Richmond Amateur Telecomm. Society

I have been lax about posting the checkins to the weekly Net. I will now post 2 weeks ago and last weeks nets. The net two weeks ago was held at the University of Richmond.

The June 5th net checkins are as follows:

1. kg4peq   Steve
2. kf4hvx    Oliver
3. ki4rfu      John
4. kj4ash    Bill
5. ki4wck   Charles
6. kg4pez  Joe
7. kf6cue   Cas
8. kg6gcq  Debbie
9. ki4oru    Wayne
10. kj4it        Jerry
11. kg4gls    Terry
12. k4cmr     Steve
13. kj4vxy    Barry
14. n4xbp     Marshall
15. ke4eue   Joe
16. n4act     Jim
17. ai4vj      George

For the June 12 the net the checkins are as follows:

1. kg4peq     Steve
2. k4cmr       Steve
3. kj4ash       Bill
4. ki4wck      Charles
5. ki4oru       Wayne
6. kg4yjb      Rob
7. ab4fj         Ricky

Below are the checking to last Thursday’s net on the 29th. Next weeks net will be carried out from the University of Richmond campus at the net control station for special Olympics

n4pat   Tray
kg4peq  Steve
ki4rfu  John
k4cmr   Steve
w1mcr   Mike
ki4wck  Charles
kg4gls  Terry
ki4jzy  Bob
ki4oru  Wayne
kg4yxp  Anthony

Brad Net control KI4BWJ

As on 5/24/08,  we’re on the air in Dillwyn, VA.. many thanks to Gordon Winn (WW4GW) for letting RATS use his tower site for this project.  Next time I’m there I’ll take pictures — what a view!!

Peter Martin
KF4VIZ

Is anyone interested in building this rig that won the homebrew contest? I read through the article and noted that it can be built on perf board or printed wiring boards designed for the project. My days of building transceivers on perf board are long since past but  the minimum PWB ordering  quantity is two sets for  ~ $100. I really don’t want to build two transceivers so I’m looking for someone to split the cost of a PWB order. I’d even be willing to order a second set of parts for the $50 projected in the article (probably less since I have the microprocessor and several other parts on the shelf.

If you are interested in splitting the cost of this transceiver build, please drop me a line at <my call sign>  at puwaba DOT com

Regards,

George/AI4VJ

We had the following checkins on the 8:00pm net.

n4pat     Tray
ki4rft      Patricia
ki4rfu     John
kg4peq  Steve
k4cmr    Steve
ki4zlb     Gary
n4dwk    Dave
ke4eue   Joe

Thanks to all and see you at 8:00 on the 146.880 and 442.550 repeaters.

73

KI4BWJ

We had the following checkins on the May 1st Net:

Call               Name
ki4rfu             John
kg4peq          Steve
ki4wck           Charles
kf4viz             Peter
ke4eue           Joe
ki4oru             Wayne
kg4liq             Mike
w4zj               Jon
w4phm           Patrick

Two announcements as well, Special Olympics on June 6th and 7th www.ke4eue.org for more info. Also Peter is looking for help in APRS site work. aprs(at)rats.net for more info.

See you Thursday night at 8:00pm on 146.880

Brad (ki4bwj)

 And some other things going on at Geekfest 2.0 at the Science Museum:

G33K FSTVL 2.0 Jason Baum, Super-Cuber (You Tube) 

Panier was almost the “unwanted” site, having no “free electric power” is a major issue to be dealt with.

The solution was a solar system of Kyocera panels, Morningstar Solar controller & AGM deep cycle batteries(2NF style, the only AGM light enough to hoist on a rope)

After 2 site visits for inspection & prep-work, this site went up on December 22nd, 2007.. starting at 10am onsite and leaving at 6pm - with ABSOLUTELY NO TIME TO SPARE before dusk.

The usual suspects, Brad(KI4BWJ), Rob(KG4YJB), <an unnamed helper> and myself.  I’m not mentioning the unnamed helper because I paid him, and I almost dropped on a tool on his head from 200 feet in the air (shh… that was a secret).

73 - KF4VIZ

The Victoria installation was yet another “great day in amateur radio”.   The day after completing Cauthornville, “yours truly” decided that 1 tower installation was not punishment enough.. So after much coaxing, Rob(KG4YJB), Brad(KI4BWJ) & I trekked to Victoria.  You can see by the picture who was in the air and who was not.

This site is approximately 250′ above ground

73 - KF4VIZ

W4RAT-7 is located in Cauthornville, Virginia at 300′ above ground.

I owe Jay(N9WMU) & Jerry(KJ4IT) thanks for convincing me that I would die attempting this alone.  And then I owe Brad(KI4BWJ) & Rob(KG4YJB) for doing the actual climbing.  I provided on HECK of a ground-crew, but it’s the tower-crew that made it all happen!

73 - KF4VIZ