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| My 3 inch diameter rocket on an I140 motor. There was a 2 meter fox on-board. |
The portable antenna setup this time was a tripod support made of camo poles. I put a two meter slim-jim on top allowed me to access the repeater back in Bay County Florida. The mast also held up a forty meter half wave dipole up at only 20 feet. This however this was fine to get back to Panama City Florida about 85 miles away. I worked Bob KK4DIV, Jim K4LIX and Vic K4GXV from there. I also worked Don KK4QAM in Sweetwater, Alabama. The rig was the Icom 7100.
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| N4KGL setup using camo poles to deploy a 40 meter dipole and a two meter slim jim on top. |
As mentioned Bob KK4DIV and I made contact on 40 meters. Here are some photos of his setup in his yard in Lynn Haven, Florida.
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| Bob KK4DIV in Lynn Haven |
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| Bob KK4DIV's portable setup |
Bob WB8PAF a ham buddy from Panama City attended the launch. Bob is getting into portable ops. He used a G5RV and his FT 817 from the cab of the truck. to make some contacts.
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| Bob WB8PAF's G5RV |
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| Bob WB8PAF operating the FT 817 from the cab. |
At my parent's house,Tom WD0HBR and I started working on the 1931 Philco Model 50 I inherited. We found the chassis was a mouse condo. However there was no evidence of chewing. The on off switch did not work but responded to contact cleaner. Tom checked the type 47 and 80 tubes they were very weak. We brought up some voltage with a variac and the transformer hums pretty bad at 80 volts. The filter caps don't seem to be shorted. So running out of time, we will have to continue this project in the future.
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| Philco Model 50 |