Station for Satellite Communications at K4LRG Field Day 2006

The Loudoun Amateur Radio Group
de Loudoun County, Northern Virginia
K 4 L R G - 5A VA
Satellite Communications

2006 LARG - K4LRG ARRL Field Day - July 2006. Photograph by Norm Styer - AI2C de Clarkes Gap, Virginia.

Tom Dawson - WB3AKD

Captain, SATCOM Station

Tom Dawson arrived late on Saturday morning with a very impressive big rig equipped to work the world on Amateur Communication Satellites. His shelters proved very useful for the weather we were about to encounter. The two S-141 shelters provide both good operating positions and over-night quarters. A 10-KW gasoline generator on the F-350 powered everything including the air conditioning units.

2006 LARG - K4LRG ARRL Field Day - July 2006. Photograph by Norm Styer - AI2C de Clarkes Gap, Virginia.

The SATCOM System By Tom Dawson - WB3AKD de Round Hill

2-Meter & 440 MHz Antennas

Were remotely controlled in both azimuth and elevation

2006 LARG - K4LRG ARRL Field Day - July 2006. Photograph by Norm Styer - AI2C de Clarkes Gap, Virginia.

Just Firin' It Up After The Storm Blew Over!!!

Tom Dawson - WB3AKD, Chester Kmak - WA9LAZ and Glenn Baumgartner, K0ESA de AMRAD

A Rainy Saturday Afternoon

Tom Tunes The Downlink Receiver As He Calls For A Contact

The computer tracking program shows we are well into this satellite coverage.

Tom reported that some technical cliches in the prediction program prevented
optimum pointing and timing and thus we were out gunned this year.
Maybe next year we'll get those extra 100 points.

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