Amateur Radio Station K4JTN

On February 19th and 21st my club sponsored a demo of ham radio at the Heathsville Va YMCA from 5pm-7pm each night we did psk31 on 40meters and 80meter SSB we made one contact into Antarctic on Tuesday evening had lots of fun both nights hoping we planted seeds to maybe get more people interested into the club.

New Desk for the Radio's built by Ed KN3E this makes all the difference while operating!!

I finally got around to installing the power poles on the phoenix 16 channel radio i bought recently for studio B in the house looks good and receives great  the radio seems to be getting out well on transmit to !!

Well with the change of my internet provider I now have full access to my whole house network which allowed me to download a piece of software on all my computers which allows me to access all my computers on my network from the internet and actually control the computer remotely . What I ended up doing was accessing my ham station from the other end of the house and actually do some ham radio contacts from my recliner at the other end of the house . The only thing I can't do is tune the radio or cut it on and off but everything else I can do what a neat plan watch tv and work ham radio digital of course at the same time

On August 4th with the trailer loaded with what was needed I set off for New Point Comfort Lighthouse in Matthews County Va!!. I had planned a radio activation of the lighthouse an with me were Dan W4DPL, Scott AE4TC and Charles KK4AIO. We got there by 8:30am got everything setup and was opearting by 9:30am and we worked stations until 3pm. We had issues to arise the tide came in so the water levels under vehicles got a little high which made things a little tricky we had to move the generator a few times to keep it out of the water !!!. It was a muggy day but the sun was not out in full force so the fans in the trailer made it bearable we operated 20meter psk31 ,20 meter SSB ,30 meter psk31 and were not to successful on 15 and 40 but had a blast and we made over 50 contacts during the event !! All qsl's will be uploaded to eqsl and lotw to cut back on the postage costs had a great time but forgot to take pictures and to install the matching element on the 15 meter beam so that ant...

After years of working on it I finally got my Worked All States Award from EQSL its great to get that finished i've almost got the same award for 30 meters only!! For those not aware the award is for those amateur radio operators that have worked at least one station in all 50 states of the USA.

This is the bottom section of the antenna and it had some rusted out bolts and when i tried to install the so239 connector kit the bolt for the center conductor broke off !! Well that threw a big monkey wrench into this project i had to order a whole new bottom section for the antenna because i couldn't do a new tap for the screw do to the length of the pipe . I went to DX engineering and ordered the dang section while there also ordered the tilt base unit so it will be easy to raise and lower the unit so what you see here will all brand new in a few days after doing this i will basically have a brand new Hustler BTV-4 which is a good thing with the parts i've had to order for this project i could have bought a new BTV!! Oh well live in learn but this should work great when done