MSWE 2021 -- Heads Up

[Rastus]

Museum Ships Weekend 2021 starts Friday evening 04-JUN-21.  Go to the website for updated timer....of course.

https://www.nj2bb.org/museum/

[alfsauve]

I do have a 20m vertical up (actually a ham stick on my little tower).  I'll try to get in on this one.

Did you make contact with Last Man Standing?

[Rastus]

No. 

Dadgummit.

I would like to build a 3 element 20M Moxon for MSWE.   

[Rastus]

I do have a 20m vertical up (actually a ham stick on my little tower).  I'll try to get in on this one.
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I need to put up the Hustler 5BTV vertical that's been lounging away in a box for the last 3 years.  It's good for 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meter bands.  I also need to find some wire antennas someone besides me misplaced at home or I'll need to rebuild them.  I like to have several dipoles up because of the directionality it will give me a little gain in the direction of the lobes.  Picking up a couple of S units really helps break through the pile ups.  I do have up my 20M loop in Arkansas now with the strongest part of the field pointing to North Carolina though locations in Florida to New York are really strong contacts too.

By the way...only 8 weeks to prepare now.  20 Meter should be popping in the morning.  I make good morning contacts with the east coast on 20 M so that's the area I'll work first. 

So far 50 ships are on the list with 13 maybes.  The Wuhan Lab Flu is the reason for the low count and I expect that excuse to wane a lot over the next 8 weeks so I think it's a cinch we'll have at least 75 ships.  That and there are always a dozen or so that list the last few days. 

P.S. - A contract to decommission the reactor on the NSS Savanah (The US's first nuclear transport ship) was just awarded so after this it may be years before you can contact it again during the decommissioning process or at all if it is scrapped after the reactor removal.

[Rastus]

57 ships listed as participants with 12 maybe will participate.  I suspect that others will come in at the last minute as they always seem to do.

One of the participants is operating only on June 1 which is before the usual start date.  Several others will only participated one of the two days on the air.

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[PegLeg45]

From FB:

USS ALABAMA Battleship Memorial Park

Celebrating Historic Preservation Month:
The Deep South Amateur Radio Club has spent this spring restoring Main Communication aboard the USS ALABAMA.  This group of dedicated ham radio operators have chipped and painted the compartment, restored antenna, and worked to get the ship's radios operational. 
The club will broadcast live from Main Communication during the Museum Ships Broadcast beginning on Friday, June 6, at 5:00 p.m., and continuing until Sunday, June 6, 5:00 p.m.  This is the historic naval fleet's annual continuous 48 hour radio broadcast. 
Be sure to tune in! 

Call letters for the USS ALABAMA are K4DSR and the USS DRUM are K5LDA.
 
Thanks Deep South Amateur Radio Club for your passionate restoration work.

[Rastus]

Wow.  Nice one PegLeg.  Are you going to listen in on shortwave this year?

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

I need to put up the Hustler 5BTV vertical that's been lounging away in a box for the last 3 years.  It's good for 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meter bands.  I also need to find some wire antennas someone besides me misplaced at home or I'll need to rebuild them.  I like to have several dipoles up because of the directionality it will give me a little gain in the direction of the lobes.  Picking up a couple of S units really helps break through the pile ups.  I do have up my 20M loop in Arkansas now with the strongest part of the field pointing to North Carolina though locations in Florida to New York are really strong contacts too.


P.S. - A contract to decommission the reactor on the NSS Savanah (The US's first nuclear transport ship) was just awarded so after this it may be years before you can contact it again during the decommissioning process or at all if it is scrapped after the reactor removal.

I have the Hustler 6BTV also waiting for me to put up. Thinking of adding a G5RV or another dipole in inverted V. My house, unfortunately, is 700Ft above sea level but still in a bit of a valley with hills 200 ft high on almost all sides. I am not sure how well things will work. My stepson has the same antenna but is in a much better location.

This is what I will be adding.

https://www.gigaparts.com/mfj-1778.html?msclkid=d2c086956cc9126f7e12e60fe8ac8c0d&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=*Shopping%20-%20JumpFly&utm_term=4582145989392158&utm_content=MFJ


Thinking about adding radials to the 6BTV but that is a LOT of work digging the trenches. I "HOPE" to have this up and running before winter this year. If so, I will talk to you guys there. de K4JWK

[Rastus]

I have a 5BTV that I bought 3-4 years ago still in the box.  I bought it for MSWE but never had time to put it up.  I'm planning on putting it up this time just like all the previous years. 

You can put the radials on top of the ground for now and then bury them later..which is what I'll do.  200' high sides may be a problem but I think only if the angle is greater than 25-30 degrees to the top...otherwise you should skate on that one.  You may have a higher SWR stringing it up as an inverted V.

Neat presentation:
http://www.bvarc.org/pdf/g5rv_w5rh.pdf

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

You may have a higher SWR stringing it up as an inverted V.

Neat presentation:
http://www.bvarc.org/pdf/g5rv_w5rh.pdf

Actually, the angle is more like 10 or so at most so..... The inverted V was an idea. Do you have any suggestions?