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ARISS Station – Antenna Setup

After yesterday’s very soggy delivery of all the gear to the school, today began setup. The Ashburn Fire Station had to respond to a call, so their tower truck was delayed. To make progress, a bunch of us relayed all the items that would fit through the hatch and carried them to the antenna site above the auditorium. We pulled the antenna base (oof!) and 2M antenna with rope. The the tower truck arrived and made quick work of getting the ballast for the antenna base (several hundred pounds of concrete blocks) onto the roof. THANK YOU ASHBURN STATION FD.

Ashburn Fire Station Engine “Tower 6” made short work of getting the heavy items to the roof!

We quickly assembled the antenna, mast, base, and supporting electronics and cables and just managed to get everything together before sundown. The results are very satisfying:

L-R: KN4QPI, KS1G, and KF4TJI. Photo by Nancy H.

Thursday, we complete set-up and be ready for rehearsal with the faculty and students that afternoon after school.

THANK YOU to everyone who helped with set-up today!

73 de KS1G

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Thursday SSB Net Report Oct 17 2019

80m – 3675 KHz on 18 OCT 2019 Open 0000Z
Listening 3813 KHz for General class ops to check-in
QNI:
W0MPM John
W5ODJ John
KE4S Dave, net control
We discussed our current progress on antenna projects, software upgrades, and vagaries of telecom company provisioning and billing. We closed at 0032Z.

Please join us next week or any Thursday at 8:00PM.
73 de Dave KE4S

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2m Net Report for October 13, 2019

This is the post-net report for the most famous Sunday Night Net held by the Loudoun Amateur Radio Group on 2-Meters FM. Tonight the net was held on the 146.700 MHz (-) (No tone ) at 8:30 PM sharp. KN4AWT (Jim) was NCS for the evening.

Those who checked in were:

  • KN4AWT – Jim (NCS)
  • KC5CG – Gump
  • N2CV – Al*
  • KN4YOV – John*
  • N4PD – Paul
  • WA4TXE – Dave

* Signifies that the station was unintelligible or couldn’t be heard after checkin.

Conditions on the WA4TXE repeater were challenging. Only those within the Leesburg, VA area where able to be heard reliably by NCS. Dave, the owner of the repeater, was monitoring on the control line and explained that he is aware of the issues and needs to go onsite to make adjustments to the antenna connection. The net was closed at 8:49 PM.

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LARG 40M Digital Watering Hole

There was a very informal digital net tonight on 40 meters at 7.07325 Mhz. Myself, W5ODJ, and John, W0MPM, had a nice chat on a very quiet band tonight. We started a little late at 19:33 local time and ended about 20:05.

John was loud and clear at my QTH with a SNR at or above 25dB the entire conversation with 100% copy.

Hope to see you on a digital net soon.

73,

John
W5ODJ

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Thursday SSB Net Report 10 OCT 2019

80m – 3670 KHz on 11 OCT 2019 Open 0000Z
Listening 3815 KHz for General class ops to check-in
QNI:
K3WD Bill
KE4S Dave, net control

Called the net on 3670 to be clear of traffic just above our normal frequency. Signals good, but some QRN as background at S7. We talked a bit about the weather in the west, and about our antenna work. My tower is likely to be back in service in the next couple of days, so I should have it ready before winter storms arrive. This net is open for anyone to check in – please join us every Thursday at 8:00PM.
Closed 0015Z

10m – on 28.405 MHz
No net tonight. My wire antennas do not tune 10 meters, and nobody picked it up.
73 de Dave KE4S

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Thursday HF SSB Net Report 3Oct2019

80m – 3675 KHz on 4 OCT 2019 Open 0000Z
Listening 3816 KHz for General class ops to check-in
QNI:
K3WD Bill
W0MPM John
KE4S Dave, net control

Closed 0017Z

10m – on 28.405 MHz
No net tonight. My antenna does not tune 10 meters, and nobody picked it up.

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Thursday HF SSB Net Report 26SEP2019

80m – 3675 KHz on 27 SEP 2019 Open 0000Z
Listening 3831 KHz for General class ops to check-in
QNI:
K8SYH Bill
W5ODJ John
KE4S Dave, net control

Since this is the prime season for antenna work, we took a couple rounds to discuss the progress on our individual projects. We are all hoping to finish the projects soon to be ready for the Fall and Winter seasons.
Closed 0017Z

10m – on 28.405 MHz
No net tonight. My antenna does not tune 10 meters, and nobody picked it up.

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2 Meter Net 9/22/2019

Net started at regular time and ended at 20:54. We had 9 check-ins and are followed.

AK2M Kevin

KM4BBC Chuck

N4PDY Mike

N4FAF Jim

W0MPM John

W0DZL Kevin

KQ4CI Evan

KK4TNO Chaz

N0JSD John (NCS and NM)

Have a great night everybody.

73 de N0JSD

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September Newsletter

The LARG September Newsletter has been posted to the K4LRG web site. There are quite a number of items discussed, most of which will be further reviewed at the September meeting on Saturday the 21st.

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