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Fly Fishing trip to McHenry, MD in May 2009
| These are photos from our recent fly-fishing trip to McHenry in the western part of Maryland near the West Virginia border. We had an excellent guide from Sang Run Outfitters, our friend Danny Teets. It was a very successful and fun trip. We caught a lot of fish. These photos are the "Trout-of-the-trip" fish. My wife, Ann, caught an 18 inch Rainbow and I caught a 19 inch Brown. They were caught on the North branch of the Potomac River. As usual, my wife caught more fish than I did. She is an excellent fly-caster with a delicate touch. |
Amateur Radio Station W2NRA as of
January 2009
| My station includes a Yaesu FT-2000D with DMU-2000 Data Management Unit and 3 RF micro-Tune Units, Ameritron AL-800 amplifier, a Ten-Tec Model 238B tuner, Custom serial port Computer Interface consisting of 2 modified Opto-Kits http://w2nra.com/Opto-Kit.html (for SO2V FSK RTTY, all other digital modes and DVK SSB) and a Serial WinKey keyer for CW. The computer is a 3 year old home brew with an AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Processor, 4 Gig of RAM (best computer I've ever owned). Antennas are a 17 year old Mosley TA-53M for 6m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 17m, & 20m, an Alpha-Delta DX-A Twin Sloper for 30m & 160m and a Buckmaster OCF Dipole for 40m & 80m. |
Amateur Radio Station W2NRA as of
August 2008
| My station includes a new Yaesu FT-2000D, Ameritron AL-800 amplifier, a Ten-Tec Model 238B tuner, a microHAM microKEYER II Interface (for WinKey CW, SO2V Digital modes and DVK SSB). The computer is a 3 year old home brew with an AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Processor, 2 Gig of RAM, 3 high speed Western Digital Raptor hard drives (best computer I've ever owned). Antennas are a 17 year old Mosley TA-53M for 6m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 17m, & 20m, an Alpha-Delta DX-A Twin Sloper for 30m & 160m and a Buckmaster OCF Dipole for 40m & 80m. |
Ham IV Rotor on homemade support plate
| These photos show my refurbished Create Rooftop Tower. This month (July 2008) I made a new rotor support from angle aluminum, installed a new rotor and rotor cable, replaced the guy wires with Phillystran HPTG21001 (2100 lbs. breaking strength) and Phillystran Guy Grips hardware (These work very effectively like Chinese finger cuffs and are easy to install) and installed a new coax feedline. This 17 year old antenna is performing like new. |
| My station with my Ten-Tec Omni VII, Ameritron AL-800 amplifier, a Ten-Tec Model 238B tuner, a G3LIV Isoterm Multicon FSK Interface (for Digital modes and DVK SSB) and a WinKey serial keyer for CW. That's Maxie, my 12 year old (almost) Hahns Macaw sitting on my shoulder. |
Links
to:
DXLab Suite Software
DX Atlas Software
N1MM Logger Contest Software
Ten-Tec Transceivers
WinKey Keyers
Yaesu Transceivers
A couple of Harley Davidson's I've owned
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