Hi Ed,
I am also going to be putting up some new wire this year. Maybe we should get
the F.A.R.T. together. I have a pneumatic launcher, etc. Be thinking of you
tomorrow.
Alan
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On Apr 10, 2016, at 7:29 PM, Ed Hutchinson <ehutch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Cathy,
Thanks for the notice about the CW practice net.
I think I will "listen only" at least the first week or perhaps two. The
only antenna I have up right now is a 160m dipole. I just tried to load it in
several places in the 80m band and I can't get better than 6:1 with a tuner
anywhere. It seems to work tolerably on 40m, 20m, 15m, and 10m (not 1:1 but
usable), but nothing doing on 80.
We have our annual Green Mountain Chorus concert this week and I will be
traveling up to Winooski or Essex Jct several times this week (tomorrow, and
Tues, and Friday, and Saturday). Who would have thought singing would have
such a big carbon footprint.
There is little chance that I will hang up an 80m dipole tomorrow (but I
should be home by 7:00 or soon after to listen, if I can find the group). The
GMC tech crew is meeting at EJHS at 2:00 (for an hour or two - if one
believes that). I know I have several multiband antennas and I think at
least one 80m 1/2wave wire cut with coax attached. But they are out in the
barn somewhere, and I will need to figure out where to hang one.
Ed, n1fmp