[K4RY] Progress Wednesday

[John Y. Hung]

Hi gang,

Actually, the beam antenna wrapped in plastic is not a home-brew.  It  
is a Tennadyne T-12 log-periodic antenna donated to the club by Jimmy  
Lee (AE4HF, Rogersville, AL).  Yah, it IS huge. Somewhere, I have the  
assembly instructions...

John Hung

On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:38 PM, WB4LNM at aol.com wrote:

> I did not get a reply back about a meeting late afternoon  
> Wednesday, so I went into the Club station early and spent a few  
> hours picking and cleaning up.
>
> Most of the cable is now sorted and in some form of organized  
> stacks.  The equipment is moved into reasonable locations in the room.
>
> While we will possibly get a couple of used PC's from the  
> Department, I did set up and try the existing machine for the  
> iGate.  Worked ok until it got to the keyboard test.  The keyboard  
> PS2 plug had been broken off the cord at some time and thus it hung  
> there.  I'll most likely bring in one of my old ones to continue  
> work.  The cleanup did find the power cord for the Alinco DR-110 2  
> meter transceiver for the iGate, but I'll need tools to connect it  
> to the power supply on the next trip.
>
> Byron and I powered on the Heathkit transmitter / receiver pair and  
> all tubes lit.  While they look a little rough on the outside, the  
> insides are pretty clean.  I later found a speaker that would plug  
> into the receiver and got a LOT of hum, indicating some bad power  
> supply capacitors.  Not surprising given they are 40 or more years  
> old.  I'll try to find or order some new ones.  They will also need  
> the 'widowmaker' 2 prong power cords replaced with 3 wire grounded  
> cords.  This will be a good and useable set of HF gear if we get it  
> back up and working.
>
> There is an old 440 MHz repeater in there that was most likely the  
> 'first' K4RY 440 repeater.  It's an oldie, but might be useful to  
> recrystal as a fixed frequency transceiver for communicating  
> through the 440 repeater, or as part of a cross link to tie the 440  
> and 2 meter repeaters together via Broun Hall.  Another couple of  
> old hulks are of dubious worth, and may get trashed after Club  
> review and approval.
>
> A huge, homebrew beam is sitting in one corner wrapped up in  
> plastic wrap.  I have no idea who made it or what bands it covers.   
> It is taking up a lot of room and we need to figure out what to do  
> with it to get it out of the room since we already have a very nice  
> commercial antenna.  Perhaps we should donate it to one of the  
> other local clubs that might need a beam and has the location to  
> install it.
>
> That's it for this week.  Again, if the Club would like a short  
> demo of the HRD software, I can do that, but I do need some advance  
> notice and we need a room with a projector at the Union for all to  
> see.
>
> Please also remember that there is a VE testing session upcoming  
> soon.  So if you want that first license or want to upgrade, plan  
> ahead!
>
> 73
>
> John...
> WB4LNM
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> Alumni advisor
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