The high point of our monthly get-togethers is Barney's world famous lunches! Clockwise from left front, Jay KØETC, Tom N2UHC, Judy WØJMS, Jim WØEB and Jim KE5BEI.

Rowena and Rex KC5UVN getting ready for lunch.

Here is Jim KE5BEI's brand new MFJ 9040 CW transceiver. All Jim needs is an antenna and he will be QRV on 40 meters.

Here is an internal view of KE5BEI's MFJ rig.

Jim WØEB make up this custom case to transport his K2 station, including the PAC-12 antenna. That large coil in the lid is Jim's homebrew 80 meter loading coil.

Some of Jim WØEB's portable antenna goodies. In the foreground is a 300 Ohm feedline and center insulator, the red reel in the background is a RG-174 coax feedline and the white cylinder is a 1:1 current balun.

 

After lunch, we adjourned to the Seneca city park for some on-the-air fun. Today, the propagation conditions were not very good due to a solar CME. We tried calling several historic vessels on 20 meters during the Museum Ship special event operation, but we were not able to make contact.

Rex KC5UVN's White Mountain SSB transceiver with digital frequency readout and an internal NiMH battery pack. Rex recently added the vernier tuning dial.

Rex KC5UVN at the city park with his FT-817 "shack-in-a-box".

Here's Rex's loop antenna that he used to work a local ham 2 blocks away on 40 SSB.

Jim WØEB is tweeking his PAC-12 antenna on 80 meters. That new homebrew coil loaded great with 1:1 SWR right on 3560 and 2:1 bandwidth of 100 KHz.

Here is WØEB portable on 30 meters CW. The laptop is connected to the K2 I/O port for computerized logging.