact, we will provide antennas and radios and operators
if we have them.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, BVARC MSWE Chairman, TDXS DX Chairman
K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 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
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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
>
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