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08.17.08
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First Field Day Experience

Here’s a very nice eHam.net article from Eric N2RRA. JB invited him to take part in Field Day with QSY at Bowdoin Park – Eric had never done FD and didn’t know any QSY members, but brought a complete station, 3 element beam, and a boatload of enthusiasm and competitiveness to help make it a great event. Thanks Eric and come back often!

08.14.08
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QSY Society activates Esopus Meadows Lighthouse during National Lighthouse-Lightship Week, on August 9, 2008

We primarily operated an Icom 746, using an ocf dipole for 10-80 meters, set up by JB and Fred. No pileups but we had fun nevertheless.
It was a beautiful day with cool breezes off the river, and we all had a great time, whether we operated or not.
A special thank you to Scenic Hudson for suggesting their park, to the Clearwater for allowing us use of the porch, facilities and electric, and to Save Esopus Lighthouse Commission for their ongoing work on restoring the lighthouse.
Please click on the title link to visit our photo album!

ARLHS CONTEST AND ABBREVIATED EVENT LOG
STATION: K2QS, National Lighthouse/Lightship week
QTH: Esopus Meadows Preserve, activating the Esopus Meadows Lighthouse #USA 276
DATE: Saturday 8/9/08
OPS: N2SKP, N2QZ, WA2JTX, KC2BNX, KC2QFR, WA2WMJ, N2LTV, Leslie
BANDS/MODES: all contacts were 20M SSB except as noted.
ALSO IN ATTENDANCE: WB2UWU, Lilli, Meg, Tori, Jude, Sue, Joanne, KC2QFS, KC2BNW, KC2IJE, K2JIM

CONTACTS:
VO2A, Paul Island, Labrador, IOTA NA 205 (DXpedition)
MW0OPS/MM, member 513, LH# ENG 118, Round Island Light, Isles of Scilly, England
N1QRL(?), LH# USA 442, Little River Lighthouse, Cutler ME
AA1KS, member #1058, LH# USA 459, Lubec Channel Light, Moose Island, Maine, Op: Rick
KC8IDS, MI
N1EZZ, OH
VA6FUN, member #1445, Alberta, Canada
KB3ITJ, PA, Op: Jerry
OM8A, Slovak Rep, serial #316 Worked all Europe contest (20m CW)
DL1A, Germany, serial #719 Worked all Europe contest (20m CW)
N4BFD, NC, Op: Jesse (20m SB, PSK 31)
N4GM, member # 1439, LH# USA 558, Oak Island Lighthouse, NC (20m SB, PSK 31)

07.31.08
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QSY Member is part of the Project Blue Horizon record-breaking team


A team of ‘early career engineers’ at Lockheed Martin who are also pursuing graduate degrees at Cornell University has broken the world amateur high altitude balloon record in a “near space” flight that exceeded 125,000 feet.

QSY’s John Ceccherelli N2XE emailed me: Yep, I’m the advisor/mentor/subcontractor for the project. We broke the altitude record and next year we’re shooting to cross the atlantic.

We flew some flights with HF and I made the students use CW (we used my DSW-20 and a MFJ morse decoder for command and control)

I want to make a meeting and tell you all about it if my schedule will ever ease up.

XE fans can read more, with photos at http://tinyurl.com/6xlfa6