2005 Picnic

A regional meeting/picnic for the Yankee Clipper Contest Club was held onAugust 27, 2005 at the station of Dave Robbins, K1TTT in Peru, Massachusetts. The picnic started a little before the scheduled noon start. A brief business meeting began at approximately 1:00 p.m. to vote on several new member applications.

Tom Wagner, N1MM, was on hand to demonstrate the N1MM Contest Logger. Dave continues as an active member of the N1MM Contest Logger Software development team. His multi-multi station uses this software for all major contests. Tom gave an overview of the software operation and then demonstrated it operation in the Ohio QSO Party. Several of the group gave the software a test drive.

Tours of towers and antennas were conducted. These included discussions of construction techniques, grounding, stack design and switching. There were also demos of tower tools, how to install deadends, and other tower stuff.

Dave’s new deck is a great place to hold a cookout and view the extensive antenna farm. There were plenty of burgers and hot dogs from the grill and lots of other good food.

Our goal to attract new members was very successful. Six completed applications for membership were received and all voted into membership. The new members are: W2RU, Bud Hippisley; KA2WIN, Linda Hippisley; W3UA (RA3AA), Gene Shablygin; W1BNC, Mike Keller; N1MGO, Gordon LaPoint; and RX9UL (KC2OOV), Oxana Sinyakova. Completed application and dues will be forwarded to the secretary and treasurer.

This was the largest crowd ever to visit the recently established Berkshire Insulator Gallery.

We were pleased to have YCCC Vice President, Brian Lambert, N1IK in attendance. There were twenty-nine YCCC members attending, including our new members.

Tom Homewood

Western Mass. Section Manager

Pictures: (Note that all pictures have been forced to 240x320 on this page for easy viewing and labeling. Most of them have higher resolution available if you save them on your computer and view from there.)

N1MM in charge of grill