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<b> Wings'N Things</b>

<b> May 1-2,2004 </b>

<b> San Martin, California </b>

Hi all,

Many many thanks to Don Trigueiro, Bill Gleason, Thom West and Jim Loring
for all the long hours of work expended Friday, April 30th, which allowed us
to get the antenna and station setup. It was a lot of work but I think it
was worth it. Thanks to Tony Armendariz and Bill Culbertson, also, for
getting the crank up mast for us. It worked like a dream.

We operated with a special event call, W6H (Wings of History). We had a
total of 45 QSOs including 9 from Italy, 6 from Russia, 1 from France, 1
from Slovenia and 1 from Austria. (Sorry to tell you Thom, but that
Sardinian station you worked was actually in Italy.) We had a pipeline into
Italy and there was a contest going on which kept them calling CQ! Operators
who logged QSOs were: N7FF, KD6CJX, KA6VVE and W6SC. I'm sorry that others
didn't get to log some Q's. Especially Bill Gleason. I owe you a few Bill.

Of the 45 QSOs, 12 were on CW. All were on 20 meters. We heard a very
slight amount of activity on 15M but nothing on 10M. We put up a vhf/uhf
antenna but never used it. Sorry to all those repeater users for not making
QSOs.

The club's beam worked very well. The 2:1 SWR bandwidth values for the 3
bands were 13.8Mhz to 14.7 Mhz, 20.9 Mhz to 21.85 Mhz and 27.69Mhz to 29.3
Mhz.

The 27ft mast went up very easily. Jim loaned us 4 short stakes which were
easily put in and removed compared to the large ones we normally use. Four
guy ropes were used at the 10 ft level. The antenna cranked up using an
electric drill. We manually cranked it down with a makeshift handle. No
effort really. That worm gear really works well.

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