W4KAZ

IOTA 2010 – Cape Lookout Expedition

w4kaz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:03:20 +0000

Operating under special event call N4A, for the fourth year we once again activated the South Core Banks from Cape lookout a few miles up the beach from the CALO lighthouse. Fun facts and photo strip on the N4A operation on its web site. Additional photos on flickr. Also a short youtube clip of N4YDU [...]

Just A Way Cool Idea

w4kaz — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:05:56 +0000

Don’t know if its practical, but its a great experiment even if it only makes it to proof of concept. A project to create a mouseless mouse.

Inverted-L Matching

w4kaz — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:36:20 +0000

The 160 Inverted-L is about 160 feet of wire. To get a good match there is a series capacitor in line with the wire. The bandwidth for any useful value of capacitance is about 40kc. The object is to use a set of relays to switch in or out additional capacitors. That will allow the [...]

Wind Damage To The Biological Antenna Support Structures

w4kaz — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:03:05 +0000

Getting home from vacation a couple of weeks back, a huge branch was found in the rear area of the antenna farm. One ginormous limb had fallen from one of the white oaks holding the north-south 40 meter dipole. It was on the opposite side from that antenna, but must have crossed paths with the [...]

Field Day 2010 as NR3X

w4kaz — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:12:28 +0000

Had fun again for Field Day with N4YDU. Always do. Even though it was miserably hot and humid this year. Operated this year under the NC Contesters call NR3X.

We had a crew of ‘ringers’ on 40m CW. W0UCE, N3ND, and K2AV ran up a nice QSO count on 40Cw. Other operators were AA4XX, K4CZ, N4GU, [...]

Well Done

w4kaz — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:45:30 +0000

Well done Katia. I would like to be this good one day myself! Link arrived here via N3ND. Tnx Dan.

2010 Dayton Hamvention Collection

w4kaz — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:57:16 +0000

(This post to be amended as more links turn up, de w4kaz, last update 2010-06-09)

Well, sure, Dayton 2010 was probably very much like 2009, or 1995, or 1970. But its more fun to go than to stay home.

But congratulations to my friend Nathan, N4YDU. This year Nate placed 6th the in the annual pile-up competition [...]

2010 CQ WPX CW As NR3X

w4kaz — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:59:57 +0000

N4YDU was on the sidelines/out-of-action for the weekend, so I took NR3X out for a spin in the WPX. So for those who would be wondering why NR3X was suddenly a lid, well, there it is. Apologies to all who expected NR3X to be piloted by a good CW op.

Original plans to put in a [...]

ARRL 160m LCR(2009)

w4kaz — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:54:11 +0000

Noticed on Saturday last week that the log check reports for the 2009 ARRL 160m contest had been posted on the ARRL website. How I found them, I’m not sure. The ARRL site has been well shuffled. In my life as a DP professional, it was important to stress the significance such sweeping change would [...]

Vicarious Hamvention

w4kaz — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:18:19 +0000

Gates open,yet here I sit 500 miles away. Crap.

Looks like the WA5KUB Dayton Hamvention “monkey cam” is up again. Audio too. That should get the boss peeking over the cubical walls.

For the chat window, use the “ignore panel” in the drop down to filter out the folks from the 75m Tuner-Upper net. Better than a [...]