SRD Setup Report for W7LKO Elko
Saturday we got the antennas set up at the weather station. Had a pretty fair turn out of people lending a hand.
Helping out were, Gene, Dave Potter, Jack, Steve & Nory, Patrick, Jim Derrick, and Jim Beech.
Ran into a bad barrel connector on the beam's feedline and the rope used to hoist the Skelton Cone up the NWS tower was rotten but got everything squared away. Got together at JR's for coffee and a bowl of buffalo chili afterwards.
Now this coming Friday at noon we will begin set up the gear and work out the bugs so at 1600 we can go on the air. Skywarn runs 24 hrs. from 1600 Friday to 1600 Saturday. It's not a contest like the ARRL and CQ DX contests, VHF Contests or even Field Day. Logs are kept and submitted plus the National Weather Service does issue certificates of different kinds to stations who have contacted participating NWS stations like ours.
We can get some pretty decent pileups so we try to cut the ragchewing to a minimum so as many stations can QSO us for certificates. Our callsign is WX7LKN and we often are in the top 4 scoring stations in the country but to do this we need people to keep the rigs smoking. 3 or 4 folks can't do it alone so if you are licensed (any class) or unlicensed there are control operators there to keep it legal.
If you make it to the weather station, first please sign the guest book then let somebody know you'd like to take a whack at operating. You'll get to sit with an op and see how things work then go solo when you're ready.
Years ago Paul Essaultier (sp) from the NWS came in and sat down. He had no license or experience but when he got behind the radio he went totally nuts and piled up a ton of QSO's.
Hope to see you there.
Dave, W7GK
Helping out were, Gene, Dave Potter, Jack, Steve & Nory, Patrick, Jim Derrick, and Jim Beech.
Ran into a bad barrel connector on the beam's feedline and the rope used to hoist the Skelton Cone up the NWS tower was rotten but got everything squared away. Got together at JR's for coffee and a bowl of buffalo chili afterwards.
Now this coming Friday at noon we will begin set up the gear and work out the bugs so at 1600 we can go on the air. Skywarn runs 24 hrs. from 1600 Friday to 1600 Saturday. It's not a contest like the ARRL and CQ DX contests, VHF Contests or even Field Day. Logs are kept and submitted plus the National Weather Service does issue certificates of different kinds to stations who have contacted participating NWS stations like ours.
We can get some pretty decent pileups so we try to cut the ragchewing to a minimum so as many stations can QSO us for certificates. Our callsign is WX7LKN and we often are in the top 4 scoring stations in the country but to do this we need people to keep the rigs smoking. 3 or 4 folks can't do it alone so if you are licensed (any class) or unlicensed there are control operators there to keep it legal.
If you make it to the weather station, first please sign the guest book then let somebody know you'd like to take a whack at operating. You'll get to sit with an op and see how things work then go solo when you're ready.
Years ago Paul Essaultier (sp) from the NWS came in and sat down. He had no license or experience but when he got behind the radio he went totally nuts and piled up a ton of QSO's.
Hope to see you there.
Dave, W7GK