Transcript W4RM M2 Station - Potomac Valley Radio Club

W4RM M2 Station
Bill O’Mara W4RM
Jack O’Mara W4NF
Overview
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W4RM Station (Tower and Stations)
Planed Future Station Enhancements
Last Years Contest Results
2004 -2005 Contest Operating Plans
W4RM Station Location and Tower
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The W4RM M2 Station is built on 10 acres in
Nokesville, Va. (35 Miles SW of DC) and 1 air
mile north Quantico Marine base on the west side
of I95.
Currently, the Station has a single 110ft Rohn
55G tower using Phillystrain guy wires located
500ft from the house.
Antennas and placement:
• 125 ft 7ele 6M Force12 Beam
• 119ft 70ft 80M Force12 rotatable dipole with relay
switching for CW and SSB
• 112ft 3ele 40M (MAG340N) Force12 Beam
• 104ft C31XR Tribander on a 1032D Tic-Ring rotor
• 72ft C31XR Tribander on a 1022D Tic-Ring Rotor
• 40ft C31XR Tribander fix mounted on EU
W4RM Station Tower and antennas
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The C31XRs are connect to an Array Solutions
Stack Match for stacking control
• Second Feed Line Option allows split of stack
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All Antennas are feed at the bottom of the tower
into an Array Solutions Six Pack antenna
controller
160M antenna is a single wire inverted L (80ft
vertical) with 32 ground radials and 6000ft of
wire
160M receive: A single 580ft NE beverage
Top rotor is an M2 Orion RC-2800P
The tower is connect to the shack by 2- 500ft
7/8” hardline runs and one ½” 500 ft hardline run
K7SV and W4NF
40M, 80M, 6M
Two Stack of C31XRs
W4RM Tower
W4RM Stations
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The M2 Shack is designed with Two Run
stations, One Multiplier Station, one
Master computer station
• The two run stations are identical and consist
of the following equipment
 Yaesu FT-1000MP
 Alpha 99 Amplifier
 Pentium Computer running Writelog
 Six Pack antenna controller
 MFJ-434 DVK
 Top Ten Band Decoder
 Dunestar 600 Band Pass Filter
 2 CW paddles (right and left side)
 LogiKey Keyer
 Heil Proset
W4RM Stations
• The Mulipler station consists of the following equipment
 Yaesu FT-920
 Alpha 374A Amplifier
 Pentium Computer running Writelog
 Single ½” hardline run to crank-up tower (AB 577)
with Force12 C4E
 Top Ten Band Decoder
 ICE Band Pass Filter
 CW paddle, Heil Proset
• The Master Computer is feed by a Comcast highspeed
cable modem, router and 8 port switch
 This master computer runs VE7CC and connects to
K4JA packcluster, filters and feeds all three stations
 This Master Computer also runs Writelog and acts as
the master control point for monitoring band
conditions for band changes and monitoring for new
multipliers
Three Stations for M2
W4RM M2 Station
Run Station #1
Multiplier Station
Run Station #2
Master Computer
Planed Future Station Enhancements
Add third ring rotor to 40ft C31XR
Add Second tower (Spring/Summer 2005)
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100ft Rohn
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On Mast - WARC-7 (12,17,30M) Force12 Beam
115ft
Two Stack of 15M OWA 6ele 36 foot boom Beams
@92 and 67ft fixed on EU
Add second and third 160M Inverted L’s to the
Triangular array (first one complete)
Add 4 four additional 580ft beverages and
switching
Shack Changes
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Change out 17” monitors with 19” flat panel monitors
mounted on adjustable arms
Add roofing filters to FT-1000MP’s
Last Years Contest Results
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First full year of contest operation from
W4RM
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Operated:
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Four M2
• (CQWW SSB, ARRL RTTY RU, ARRL DX CW, ARRL
DX SSB)
One Multi Op (Nov SS CW)
One SOA, W4NF (Nov SS SSB)
W4RM – Operators
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W4NF, W4RM, K5OF, K1SE, K4VV, AC5RR,
W7IY, K5VG, W4DC, WA4TK, KA4RRU,
W4DAV, KE4BUS, N8CIA, KG4HTL
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Bold Calls are new PVRC Members
Last Years Contest Results
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So, how did we do?
• All contests combined from Oct 2003 to May
2004 we work over 17,000 QSO !!!!
• Worked 5 Band DXCC
• Five band worked all Continents
• Worked 90 Countries on 160M
• Worked WAS on CW
• Worked WAS on SSB
• And had a lot of FUN!!!!!
Last Years Contest Results
W4RM for 2003 - 2004 Contest Season
Contest
Class Place
Standing/logs submitted
CQ WW SSB M2
5th NA
Top Five in NA
K4JA, N3RS, K1KI, N2NT, W4RM
ARRL CW SS
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Score
7.6M
15th NA, 1st VA, 1st Roanoke 87/1240 152K
Only contest outside of the top ten
ARRL SSB SS U
4th NA, 1st VA, 1st Roanoke
27/1582
Top Five in NA
KP2A, K6LL, K7RL, W4NF @ W4RM
244,800 Points 1530 Qs and 80 Sections
245K
Last Years Contest Results
W4RM for 2003 - 2004 Contest Season
Contest
Class Place
Standing/logs submitted
ARRL RU
MS
2nd NA, 1st VA, 1st Roanoke 5/892
(New Div Roanoke record)
Top Five in Contest
KI1G, AA5AU, K9NS,W1ZT, W4RM
Score
160K
ARRL DX CW
6.67M
M2
6th NA
28/2683
Top Ten in NA
K4JA, K1KI, N3RS, K8AZ, N4RV, W4RM
ARRL DX SSB M2
3rd NA
Top Five in NA
K4JA, N3RS, W4RM
40/2267
3.7M
W4RM vs. K4JA ARRL DX SSB
March 2004
Call
Score
Qs
Mults
160 Meters 80 Meters 40 Meters 20 Meters 15 Meters 10 Meters Error Rate
K4JA
8.2 M
4952
555
66/47
471/86
770/102
1731/131
1762/131
152/58
W4RM
3.7 M
2994
412
34/29
258/61
341/78
1248/97
1027/109
86/38
0.70%
2004 -2005 Contest Operating Plans
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The W4RM Contest Team plans to
operate the following contests this
contest season:
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CQWW SSB (M2)
ARRL CW SS (Multi-op)
ARRL SSB SS (SOHP W4NF)
ARRL DX 160M (SO or Multi?)
ARRL 10M (Limited effort)
ARRL RTTY RU (Multi)
ARRL DX CW (M2)
ARRL DX SSB (from the Islands, VP2V?)
WPX SSB (WM4RM) M2