[VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] 222 Activity Night

[Ron Klimas WZ1V]

Larry - When I first moved I bought seven 6 foot sections 
of 0.12 in wall aluminum from DX Engineering. 
The start at 3 in OD down to 1.5 in OD. 
I bought another 1.25 in section somewhere else. 
Cut crisscross slits one end for SS hose clamps, 
Overlapped each 2 feet for a rigid 34 ft telescoping mast, 
used Mastrant guy rope at top below rotor. 
After I put a tower up, I use the mast sell supporting 
no guy rope at 22 ft to hold my 10M Moxon now. 

73 Ron WZ1V

----- Original Message -----
From: z man <zm1267 at gmail.com>
To: David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>
Cc: "222 >> 222Activity at groups.io" <222Activity at groups.io>,        vhfcontesting at contesting.com, NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:34:35 -0400
Subject: Re: [NEWSVHF] [VHFcontesting] 222 Activity Night

> Hi Dave, N1MIW Larry here. Im Sitting in the same fog bank as you down here
> in RI. Sounds like the generator issue is finally resolved! Hope to work
> you, WZ1V and others tonight. Only running 100w and a 7 ele at 20' here for
> the time being. If anyone has suggestions for a telescopic mast (can't do a
> tower right now) I'd love to hear about it.
> 
> Larry
> FN41fp
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 10:35 AM David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I am sitting in a real fog bank, with visibility around 250 ft. It is
> > overcast and wet.  So it must be time for the fabulous 222 Activity
> > Night this evening.  I trust other parts of the country are having
> > better weather.  So take your cue and march into the ham shack after
> > dinner and fire up the 222 gear and try to work someone on the band.
> > Here in the Northeast and Golden Corridor, there is a goodly amount of
> > activity. A slow night would be 10 QSOs for the big guys, while a good
> > night is closer to 20 QSOs. Good Buddy Ron, WZ1V posts his tallies each
> > week and it is a good resource for gauging activity levels.  In other
> > parts of the country things might be a bit less active, but I have seen
> > some big numbers from K9MRI in Indiana.  AA9MY, AJ6T, N1GC, W5EME, and
> > many others are usually in there making noise. This is a great
> > situation, and it might be a good exercise for those in the more
> > populous areas to try a sked or two with these folks who are beyond
> > their normal operating area.  The ON4KST Chat Page is a great resource
> > for setting up such skeds. (144/432 Region 2 Chat)
> >
> > Last week, I had a radio club presentation on Tuesday evening and had to
> > QRT around 23:30 UT. I worked a number of 222 MHz stations early on
> > including WA3EOQ for my 500 mile QSO of the day.  The generator was
> > acting up with constant speed oscillation. The room lights were
> > pulsating to the funky 1 Hz beat. I am not sure how all the 222 gear
> > likes that ugly voltage swing, but thank God for three terminal
> > regulators!!   The next two days I spent working over the generator. I
> > turned it on Wednesday and it was working fine, but later on, another
> > try was met with the oscillation again, and I swapped out the entire
> > encapsulated speed regulator with a new one. The oscillations were
> > immediately gone, and I tested the setup many times with a start up and
> > shut down. Each attempt was met with stable performance. On Monday
> > morning, I ran it for several hours and powered up my 28 MHz linear amp
> > along with electric baseboard heating and all worked just fine for the
> > entire time.  Ten meters was hopping!   So I am all fired up to try it
> > tonight on 222 Night. I am hoping that the AC power is stable and
> > conditions on the band are not too bad!!
> >
> > But, than, there is never a bad night on 222 Tuesdays as it is so much
> > fun to tune around and look for signals, meet old friends, and try
> > something new to test out your gear.  I like to say hi to old friends
> > and also to look for transient propagation conditions.  We did not get
> > much tropo this fall, but I am still optimistic. We might even get an
> > aurora. I can't wait for that too!  So dust off your microphone, and
> > polish up those code key contacts.  222Activity Night is calling you! Be
> > there or be square.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Dave K1WHS
> >
> > ps. A number of people have told me that I am always in a fog bank.
> >
> >
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