KE3HT/r June VHF Contest. Bummer!
A few of us had a test day on Friday before the contest. Everything
checked out except N1FGY's 2304. At my very first site I turned on the power
to the rack and turned the knob to select the first band. Ooops! no clicking!
No take over noise, no nothing! I had 9 bands (50mhz thru 5gig) and
now I only had 4 bands (50-432)! I worked on the bad power suppply for awhile
then gave up and attempted a couple of work arounds (12 volts for 24v relays...).
I did get 1.2gig and 5 gig to work but in the process I had to bend some
141 hard line and a connector came off of the 5gig. No spares! I also do
not own a sma to sma barrel! This means I now have 5 bands though. To top
things off the relay on the 222mhz transverter died. (back to 4 bands). Now
down to Later I also broke the mike to my dual band FM (146/440) radio. Now
I only had 50/144/432mhz. Not worth the drive. I gave up.
I WILL Do a 5gig contact at 289 miles or bust! Here are
some pictures of my adventure. Also some pictures of other rovers I bumped
into.
KE3HT Rover @ FN11 Carr Hill
Facing Greylock
In field service of my +24v@15A power system.
At FN11
Yep, all the fuses are ok? Power to the diodes, must be on control board
(left)
KE3HT antenna's folded down.
Test day friday before the contest.
N1FGY Rover
KE3HT/R during test friday
FN22 Sunday June 9th
FN01 facing Greylock
Note the WA2AAU landscaping!
