This weekend is the last full weekend to get your antennas QRV for the PreStew coming up on October 20th at 1500Z.
At the home station of the Boring Amateur Radio club - my antenna currently is not complete. I have a new 97 foot tower with a full sized Steppir Monster on top and have laid down the first two radials. Will be working hard this weekend getting the radial count up and figuring out the gamma match to load the tower. The tower and antenna is the same configuration I had running at my temporary QTH during the past three years. It required some top loading when used with the elements retracted - about 50 feet or wire. So I am guessing I can deal with the extra tower height by reducing the length of the loading wire at the top of the tower. The Hi-Z 4 square antenna has not been deployed yet either... so that will be on the list after getting the TX antenna setup. Beverages will have to wait until December since there is just too much to be done and not enough time. The complete results from the BigStew are in process. We have enlisted the help of Guy, K2AV, to figure out the plaque winners. We should have them posted shortly after the PreStew and then you can prepare yourself for the posts from W7EW organizing the sponsors for the plaques for the December event. Rules and other stuff at http://www.kkn.net/stew 73 Tree N6TR / K7RAT _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband