Yesterday was AmTech day, a local operating event hosted by the FARS
club, on the site of Stanford's Linear Accelerator. The site provides
park-like facilities, plus meeting rooms, but the hams provide the
rest. It is a fun activity and something to cnsider for your own club,
especially if you open it to general hams as the FARS club does.
I brought my K2, KX1, and the antenna I made on FD morning with 44ft of
wire and 300 Ohm twinlead from The Wireman, supported by two fishing
poles and a tree.
There is a good mix of operating and eyeballing, and plenty of OMs and
YLs I know showed up, as well as a number of new faces. I showed my K2
to quite a few people, and a few tried it in CPO mode but nobody used it
for a QSO.
I got back to casual contesting in the Salmon Run, and answered an OM in
Colorado, who gave me a 559, but when it was my turn to give the poutput
power (part of the exchange) I noticed that somehow the knob had gotten
turned all the way down! So I sent 0R1W 1TTMW and had a good chuckle.
I don't know the exact power out in this situation, so I just gave him
the requested power reading.
The talks were promising, but I arrived too late in the afternoon to
join them, and wanted to get operating. I did get to see the K6WX
portable vertival beam in action (on a K2) and they worked the World
Bank in Washington, DC, and N6DQ reportedly showed his SDR1000 to a good
crowd as well.
73,
Leig / WA5ZNU
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