FIELD DAY JUNE 26-27 One of our premiere events comes up the end of this month. We’re hoping wheat harvest will move to one end or the other and leave folks clear for the weekend. The current plan is to use Phillips Park. Some setup and camping will occur Friday, but a lot of the setup and arrivals will be Saturday. The flag drops at 1pm CDT and we’ll again operate for 24 hours, allowing the early setup.

A few things are new this year. First Mike K0FJ has WriteLog operating on our laptops. This program is quite similar to CT, but is Windows-based and is easily customized to operator taste. It also uses Ethernet rather than serial ports for networking. Short briefings on use of WriteLog will be held Friday night, and shortly before the start of FD Saturday. Secondly the club has purchased parts for 80 and 40 meter dipoles, including baluns, and we’ll vuild these Friday evening. Finally, ARRL is introducing a Field Day participation pin. The slick design is shown in Up Front in June QST. The club will buy a pin for each person contributing more than 2 hours to the setup, operation or teardown of our FD effort.

We’re also hoping to erect a Rohn 25 tower temporarily for FD. This should increase our flexibility in setting up wire antennas. This will be our first year to have K0BJ’s MFJ Antenna Analyzer available for antenna setup and tuning. Plan on bringing your favorite meat and we’ll have picnic feasts Saturday night and Sunday noon.

NEW K-N OWNERS Congratulations to Trojans Gregg and Kathy Lindberg, who have purchased K-N Communications from Bob Karlin. This is great news for the club as it makes some test equipment available, and there are also some oddball parts on hand that can’t be had at Radio Shack. Best wishes to KB0MBT and N0XNJ in this endeavor!

KC0CVS GONE Shawn, XYL Christie and harmonic are off to Lawrence. Shawn hopes to be back for our Field Day efforts.

SOLAR CAR UPDATE A reminder that the biennial Sunrayce starts June 20. This time we’re bypassed and it goes from Washington DC to EPCOT Center in Orlando. The Kansas State University team placed 5^th at qualifiers, but report that most teams were sandbagging their efforts to keep the competition guessing. Perennial high finishers Univ. of Michigan had a highly publicized $1.5 million effort and failed to qualify at the first trials. The KSU team are all hams and are making use of the Kenwood THD7A packet HTs to telemeter LOTS of data in real time from their solar car.

Colby High School’s TSA students were also in the solar car business this semester and just raced at Topeka, after winning regionals. Their car features two speed (ON or OFF) operation and lots of speed but not much endurance. The race at Topeka was 32 laps on a 2.5 mile course. CHS was lapping other cars by the 3^rd lap and led for 13 laps but only completed 15!

BANDSCAN BT Jon KB0MBS pulled down a TH2500M Milspec 2 meter base radio for graduation. He’s planning to use the rig at his trailer house in Manhattan when he goes off to W0QQQ/KSU this fall. BT Ball State Univ. from Indiana was on the repeater the other day. They are on a 3-week field trip to spot rough wx. The big tornado around Dodge City was th efollowing night, so maybe they hit the jackpot there. They’d already seen 1 twister and some large hail when they were on .82. BT KB0WPY and YFN have put up a new tower at their QTH, and installed a G5RV. They’re enjoying the good HF propagation and have solved some shack RFI problems too. Scott was active in the CQ WPX CW contest, and has now worked enough DX countries for his DXCC! Congratulations Scott. BT N0QGB is the proud owner of a new (to him) TM261A 2m rig. Look for Dick on 22/82 and elsewhere.

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