As long as the blender in the RV didn't malfunction, who cares? I visited the Fresno (California) ARC who had setup an emergency power operation in the parking lot of a Fresno shopping center. I'm sure it was no coincidence that the shopping center was directly across the street from the Hamfest being held by another area ARC (a bit of a range war has been going on between the two). I kept thinking "Can't we just get along?" == Andy Oppel, N6AJO At 07:54 PM 9/19/2005, you wrote:
Greg,
This shows just how classy you are. I wouldnt have cared whether I was ginning up the contacts or was Jacking (Daniels) them up or even Killiansing (Red) them up!
With the recent discussion of emergency power by the Board family, I guess I finally need to break down and buy a generator! This has been one of my round tuit projects for several years, anyway.
73,
Jim Weaver, K8JE Director, Great Lakes Division ARRL; <http://www.arrl.org/>http://www.arrl.org/ 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 Tel.: 513-459-0142; E-mail: <mailto:k8je@arrl.org>k8je@arrl.org ARRL: The reason Amateur Radio Is! MEMBERS: The reason ARRL Is!
-----Original Message----- From: Greg Milnes [mailto:w7oz@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:32 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13095] Re: Public Awareness Day EPOE
I worked all weekend long on emergency power. Thats all I had in the RV parked in rural Eastern Washington for the Salmon Run Contest (Washington State QSO Party). A few stations said they were participating in the EPOE event. I suppose I should have said that in more of my QSOs but I didnt. I was too busy trying to gin up contacts. We were operating from the side of the road and right on top of the county line (border between two sparsely populate counties). By running signals from the county line we got twice as many points and lots of folks seemed to like getting two counties for the price of one! Unfortunately our SB-220 sometimes caused the air conditioner to cycle on and off and on and off. We also had to disconnect the RV speakers which were affected by the RF. The three of us from Oregon had a good time though. The total round trip from the Portland area was 755 miles (at 8 mpg plus 25 hours of 7 KW generator time, it wasnt cheap). 73/Greg W7OZ
---------- From: Bruce Frahm KØBJ [mailto:bfrahm@st-tel.net] Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:01 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13084] Re: Public Awareness Day EPOE
Coy, K0FJ and I were gonna do it, but he tuned around at 9AM and had a similar experience to yours so we didn't run and get the generator. However when I worked W6C they staed they'd logged quite a few emerg. power stations, and we hrd W1AW comment that half their Qs today were emerg. powered ones.
(Karlyn and I had a cultural afternoon -- there was a "Mud Bog" being run in trench silos only 3 miles from our QTH. nwKS has an interest group. The wimpier trucks compete for distance, and the larger classes can usually complete the course so it's a timed event for them. We have a hard time keeping him out of puddles with his trike when it rains, so I KNEW he'd enjoy the afternoon)
Bruce