The Loudoun Amateur Radio Group's K4LRG
Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, Loudoun County, Virginia

Station #5 20 Meter CW

Station # 5 - Twenty CW
With Tom Garasic - NA4MA and Gary Quinn - NC4S

        Gary Quinn - NC4S of Lovettsville, VA was Captain of Station #5 and it was operated full period on 20-Meters CW. The radio was an Icom 745 HF Transceiver running off of 12 volt group 27 type batteries. One of the batteries used to power station 5 was charged from a solar panel. It was changed twice during the operation period to keep the power source fresh. The log and operation was on a IBM Think Pad Computer.
        The antenna used was W4AU - John Unger's two element tri-band beam located on top of a tilt up crank up tower at 40 feet. The tower is LARG's newest asset which is a tow able, tilt up, and crank over Rohn Tower. The club just spent time and resources to fix the damage that was done to the tower from a falling tree branch and aging from sitting outside for 30 to 40 years. We think the tower was built in the 1950’s and was never put in use. The guy anchors and guy wire attached to the tower trailer was never taken off of the trailer before. We knew this since the shipping bands holding the guy wire and the guy anchors to the trailer were never cut or removed.
        Station 5 logged around 570 QSO’s; details to follow. Several good CW operators manned this station including: Gary Quinn - NC4S, Paul Dluehosh - N4PD, Tom Garasic - NA4MA, Norm Styer - AI2C, and Bill Frisbie - W3EMH.