Great pictures. That must have been fun. I did not know you could get permission to use the lighthouse like that. How did you do that?
We have (stored at site 1) a power edger that with a carbide saw blade cuts nice shallow thin trenches for radials. We will be using it there for our coming 160/80/40 60' vertical. It is available if you would care to use it at the clubhouse. I would be willing to come up
and be there at the time. John Portune W6NBC -------------------------------------------------- From: "Niko Cimbur" <ac6dd@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:17 PM To: <sarcmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [sarcmembers] Portable contest operation
I operated the 2010 CQ 160 CW Contest from the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse. It is an extremely quiet location with fantastic views.The following are some pictures if anyone is interested: http://www.ac6dd.com/2010/2010cq160cw.htm and a short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNBYvA4hjs&feature=relatedI used a two element phased transmit array switchable to 0,90,180,270 degrees phasing and a 4 element receive array of short verticals.I will be removing the tower and pole that I left out in front yard shortly. At the time I was still undecided where to operate the contest from, so I left it in place. I am working Saturdays until April, and could not come by any meetings or otherwise, in case someone was wandering about the tower being left there.If there is any interest I can put up a smaller vertical on top of the radials field - like a Butternut HF6. I also built a prototype radial wire plough to try to make the wires dissapear.Niko - AC6DD _______________________________________________ You have received this because you are subscribed to the Satellite Amateur Radio Club Members Mailing ListTo post on the mailing list, simply send email to sarcmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx This mailing list willonly accept email from subscribed members so SPAMMERS will not get your email addressTo unsubscribe, send an email to sarcmembers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
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