[Fourlanders] Visalia VHF related topics

[Jim Worsham]

Thanks for reporting on your trip to Visalia.  I encourage everyone to check
out the website.  Sherman does a great job of reporting what happened.
Maybe we should all just chip in to send Sherman to the hamfests and
conventions for us and have him report back.  Sherman, you should definitely
try to make it to the K5AND/W6JQV BBQ in the fall.  I went last year for the
first time and it was an event.  Imagine something like Visalia for 6
meters.  Many of the vendors were there like Icom, Yaesu and Elecraft.  If
you had been there you would have seen and heard about that Elecraft
amplifier and pan adapter there.  They are nice by the way.

73
Jim, W4KXY


It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart
you are.  If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard P. Feynman
-----Original Message-----
From: fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Sherman Banks
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:44 AM
To: 4Landers
Subject: [Fourlanders] Visalia VHF related topics

I was at the Visalia International DX Convention this past weekend and there
was a surprising number of VHF related topics that was there.

 

-          Mark Hooper, President of Force 12, just went on and on about the
K5AND BBQ during his new product presentation. Evidently all ham radio
technical and operational issues are discussed and solved at this BBQ.

-          K6BV gave a fascinating talk on a 6M DXpedition to St. Andres and
the issues in putting that island on the air.

-          Elecraft will be coming out with a 500W solid state amplifier
that will operate from HF-6M.  It matches the K3 and is close in size to the
K3. It has a linear power supply so it may be a bit heavy for DXpeditions or
portable operation. They had non-functional units there. Should be ready by
2011.

-          Elecraft also had a sharp pan-adapter that they were
demonstrating. This thing will detect signals to the noise floor. There is a
knob that you can use to tune to a signal of interest and then push it in to
instantly QSY to that signal. This is similar operation to the Flex Radios
but without using the mouse. Taking orders now and shipping later in the
year.

 

Pictures at http://tiny.cc/f5j81

 

 

 

 

 

 

_______________________________________________
Fourlanders mailing list
Fourlanders at contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/fourlanders