Hello all...are you ready?? I am almost!!! we took the ring rotor motor
apart today and found that the nylon gear was stripped...in my haste last
year to return it to service I had not cleaned the motor case properly and
there were a few shards of metal inside..they subsequently caused the motor
to bind up and strip the gears again...now the good news..I already had a
spare nylon gear so we were able to return the TIC ring to life after only
2 hours of time...its turning just fine now with 2 motors....the 20m
station is now locked down...the 1000mp has the enhanced ssb filters, Jeff
W4DD did the AGC mod to it...the stacks are up and functional...and the TIC
is doing fine...we also have a 3 element on the carribbean that is
awesome...Greg we are looking at a really big score from you and AA4LR on
20m...also got you a heil Pro headset today...so its 100%.....we also got
another 1000mp that a friend has loaned for the contest...we will be using
5 mp's this next weekend...10m-80m and a 930s on 160....heard from WB4SQand
he is bowing out for the weekend...sorry to see that you won't be here with
us Gary...we plan on having a big time and really making some noise on the
bands...N9HZQ is also coming for some operating with us...looking forward
to seeing Jeff...the bands have been awesome on 10m and 15 m ...we will be
aiming for over 2000 qso's on each of those bands...we plan this year to
knock off W4MYA(again) , K9NS, N3RS, and anybody else who gets in our
way....
AA4GA and W4WA are you guys coming down??? anybody need directions??? de
Rick nq4i
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