AITP update 8/5/14

The "official" site for the event is here, for your reference. There will be a 'talk-in' set up on the VHF .670 and the UHF .525 repeaters for those of you struggling to find the park.

KD0KJI (Al) visited the Turtle Lake Park today and pronounced it to be "really nice". There are oaks for dipoles and a well-built pavillion, and lots of parking.

The plans for the .425 gang are taking shape. We will have a screened-in canopy for shelter, and to make it easier to find us in the crowd. The 1.25M repeater is not likely to happen, but N0YNT (Matt) is making plans to do a demonstration on tuning a duplexer. It seems as if Matt is working on putting up another GMRS repeater on Moos Tower on the East Bank campus, and the duplexer tuning will be for that project. The procedure is the same, regardless of the band, so make it a point to soak up some knowledge from Matt while you're there. KD0UIH (Chuck) is slated to operate an HF PSK31 station, so if you've ever wondered how to set something like that up and how PSK works, you can find that out Saturday. KD0KJI, KD0ZWN, and N0RUA will be operating portable HF stations, so if you're a Tech (like me), it's your chance to plumb the mysteries of SSB and operate outside of your licence Class (under supervision, of course). I'll be running the FM end of things. Here's the "sked":

• FM repeaters from 12:00 to 1 PM ( UHF: 444.425, 444.750, 444.375 VHF: 145.290, 145.450, 146.850) 
• 1.25M FM on  the 223.940 repeater from 1:15 PM to 1:45 PM 
• 1.25M FM simplex on 223.500 from 1:45 PM to 2 PM 
• GMRS FM on the 462.650+ (PL 141.3) repeater from 2:15 PM to 2:30 PM 

Bear in mind that there will be a lot going on in the immediate vicinity, so I might not come back to your first call. I'll always have an HT on 145.290 if you want to reach me and set up something on the spur of the moment. I can also pass along "requests" to the others in the group working HF.

With so many stations, interference could be an issue.

Got an idea for a demo? Hey, why not? Let me or Matt know and we'll work things out.

Come down to the park, or play along at home. This sounds like it's going to be the biggest AITP yet! 

EDIT: N0YNT (Matt) has decided that the logistics of the duplexer tuning were impractical, so that demonstration has been cancelled.