Hail to Pitt! Thanks for the welcome! W3YI has taken a bit of a dip in activity since your time as a grad student. Right now, we do not have any HF capabilities at the club. The beam that was on top of Benedum engineering hall had to be taken down about a year or two ago for renovations to be done. However, Juan Manfredi (NA0B) made sure that we would be able to 'put the beam back up' after the renovations. That meant a brand new tower and a StepIR DB-36 40-6m Yagi! We are extremely excited for the tower and antenna to go up. We are waiting for a crane that will hopefully come over the summer to bring the tower and antenna up to the top of the building. Then the building engineers will have to install the tower, and we will probably build the antenna (probably will have to build it on the roof). Everyone at W3YI is hoping for this all to be done by the end of the year 2011.
Harry Bloomberg, W3YJ, also an alumni, is our repeater trustee and an active member of W3YI. I have gotten to know Harry quite a bit and enjoy working with him. I'm not sure how familiar you are about the current repeater setup here at Pitt, but I'll let you know anyway. Harry has our repeater set to 443.45Mhz with about 40W ERP. The repeater is housed in a heated room on the top of the Cathedral with other RF equipment. We use a Diamond dual bander base for the antenna. We are in the process of setting up an APRS digipeater that we can diplex into the repeater. We also have an EchoLink node setup. The node number is 443450 (W3YJ-R) So, if you ever want to connect to the repeater on EchoLink, you should find at least myself listening to the machine. Hope to talk to you on the air! Geoffrey Wolf AB3LS - Amateur Radio Callsign University of Pittsburgh '14 gr...@pitt.edu liltechd...@me.com (412) 450-1310 > -----Original Message----- > From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] > On Behalf Of Vic K2VCO > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 1:32 AM > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Forums? > > Congratulations on being a Pitt student! I was a grad student there in the late 1960's. I > spent far more time at the W3YI station than I did studying. We had a tribander on the > 10-story building across from the Cathedral of Learning -- they would not allow us to > put our antenna on the Cathedral. I worked tons of great DX from there with the beam > and kW! > In my student apartment a few blocks away I had to be content with a DX60 and 20m > dipole at about 30 feet. > > What does this have to do with Elecraft? Or Outlook rules? Nothing, just wanted to > welcome Geoffrey. > > On 3/26/2011 10:10 PM, Geoffrey Wolf wrote: > > Thank You for the welcome! I was using a different email address that > > was made under my father's home Verizon account so the name was set to his name. > > My name is Geoffrey. His name is Robert. > > > > I need one little bit of advice on the mailing list thing. I created a > > rather weird quick step here in Outlook so that I can reply to the > > mailing list rather than the person that replied to me. However, even > > though I made the rule to reply the message to > > elecr...@mailmain.qth.net it still adds the person's email who I'm > > replying to. Is there a way to set up a rule or quick step in Outlook 2010 so that I > reply ONLY to elecraft@mailman.qth.net? > > > > I guess I'm being a little picky because my current method only > > involved me clicking once on the person's address and hitting delete > > but it would be nice if there was a cleaner method. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Geoffrey Wolf > > AB3LS - Amateur Radio Callsign > > University of Pittsburgh '14 > > gr...@pitt.edu > > liltechd...@me.com > > (412) 450-1310 > > -- > Vic, K2VCO > Fresno CA > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
