2. RE: Rohn Telescoping Masts (JT Croteau)
3. Re: Rohn Telescoping Masts (Mike (KA5CVH) Urich)
4. Tom Cook WA2BPE SK (Thomas Viselli)
5. 2005 ARRL Jan VHF - Claimed Scores 27Jan2005 (Dinkelman, Michael)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:59:24 -0800
From: "JT Croteau" <jt@w6cfo.net>
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Rohn Telescoping Masts
To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
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Anyone using any of the Rohn telescoping masts in any of their rover setups?
I'm curious to know what their collapsed lengths are as I am not finding it
listed in any of the specifications that have come up via google.
Thanks
- JT
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:57:27 -0800
From: "JT Croteau" <jt@w6cfo.net>
Subject: RE: [VHFcontesting] Rohn Telescoping Masts
To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
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John:
I'm replying to the list in hopes that others will read my added babble to
this reply.
K9JK wrote:
"Are you actually FINDING Rohn Telescoping masts??"
Well, I've found a couple different sites which sell communications
equipment that have them listed online. One of the sites is here:
http://www.ecwest.com/shopping/PriceList.asp?sType=3
3/4 of the way down the page. Whether they have them in stock or not is a
different question.
I haven't decided on what I am going to do just yet for my rover. I know
what antennas I want up in the air and I know I want some type of
telescoping mast with the rotor bolted to the bed of the pickup truck but my
fabrication skills are severely limited and I don't have access to a lot of
tools.
I've been looking at a lot of pictures of various rovers over the past few
weeks. All are excellent but, especially all that incorporate rotors in
pickup beds, never seem to take closeup shots of the key areas of install.
Most photos are taken from a good distance away from the vehicle for a great
overall few of the whole rig.
Here's a nice example of a very clean and simple install similar to what I
am trying to achieve. Unfortuately, he is not using any type of telescoping
methods to gain more altitude:
http://www.ka5cvh.com/photos/albums/userpics/roverpix/rover_02.jpg
And here's another nice pickup rover:
http://www.ka5cvh.com/photos/albums/userpics/roverpix/rover_16.jpg
Wimo in Germany has several different masts that would be ideal for roving,
and they are priced within reason until you add on the freight costs from
Germany. I am half tempted to go this route however and just swallow the
heavy price tag.
Here are the Wimo masts I am talking about:
http://www.wimo.de/cgi-bin/verteiler.pl?url=mastalu_e.htm
Thanks to all.
- JT
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:43:38 -0600
From: "Mike (KA5CVH) Urich" <ka5cvh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Rohn Telescoping Masts
To: VHF Contesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
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> K9JK wrote:
>
> "Are you actually FINDING Rohn Telescoping masts??"
Mike wrote
Texas Towers had some last summer.
http://www.texastowers.com/
--
Mike Urich, KA5CVH
http://ka5cvh.com
Character is how you treat people who can offer you nothing in return
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:36:32 -0500
From: "Thomas Viselli" <k2uop@raven-villages.net>
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Tom Cook WA2BPE SK
To: <VHFcontesting@contesting.com>
Cc: Bob Cavallaro <bobcav@charter.net>
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Like many of you on the VHF Reflector and the ham community I was shocked
and saddened by the news that Tom, WA2BPE had passed on.
Tom and I grew up just several blocks apart in Corning, N.Y.
We met before either one of us became hams through our mutual interest in
radio. He was two grades ahead of me in school so I was learning a lot
from him concerning theory and building techniques. Somewhere along the
way another close friend(Bob Cavallaro - K2UOR) and I got our ham liscense
before Tom, so I convinced Tom to learn the code(he was already
profficient in the theory) and get a ticket so he could get on the
air. He had previously built a Heathkit AR-3 receiver so he set out to
build a 6AG7 crystal controlled transmitter from a handbook design in
anticipation of the arrival of his ticket. I tested it out on the air at
his house and he was set to go when the WA2BPE call arrived. Tom had a
well equipped workshop that took up half of the family basement. The
other half was occupied by shelves and benches set up pemanently for
wrapping Christmas presents. This was another hobby that Tom and his
older brother Richard shared. Their Christmas wrapped packages were
a work of art just like all of his ham projects.
After Tom got his Technician Class liscense he got very serious in 6 Meter
operation. A love that endured many years. He was the first person that
I knew of that operated double sideband (DSB) on 6M using a transmitter of
his own design.
We both joined the Corning Amateur Radio Association and enjoyed operating
from a prime mountain location where the club maintained a clubhouse with
equipment and antennas.
Whenever there was a good 6M band opening Tom would get me and we would
drive to the club station to work some exciting DX that we could not work
from our valley homes. We always dreamed of the day that we each could
own and live on such a mountain top location. That dream came to pass for
both of us. After Tom married Barbara he built a home on a mountain near
Corning, and after I retired I settled on a mountain in West Virginia.
After high school Tom went off to college at Alfred State Tech, but we
would always get together on his visits home.
He was like a big brother paving the way for me to follow. After we both
got jobs we found out that we had another common interest in sport
cars. I had bought a MGB and he upmanshipped me by buying a Corvette
Stingray. On one trip to Corning he took me out for a ride and then
turned the wheel over to me for a spin. I guess I never told him how
proud I was that he trusted me behind the wheel of that rocket.
My job with the CIA took me to a lot of overseas locations but Tom and I
always stayed in touch though our favorite medium of ham radio. While I
was in Liberia, West Africa, from 1978-1982 we did not have phones in our
privte residences so Tom built a phone patch so I could talk with my
mother and father in Corning. We had a regular twice a month
schedule. During this period I left my Johnson 6N2 Thunderbolt amplifier
with Tom to use on 6M. I was liscensed as EL2AV and got permission from
the Liberian Telecommunications to operate 6 Meters. We had some good
band openings to the states and Tom, using my amp, was one of my first
stateside QSO's on that band. What a thrill that was for both of us. Tom
later went on to achieve 6 Meter DXCC, an award he was very proud of. He
was also very proud to be a member of the Rochester VHF club. He was
always excited about winning trophies from the club for his VHF contest
accomplishments. I know, like many of you, I will miss rec
eiving that FN12 grid multiplier from Tom.
I don't think he ever missed a Rochester Hamfest either. During our many,
very long, telephone conversations he always had to tell me of the
treasures he bought at each hamfest.
As a ham and a dear friend Tom has given me many wonderful and cherished
memories and he will be sorely missed. Rest in peace Tom DE K2UOP.
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:00:52 -0800
From: "Dinkelman, Michael" <michael.w.dinkelman@medtronic.com>
Subject: [VHFcontesting] 2005 ARRL Jan VHF - Claimed Scores 27Jan2005
To: "3830vhfcontesting" <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
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2005 ARRL Jan VHF - Claimed Scores 27Jan2005
Submit logs by: February 22, 2005
E-mail logs to: JanuaryVHF@arrl.org
Mail logs to:
January VHF
ARRL
225 Main St.
Newington, CT 06111
USA
3830 Score Web Page - http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/
Submission info ( tnx WA7BNM) - http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/
Contest Station Database - http://www.pvrc.org/
73 dink
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Call QSOs Mults hr Score Club
Limited Multi-Op HP
W2FU 707 215 349,160 Rochester VF Group
W3SO 769 172 32 174,064 PVRC
KB1DFB(@KB1H) 491 69 40,434 CT RI Contest Group
K1KC 70 23 1,817
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Limited Multi-Op LP
K5ETX 74 26 2,210 CTDXCC
KE5BAV 46 22 18 1,166
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Call QSOs Mults hr Score Club
Multi-Op HP
K1JT 674 128 33 135,808 Mt Airy VHF Radio Cl
W6TE 271 77 45,353 NCCC
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Call QSOs Mults hr Score Club
Rover LP
W5LL/R 181 55 16 14,080
WW1M/R 100 25 3,400 Grand Mesa
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Call QSOs Mults hr Score Club
Single Op HP
K1TEO 918 210 27 376,950
W3SZ 340 69 69,759 Mt Airy VHF Society
WZ1V 422 95 13 60,610 North East Weak Sign
N3HBX 435 86 20 46,870 PVRC
WB9Z 303 104 12 44,512 SMC
W4WA 219 99 29,700 SECC
W0ZQ 181 61 20,557 Northen Lights Radio
K0HA 80 48 3,840
W5SIX(K5AM) 19 7 1 182
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Single Op LP
K2DRH 465 181 32 133,216 SMC
K1TR 413 90 13 71,820 YCCC
K8MR 191 80 12 20,000 MRRC
K9MU 174 58 12,876 CVVHF
VA3KA 123 37 18 6,475 CCO
W8RU 103 45 4.5 6,030 MRRC
AB9H 130 36 5,256
K2DBK 103 21 2,352 10-70 Repeater Assn
W9RAY 76 17 2,295 Chippewa Valley VHF
VE3WG 84 24 8? 2,232 CCO
NT9E 89 20 2,220 SMC
VE3CRU 65 24 18.5 1,560 CCO
K1EP 102 12 1,356 YCCC
N1RR 83 16 12 1,328 YCCC
KO1H 60 16 5 992 CT RI Contest Group
N0AX 61 15 6 900
W1NN/8 38 19 6 817 MRRC
K5NZ 39 18 3 738 CTDXCC
KB3KAQ 63 11 693 PVRC
W1ECT 37 15 8 570 YCCC
WN6K 29 11 385 SCCC
KI5DR 31 9 24 333 CTDXCC
KR1ST 22 11 275
NU4SC(K3IXD) 23 10 250
VA3DF 13 8 208 CCO
NS3T 30 6 3 186
N5XU(WM5R) 6 4 28
VA3OR(VE3RCN) 5 5 25 CCO
KN4Y 7 3 15 21 FCG
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Single Op Port QRP
N0JK 1 1 1 1
Operators:
K1JT K1JT,K3DMA,KC2DLA,N0YMV
K1KC K1KC,WA4BLM
K5ETX K5ETX,KC5YKX
KB1DFB KB1DFB,KB1H,KE1LI,N1ROZ,W1MKM
W2FU AF2K,K0SM,K2AXX,K2DH,NG2P,W2FU,WA2TMC
W3SO AI3M,K4VV,W3BTX,W3SF,W3TEF,W3YOZ,WR3Z
W5LL/R W5BL,W5LL
W6TE K6AAB,W6ALE,W6TE
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