[LCC] Summer is here and it's Ham Fest time....

[Marsh Stewart]

I'm thinking your first permanent antenna system at Area 57 should be a 120
foot Rohn 55 tower with 5-element 20 M monobanders at 40, 80, and 120 feet -
all individually rotatable and all selectable in any combination.

 

Then you can move on to your 210 foot tower with 40M monobanders at 105 and
210 feet - both individually rotatable and both selectable in any
combination.

 

Of course you'll also need at least one full-size 4-square on 80M. But to
really set your station apart, a 160M full-size 4-square would be "nice".
Let's see 4 (verticals) X 128 (radials per vertical) X 135 feet (length of
each radial) = 69,120 feet of #16 radial wire - hey that's only a little
over 13 miles. Might take a while to get all of those radials laid down.

 

Marsh, KA5M 

 

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From: LCC [mailto:lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Lott
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 8:40 AM
To: Contest Club Louisiana
Subject: [LCC] Summer is here and it's Ham Fest time....

 

Many of us were at Ham Com

it was an exciting week-end

we all had a great time, of course the traffic sucked 

most of us would rather deal with a QSO pile up

not a traffic pile up !

The fellow ship at the steak house was awesome !!!

The Shreveport Ham Fest this August is going to impress everyone,

plenty of FREE parking, lots of space, a separate building that is big and
spacious for the forums

Lots of quality vendors and door prizes

Large Indoor flea market space

A handie talkie every hour  !!!

Nice HF rig for top drawer prize

And some really good seminars !

 

http://k5sar.com

see the link on that page to the Hamfest flyer

The Shrveport/Bossier Hamfest also has a FB page

with routine updates
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1599061620310508/

 

Mean while I am working on the property at 
"Area 57"

and will have a presentation on what it is, where it is

as well as the goals and planning for it's use

during the LCC meeting at the Shreve Ham Fest

 

Mean while be safe in this heat

remember the 90 days of summer rules

Hydrate, take short breaks in the AC

and work lots of DX :)

cheers!

Steve

KG5VK

 

http://www.KG5VK.com
My Ham Radio Friends

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