Jim-
You guys did it up right- no wonder we hear you all over the bands
in 7QP!
Great presentation, thanks for posting it.
Tom
K0SN
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> On Sun,1/1/2017 7:59 AM, Tom Hellem wrote:
>
>> Do any of you have some that you would be willing to share with us and the
>> group?
>>
>
> Here's a link to a talk that W6GJB gave at Pacificon this year about
> building a contesting trailer for Field Day and county expeditions for
> state QSO pqrties. Glen has come up with a lot of really good ideas and
> brought them together to form a portable station that goes together quickly
> and works really well.
>
> http://k9yc.com/trailer.pdf
>
> Glen is being generous in crediting me as strategist. This project is all
> his.
>
> I'm posting this link because it shows how Glen rebuilt and rigged a C3SS
> for quick assembly. Slide #29 shows all the key elements of the rebuild.
> All the elements travel fully assembled on the roof of the trailer. The
> driven elements are secured to the boom with bolts and nuts, the parasitic
> elements are clamped. Two people can get this antenna up on the army mast
> in a half hour while a third operator is working 20M on the vertical
> attached to the rack on top of the trailer.
>
> Our team loves the C3SS as a portable contesting antenna -- between us, we
> own three of them, all bought used. Glen did all the rebuilding. The mast
> jack is also his design. Glen, Frank, W6JTI, and I did five setups to
> activate 7 NV counties in 17 hours during 7QP, and we activated three
> counties in the CA QSO party. Butte and Glenn were from this trailer,
> Tehama by three other team members.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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