“Hendricks County Ham Club”
From Amateur Radio Field Day 2017. Posted by Cal Merritt on 6/27/2017 (22 items)
- excellent signs
- interesting antenna
- N9CQ
- antenna project
- a very complex RF choke
- MORE POWER
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Hamvention 2017
“from setup day thursday”
From Hamvention 2017. Posted by Cal Merritt on 5/19/2017 (74 items)
- hams everywhere
- this clown was a pig
- the mobile bracket is a mercadies. this radio runs about $15,000
- beeeg leeenier
- beeeg leeenier
- hmmmm, a 440 Mhz square-low…..i think that is the right terminology.
- base camp 1
- there was a little rain
- a few sprinkles
- the REAL hams stuck it out
- oh yeah, and some wind….
- all that being siad, i heard the fiar grounds folks are goint to gravel the flea mark…
- the drawing sunday
- N0XFU missed a winner by -1- number.
- the end
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Brownsburg International Hamvention 2017
“First decent hamfest of 2017”
From Brownsburg International Hamvention 2017. Posted by Cal Merritt on 2/18/2017 (19 items)
- I took pictures late in the show, it was very well attended
- from lafayette
- CQ
- AC9NK mad dog watts
- a modern texting machine
- this show was packed until about noon
- you can buy smarts
- more books
- stuff in cigar boxes
- plainfield gary
- these two guys worked the ticket counter ALL day
- the repeater coordinator hiding in the corner
- the avon crew
- old radios
- herb
- KB9MID’s table
- DEBCO
- old guys
- it was a nice show, a lot of people
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Dayton Hamvention 2016
“we got there wednesday afternoon”
From Dayton Hamfest 2016. Posted by Cal Merritt on 5/20/2016 (66 items)
- first we need POWER
- wired to code as usual
- got firewood
- hamvention base camp 1
- dave has been holding out on his tractor collection
- a sad super H farmall
- i am bailing out at this point
- W8QHV
- the cool super cat mouse hunter
- poor redneck trailer park
- dave has stuff to sell
- pat doing minor repairs
- this stuff is going to the tractor show up north, not the hamfest
- set up day inside
- this will soon look a lot different
- more set up
- tomorrow this will be packed
- some heathgkit gear
- W8CQ in person
- there is a verity of items in the flea market
- a new guy set up in our old spaces
- excellent hamfest food. smells like burned hair actually
- no winners in our group yet
- uh…..service dog ?
- the main arena is busy now
- radio tower for sale
- crowd picture
- keys
- a main hallway
- flex radios
- pieces parts
- MARS
- the room is full now, see shot from setup day
- crowd picture
- odd outfit, Scottish ??
- brass CW keys
- see set up day shot, a busy area today
- i never did see what this guy was selling
- mark from RSGB
- he is having a good day
- RSGB has all the good antenna books
- these guys always have the best looking booth
- more keys
- the salvation army booth
- even MORE keys
- steam punk art ??
- the kenmore display
- a killer attack dog
- i need a hat antenna
- he was a good guy
- yaesu vintage radio display
- i owned most of this stuff at one time or another
- these guys always have the best display
- a main arena shot
- interesting display
- some HV parts
- crop dusting at big daves free ham radio operator camping facility
- coming back around
- low
- REALLY LOW
- drawing for prizes starting
- N0XFU
- on the way home, accident on east bound I-70
- a bad accident
- a fatality, apparently a reckless and speeding truck caused it
- someone taking their hamfest purchase home
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Brownsburg Hamfest 2016
“first hamfest of the year and indoors”
From Brownsburg Hamfest 2016. Posted by Cal Merritt on 2/13/2016 (17 items)
- crowd shit, are you there ??
- tables of junk….uh…hamfest treasures
- long view from the stage
- some newer decent radios
- there was chow also, and a BAR
- tag’em and bag’em
- long view of goodies for sale
- greetings people of earth, we come in peace
- some real vintage collins gear
- smarts for sale
- antennas for sale
- socialism explained
- some of the young people with the beginnings of a battle bot
- a very nice display
- you can see who is really in charge here
- turn out was good
- some odd items
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The New 145.29 Repeater Hardware
“The Yaesu DR-1X”
From The new 145.29 repeater hardware. Posted by Cal Merritt on 9/24/2015 (6 items)
- out of the box
- the usual cords, etc
- on the shelf and powered up in about 5 minutes
- the transmit cavities
- cords and coax hooked up
- i should have timed it, but i think the whole job of disconnecting the old stuff and …
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AB9D Tower!
These are my awesome tower pictures. You have all been waiting to see them.
“free standing 120 foot Pirod, steel, free standing”
From Tower construction 2014. Posted by Cal Merritt on 12/22/2015 (81 items)
- every journey starts with the first shovel full of dirt
- 12 x 12 x 4 foot more or less
- the clay digs well
- mike loves to play in the mud
- there was one death during the project
- rebar cage
- this was total commercial overkill on the base
- concrete
- one two truck pour
- mike doing the finish work
- setting up for the base section
- crane
- another view of the boom truck
- the X-7 beam ready to install
- mike going to work
- working at the top
- setting up the 2 meter beam on the antenna test stand
- checking out the 6 meter beam
- this is what a X-7 beam looks like when you take it out of the box
- the 145.29 repeater RX and TX antennas
- another view of the assembled X-7
- hauling up steel
- the base
- this is the front row seating
- nice view of the boom truck
- lowering the all important base section in place
- i did some of the moving of steel with the Boomer 8N tractor
- more steel going up
- steel work
- custom cut and designed top plate and rotor plate
- N0XFU clowning around
- travis could not control his excitement
- the capstone
- mike gets a lot of exercise
- close up on the installed top plate
- looking down from the top working position
- the Cox property to the west, Wayne’s World
- a view of Brock farms
- mike, the tower guy
- dweeb
- 6 meter beam going up
- top repeater receiver antenna on a side mount i made out of angle iron
- the "bonus" tower, more pix on this later
- looking up from the base
- Brock’s new grain elevator which is exactly the same hight
- looking down on the X-7 which went up later, took a bigger boom truck
- AB9D
- Sue and Sadie going for a walk out by the garden.
- close up of the side arm mounts
- the repeater side arms i made hold the RX and TX antennas for the 145.29
- longer view
- surge supressors in a sealed metal box
- all LMR400 out the bottom
- to the trench
- rather than fill this in i put a 2 x 4 on the open trench in case i later wanted to a…
- up and into the militia command and comm center
- 120 feet to the rotor plate
- tower project this time is to replace some poor quality rope with the best stuff
- going up, N0XFU
- one thing to remember is to make one run up and down for a wire antenna is 250 feet o…
- the stuff unrolled well
- don’t look down
- i got a great antenna ideal for this rope
- getting it done
- i was hoping for one trip up but some minor problems made it 1 and 2/3’s trips up
- the main antenna systems
- ground wire bonding to the tower legs, there are three of these
- that is an 8′ copper plated ground rod
- the transient absorber enclosure inside the steel work
- the interior of the metal box
- entry gaskets
- a longer view
- all cables are buried into the militia compound command and communications center
- the long view
- at the top of the 145.29 transmit antenna
- at the base of the 145.29 receiver antenna
- the final push
- hooking up
- repairs were later successful
- it is all downhill from here
- never ever EVER stand directly under a tower and never EVER look up if you are standi…
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