Field Day 2009 Final Planning Meeting and Elecraft K3 Demo
Our June monthly meeting topic will be focused on final planning and fine tuning for Field Day 2009. Among the Field Day topics, we will have a hands-on demonstration and tutorial of WriteLog, the rig control and logging program we will be using this year, integrated with an Elecraft K-3 transceiver which we will be using at the CW operating position.
We had a turnout of five hearty Radio Central members for an enjoyable club outing touring the old RCA property in Rocky Point. Dick, K2RFP, was our tour guide. Weather was ideal and everyone survived the six mile hike nicely. We took a bunch of photos and plan to create a presentation for a future club meeting. Here are a couple of photos we took Saturday.
Remnants of an old boiler room. Photo by KA2JAK.
One of the original wooden towers. Photo by AB2UW.
Farm of old porcelain insulators. Photo by K2RFP.
Left to right: Neil, KC2KY, Richie, KB2ZPB, Dick, K2RFP, Bill, AB2UW, and Rocky, KA2JAK. Photo by KC2KY.
If you weren't at the February meeting, we held our first Club Build-It night, transforming the New Village Recreation Center into a first-class engineering laboratory. Here's what you missed!
Bill, AB2UW, brought in a transceiver for use as a piece of test equipment from 160 meters through 440 MHz
Ritchie, KB2ZPB, making progress on his DC-40A QRP rig as Joe, KJ4ZW, looks on
Bill, AB2UW, Charlie, K2CQK, Dick, K2RFP, and Rocky, KA2JAK, checking out Bill's HP 8640B signal generator and frequency counter and getting ready to align Rocky's frequency counter
Bob, W2II, and Frank, K2PWG, trading war stories and kibbitzing with the gang
Jerry, K2PAY, catching up on a technical article in QST
Lou, KD2MU, looks on as Ritchie, KB2ZPB, gets some more assembly work accomplished on his DC-40A kit
Bill, AB2UW, built a cool oscilloscope-to-clock contraption
Fred, K2LDC, and Neil, KC2KY, debugging Fred's DC-40A with a Tektronix oscilloscope that Frank, K2PWG, provided
Fred, K2LDC, making the final repairs on his DC-40A
Spectrum of Fred's DC40A. Second and third harmonics are about -48 dBc - clean enough for a 1 watt rig.
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