[arrl-odv:33805] Field Day and sharing good news
This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below. As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.) I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below. Hope you all had a great weekend. 73 Art K0AIZ -- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio®
Art, Mazel Tov! Your grandson looks like he’s already curious about the world, and I hope that grandpa can encourage him to get involved in our wonderful pastime. Field Day has been interesting here. My first one with the new whole house battery system, 28.8kWh, 14.4kW inverter (total) and temporarily connected solar panels (6.4kW worth) so my whole house is off grid this weekend. Why not a real test rather than just powering radios? Once the panels are in their final location I should have much better solar production as well. It's so much better than having a noisy petrol generator running all weekend. Of course there is that option for cloudy days. With 100W on the flex it was plenty to spare. I did get out and visited some sites in NJ, and it was interesting to reconnect with old friends. Did some drone footage at Morris radio club in whippany. They sent me a radiogram thanking me for the visit. 73 Ria N2RJ ________________________________ From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> on behalf of Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2022 4:13:44 PM To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:33805] Field Day and sharing good news This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below. As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.) I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below. Hope you all had a great weekend. 73 Art K0AIZ -- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio® [cid:part1.Ciq0KDD8.3RMvU0CM@arrl.org] [cid:part2.moH7k65d.0IYlcXY5@arrl.org]
Congratulations on the new grandson, Art, and FB on the KWM-2. Nice RE with MM1, too! 73,Rick - K5UR -----Original Message----- From: Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org> To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Sent: Sun, Jun 26, 2022 3:13 pm Subject: [arrl-odv:33805] Field Day and sharing good news This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below. As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.) I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below. Hope you all had a great weekend. 73 Art K0AIZ -- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio® _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv
Art, Congratulations on the new subharmonic, as well as successfully completing work on the KWM-2. My first exposure to the KWM-2 was at the Department of State radio club, where an older one no longer suitable for use at overseas embassies was re-purposed. It had the only noise blanker/limiter that I ever experienced that could reduce the “woodpecker” signals from S9+20db down to S5 or S6, which was enough to pull some signals through for QSOs. By comparison, the noise blanker on my new Drake R4C was useless for this purpose, but I still couldn’t afford a KWM-2. 73, Dave K3ZJ From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> on behalf of Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org> Date: Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 4:13 PM To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:33805] Field Day and sharing good news This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below. As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.) I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below. Hope you all had a great weekend. 73 Art K0AIZ -- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio® [cid:part1.Ciq0KDD8.3RMvU0CM@arrl.org] [cid:part2.moH7k65d.0IYlcXY5@arrl.org]
That's fantastic news about the new grandchild, Art! And FB on the Collins KWM-2. I visited nine different club field day sites across two sections this weekend. I had hoped to visit more, but it's hard to tear yourself away when folks want to chat with you about the League or insist that you have a bite to eat or a snack. ;-) There goes my diet! 73, Phil Temples, K9HI On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 4:14 PM Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org> wrote:
This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below.
As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.)
I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below.
Hope you all had a great weekend.
73 Art K0AIZ
-- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio®
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Phil, Thanks. I used visit radio club sites when I was Section Manager. Nebraska is a large state. I'd get up at 2 or so and head west to the furthest site I could get to reasonably and then I'd visit sites on the way back. It was a lot of fun. And it still pays back. I will meet people at hamfests who remark about the visit I made to their site a decade ago. It definitely built good relations for me and for the League. Oh -- food eaten for amateur radio purposes has no calories. 73, Art On 6/26/2022 5:35 PM, Phil Temples wrote:
That's fantastic news about the new grandchild, Art! And FB on the Collins KWM-2.
I visited nine different club field day sites across two sections this weekend. I had hoped to visit more, but it's hard to tear yourself away when folks want to chat with you about the League or insist that you have a bite to eat or a snack. ;-) There goes my diet!
73,
Phil Temples, K9HI
On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 4:14 PM Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org> wrote:
This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below.
As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.)
I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below.
Hope you all had a great weekend.
73 Art K0AIZ
-- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio®
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Congratulations on the new radio op Art. When I was Section Manager of EPA in 2012, I had the same problem of how to visit as many sites as possible. Our section is very large with many clubs. My friend W3JG and I are both pilots but Jim owes a plane nearby well equipped, (he’s got 2 now). So we asked all clubs for their GPS locations in advance and loaded them into a flight plan. The first 20 or so got a flyover and some circling with QSOs from the air on three bands. APRS beacon from the plane on APRS.fi let them know exactly where we where. The QST article on the flight is attached. This last weekend I put 200 miles plus on my vehicle to visit clubs in three states in DE, NJ & PA sections in 2 days. Flying was way more fun, visited lots more sites and only took 6 total flight hours including 2 landings at FD sites during one day. Bob Famiglio, K3RF Vice Director - ARRL Atlantic Division 610-359-7300 Serving NNY, WNY, WPA, EPA, SNJ, DE and MD/DC sections www.QRZ.com/db/K3RF <http://www.QRZ.com/db/K3RF> From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> On Behalf Of Arthur I. Zygielbaum Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2022 6:42 PM To: phil@temples.com; arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org Subject: [arrl-odv:33810] Re: Field Day and sharing good news Phil, Thanks. I used visit radio club sites when I was Section Manager. Nebraska is a large state. I'd get up at 2 or so and head west to the furthest site I could get to reasonably and then I'd visit sites on the way back. It was a lot of fun. And it still pays back. I will meet people at hamfests who remark about the visit I made to their site a decade ago. It definitely built good relations for me and for the League. Oh -- food eaten for amateur radio purposes has no calories. 73, Art On 6/26/2022 5:35 PM, Phil Temples wrote: That's fantastic news about the new grandchild, Art! And FB on the Collins KWM-2. I visited nine different club field day sites across two sections this weekend. I had hoped to visit more, but it's hard to tear yourself away when folks want to chat with you about the League or insist that you have a bite to eat or a snack. ;-) There goes my diet! 73, Phil Temples, K9HI On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 4:14 PM Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org <mailto:k0aiz@arrl.org> > wrote: This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below. As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.) I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below. Hope you all had a great weekend. 73 Art K0AIZ -- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio® _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org <mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv -- Phil Temples <phil@temples.com <mailto:phil@temples.com> > _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org <mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv
Congratulations to Art! He looks to be the destined for that D-104. The San Joaquin Valley SM and I did a similar thing this Field Day, after flying Bob Vallio out to the Central Valley last year. I picked John Litz, NZ6Q up in Modesto in the morning and we flew down to the southern edge of the Section and the Division, visiting sites in Ridgecrest / Inyokern and Tehachapi, and covering about 700 (statute) miles. While most of my operating was in the 108 - 137 MHz band, the club members were thrilled to see us and gave us short driving tours of their small towns as they drove us to and from the airports. Next year I’ll try going north and / or into Nevada. [cid:39D1C50E-E6D1-4E1C-AEC4-C9DF45010ADB] On Jun 27, 2022, at 7:53 AM, Bob Famiglio, K3RF via arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org>> wrote: Congratulations on the new radio op Art. When I was Section Manager of EPA in 2012, I had the same problem of how to visit as many sites as possible. Our section is very large with many clubs. My friend W3JG and I are both pilots but Jim owes a plane nearby well equipped, (he’s got 2 now). So we asked all clubs for their GPS locations in advance and loaded them into a flight plan. The first 20 or so got a flyover and some circling with QSOs from the air on three bands. APRS beacon from the plane on APRS.fi<http://aprs.fi/> let them know exactly where we where. The QST article on the flight is attached. This last weekend I put 200 miles plus on my vehicle to visit clubs in three states in DE, NJ & PA sections in 2 days. Flying was way more fun, visited lots more sites and only took 6 total flight hours including 2 landings at FD sites during one day. Bob Famiglio, K3RF Vice Director - ARRL Atlantic Division 610-359-7300 <image003.png> Serving NNY, WNY, WPA, EPA, SNJ, DE and MD/DC sections www.QRZ.com/db/K3RF<http://www.qrz.com/db/K3RF> From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org>> On Behalf Of Arthur I. Zygielbaum Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2022 6:42 PM To: phil@temples.com<mailto:phil@temples.com>; arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:33810] Re: Field Day and sharing good news Phil, Thanks. I used visit radio club sites when I was Section Manager. Nebraska is a large state. I'd get up at 2 or so and head west to the furthest site I could get to reasonably and then I'd visit sites on the way back. It was a lot of fun. And it still pays back. I will meet people at hamfests who remark about the visit I made to their site a decade ago. It definitely built good relations for me and for the League. Oh -- food eaten for amateur radio purposes has no calories. 73, Art On 6/26/2022 5:35 PM, Phil Temples wrote: That's fantastic news about the new grandchild, Art! And FB on the Collins KWM-2. I visited nine different club field day sites across two sections this weekend. I had hoped to visit more, but it's hard to tear yourself away when folks want to chat with you about the League or insist that you have a bite to eat or a snack. ;-) There goes my diet! 73, Phil Temples, K9HI On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 4:14 PM Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org<mailto:k0aiz@arrl.org>> wrote: This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below. As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.) I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below. Hope you all had a great weekend. 73 Art K0AIZ -- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio® <image001.jpg> <image002.jpg> _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv -- Phil Temples <phil@temples.com<mailto:phil@temples.com>> _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv <Field Day FLyover.pdf>_______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv -Kristen (K6WX) "Your eyes ... it's a day's work just looking into them" Laurie Anderson (--... ...-- -.. . -.- -.... .-- -..-)
Congratulations Art on the subharmonic. Few weeks ago we took our two youngest grandsons (6 & 8) to Theodore Roosevelt National Park where they got to get reasonably close to some wild life, as you can see below. Something you can look forward to. Bill AC0W [A picture containing sky, outdoor, grass, person Description automatically generated] On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 4:14 PM Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org<mailto:k0aiz@arrl.org>> wrote: This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below. As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.) I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below. Hope you all had a great weekend. 73 Art K0AIZ -- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio® [cid:image001.jpg@01D88A0E.F943B950] [cid:image002.jpg@01D88A0E.F943B950] _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv -- Phil Temples <phil@temples.com<mailto:phil@temples.com>>
Phil, Good effort, I know the people appreciate that. This year I managed to visit 10 sites, in three sections and managed just shy of 1400 miles of windshield time over the two days. Last year hit 14 sites with less mileage however, all were closer to home. Looking forward to seeing what I can do next year. Bill Lippert, AC0W From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> On Behalf Of Phil Temples Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2022 5:35 PM To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:33809] Re: Field Day and sharing good news That's fantastic news about the new grandchild, Art! And FB on the Collins KWM-2. I visited nine different club field day sites across two sections this weekend. I had hoped to visit more, but it's hard to tear yourself away when folks want to chat with you about the League or insist that you have a bite to eat or a snack. ;-) There goes my diet! 73, Phil Temples, K9HI
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