Re: [BVARC] Antenna help

2024-06-19 Thread John Denison via BVARC
To elevate it, use the force. 🙂 73 John Denison KD5YOU On 6/19/2024 8:24 PM, Andre Pollard via BVARC wrote: Thanks all for the feedback. No chance to work on it today, even if the weather had cooperated.  I can get it to work fine on 20M and up, and since the trip starts soon, I'm going to t

Re: [BVARC] Antenna help

2024-06-19 Thread Andre Pollard via BVARC
Thanks all for the feedback. No chance to work on it today, even if the weather had cooperated. I can get it to work fine on 20M and up, and since the trip starts soon, I'm going to try it again when we get back. Going to try another testing location to rule out interference that only seems to af

Re: [BVARC] Antenna help

2024-06-19 Thread John Denison via BVARC
Hi Andre I was going to mention the 33' counterpoises, but I see that you have done that already. I've used a single counterpoise on 40 meters with various coil antennas. One thing I didn't see in any of the emails is... where are you setting up your antenna? Is there anything metallic nearby?

[BVARC] Field Day 2024

2024-06-19 Thread Richard Bonica via BVARC
To all, *Field Day is coming!* Please sign up for a position on the following sheets to grab your position. We need as many helpers as we can. *NOTE!* You can invite others to help - you do not need to be licensed. Good time for those kids to get their volunteer time in. Also : Quality fa

Re: [BVARC] Mailing List

2024-06-19 Thread Jimmy Vance via BVARC
This is a self subscribed list.  There is a link at the bottom of each message that takes you to a page to manage your subscriptions.   You can also set digest mode so you only get an email with all the days messages in one email On 6/19/2024 9:32 AM, Ronald Mahle via BVARC wrote: How do I g

Re: [BVARC] Mailing List

2024-06-19 Thread chuck hale via BVARC
https://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/options/bvarc_bvarc.org From BVARC web page From: BVARC on behalf of Ronald Mahle via BVARC Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 7:32 AM To: 'BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB' Cc: mahl...@att.net Subject: [BVARC] Mailing List How do I

[BVARC] Field Day Set-up Explanations

2024-06-19 Thread Rick Hiller via BVARC
FYI If you are interested in why and how we do things at our 4 club Field Day event, the following articles from the BVARC Beacon will explain: June 2019 Beacon -- https://bvarc.org/newsletter/201906.pdf "The Radio Hotel -- Field Day -- A Curious Ham Radio Confluence" "Fie

[BVARC] Mailing List

2024-06-19 Thread Ronald Mahle via BVARC
How do I get off this mailing list? My personal email (mahl...@att.net ) is blown up. I have entered my ham traffic email address into the BVARC website, but I keep getting these emails, sometimes 10 per day. My BVARC email address should be n6...@att.net

Re: [BVARC] Field Day and K3's

2024-06-19 Thread Allen Brier via BVARC
I've received several offers from this email: Norm N9MM has a K3 - he lives between Conroe and Cleavland Bill WI5P has a K3 - he lives in the Austin/Bastrop area. And of course Jerry K9GEM in Channelview. If anyone is near or going to be near any of these areas before this week