Friday Night Set Up - K4LRG Field Day 2005

The Loudoun Amateur Radio Group
Operating From Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, Loudoun County, Virginia
K4LRG's Field Day 2005
The Friday Night Set Up

Friday Night Set Up Was A Great Success And By The Looks Of Ole' Sol, We Knew The Coming Operation Would Be Equally Great
The 20M CW Station's Yagi Goes Together *(L-R) Kurt Reber - KI4FWB, Tom Garasic - NA4MA, Bill Frisbie - W3EMH, Mark Johnson - W3ZI, Gary Quinn - NC4S and John Unger - W4AU*

Friday Night Set Up is all about antennas. Do you have all the parts? Where should they go? Can we put them up safely? Do we have enough folks to get this all done? Are they going to work?

Things don't always go as planned but things get done. Someone always has an extra of this or that. Or, we can get an inbound operator to divert to someone's home and pick up the missing stuff.

By sunset, all is well. The five HF stations have nice antennas. The three VHF / UHF antennas rest above the 20M CW Station's yagi and the APRS Digirepeater system is operating. And, we had time to take a break at 6 PM for Charlie's Friday Night Spread.

All ready go on Friday night. Photograph by Norm Styer - AI2C de Clarkes Gap, VA.

The LARG Mobile Antenna System

This is really 6-bands: 20, 15, 10, 6, 2 Meters Plus 432 MHz

The Tri-Bander Plus 6, 2 and 432 Antennas on Mobilt Tower. Photograph by Norm Styer - AI2C de Clarkes Gap, VA.

Can You Count All Of Them ?

The 20M Fone Station's 2-element yagi. Photograph by Norm Styer - AI2C de Clarkes Gap, VA.

Another crew of six put the 20M Fone Station's Antenna In The Air

Antenna de John Unger - W4AU, Ladder de Merc Skaggs - N4TGA, and Ropes/stakes de Norm Styer - AI2C
We did have to retune this one since John had it set for Charlie Whiskey

Early Saturday Morning Station Check Out. Photograph by Norm Styer - AI2C de Clarkes Gap, VA.

Early on Saturday morning, the VHF-UHF, 20M CW and 40M Station Captains Do A final Check

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