“Pi” Pugh, K1RV, writes in K1USN Happenings, June 3, 2025:
This upcoming Friday, Saturday & Sunday we will be operating at the Bare Cove Fire Museum in Hingham on 45 Bare Cove Park Drive! This invitation is being set to help us better prepare for our June 7/8 Museum Ships weekend setup operation.
Hopefully we will have a good turnout for this Thursday’s work party as we put our heads together to figure out the station and antenna configuration, etc.
BTW, there will be no meeting this Saturday @ the Tufts Library due to our Museum Ships special event operation @ the Bare Cove Fire Museum! Please plan to drop by the BCFM to visit, operate, drink coffee, etc.
We are planning a work party this Thursday beginning at 3 PM to setup the three HF operating stations as well as the VHF talk-in station which will be on 145.39(W1ATD, Marshfield) & 146.535 (simplex).
On Friday we expect to continue setting up antennas, etc in preparation for the 8 PM EDT (0000 UTC) start of MSW 2025.
There will be three HF stations (SSB, CW, FT8) available during our hours of operation this weekend.
Fri 8 PM – 11 PM
Sat 8 AM – 8 PM
Sun 8 AM – 4 PM
There will also be our VHF talk-in station available and needing operators. See Bob – WA1Q (wa1qbob@gmail.com) for schedule needs.
We will be running the three HF radios @ 100 watts simultaneously and using band-pass filters to minimize inter-station interference. Since this will be or first time operating from this location, I’m sure that we will need to do some tweaking to minimize interference since there will be two vertical and two horizontal antennas to switch between, etc.
The stations will be setup as follows:
Station 1 IC-7610 SSB
Station 2 IC-7300 FT4/8
Station 3 Elecraft K4D CW
BTW, I’m looking for a “volunteer” to handle our HF station operator scheduling. If you are willing, please step forward ASAP so that we can get the ball rolling.
You will need to be able to receive text messages and/or emails from prospective operators and build a simple listing consisting of one or two hour operator slots for each station throughout the weekend. Please text me (617-827-5492) if you’d like to handle this important scheduling task ASAP so that we can start the ball rolling!
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