HF in the Park, April 12, 2014

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We had great attendance with around 37 Hams and guests showing up

Setup was near the parking lot

So simple a “child” could assemble it

Perhaps there were too many “supervisors”?

Tailgating - Amateur Radio style

The “business end” of a Buddipole portable antenna

An attractive addition to the park!        

But don’t forget about the antenna before driving away!

Now that’s a real portable HF antenna

Now it just needs to be connected to something - which took way longer than it should have, but the antenna did work nice once it was up (102’ flat top fed by 450 ladderline about 40’ up)

Ralph, N0AWN, to the rescue helping Chris (K9EQ) and Brian (N0KBL) get the line up into the trees.

Ready, aim………………………………………………...Fire!

What we have here is your basic monofilament line-eating tree!

Give me my line back!                                      Ralph can figure out how anything works!

Mike, AD0CZ, working the “bird” (name corrected)

Al, KD0KJI, operating the KX3 into a magnetic loop

Until next month…..

Thanks to N2PSR for the photographs and K0ORK, the main troublemaker

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