[Fourlanders] June Contest Stuff

[Jim Worsham]

Roger on writelog 10.55.  If everyone else is Ok with that then I am OK with
it.  I will go ahead and do the upgrade here.  One less thing to worry about
on the mountain.

Thanks again for the use of the 1/2" hardline.  I have an FM dual bander
(146/440) that I am going to bring and Bob is going to bring a dual band
vertical antenna and feedline.  If you want to use your tribander for FM
that is OK with me.  I will bring an extra 100' of LMR400.

73
Jim, W4KXY

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian McCarthy [mailto:rfacres at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 8:05 AM
To: Fourlanders Contest Group
Cc: wa4kxy at bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] June Contest Stuff

Jim,

Look for my answers after your questions...

On 6/5/06, Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I spent some time this afternoon and evening getting the 144 MHz 
> station together and doing some testing.  As a result I have several 
> questions/issues.
>
> 1. I am going to use the Asus PC that I bought from Dick, K5AND.  It 
> has writelog verion 10.54 installed.  Is that what we are going to use 
> on the mountain?  If not, do I need to upgrade or downgrade?  I have 
> version 10.45 on CD (I have a license for that version) and can install
that if necessary.
> If we decide to use some other version then someone is going to have 
> to bring it to the mountain.  I also saw an email on the VHF reflector 
> about a new version of the master.dta (super-check-partial) file being
available.
> Should I download and install that?  Those of you who are writelog 
> savy please advise.

I used 10.55d for all of my network testing after the September contest. I
would like to use that version. I will have the upgrade file with me when we
get to the mountain, or you can download it and apply it yourself ahead of
time from:

http://www.writelog.com/Downloads/WL1055DUPG.ZIP

>
> 2. What are the plans for food?  Last I heard we might have someone 
> cooking for us.  Is that still going to happen or do we need to bring our
own?

I hope there is still a cook. We kind of need to know today or tomorrow.
Bob, any info?

>
> 3. Do I need to bring a table?  In the past I brought one of the big 
> white tables but more times than not it didn't get used and when it 
> did it was for cooking/eating.  Bob always supplied a table for me to 
> operate on.  Are you going to do that again Bob?  If so and we don't 
> need the big white table I would rather just leave it at home.

In "Great White" you will need a table. There were two there when I looked
last weekend. One of mine that I will use and another that is either Neal's
or Bob's.

>
> 4. Ron, do you need the 432 filter?
>
> 5. I am assuming at this time that all antennas and feedlines will be 
> supplied for the 144 MHz station.  This includes both beams, phasing 
> lines, power divider, feedline and rotator.  This also includes the 
> dual band verticle and feedline for 144/440 MHz FM.  All of that stuff 
> was supplied in the past and I just wanted to make sure that was still the
case.

My "spare" (or second) 100' piece of 1/2" hardline is available.
Classsically, it has been  used for 2m. I have no problem with it happening
again. I am reserving one of my 10' pieces of 1/2" hardline and my 100' run
of 9913 for 222 horizontal and vertical respectively.
The 2m antennas were in the trailer also, but Bob Will need  to confirm the
phasing harnessand rotor.

I can bring my 144/222/440 vertical, FM tribander and triplexer. We might
want an extra feedline for it as I was planning on using a 4-el beam for 220
vertical. I will pack it so that we have choices.

>
> That is all that I have for now.  If anyone needs me to bring 
> something please let me know ASAP.  I have started packing.

Power distribution preparations are all butcomplete. There is one power plug
and short cable to connect into the power panel. The wire iss expeced from
Ivan, K4VJM. If there is a problem, there is an alternate connection method.

I have the 6m antennas and harnesses. (Thank you Ron!)

I will have a Writelog server, all networking cables, ethernet hubs and GPS
clock as usual.

What elsse do we need to cover?

Brian
NX9O