LA8W – LN8W

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Total height 100m (330ft)
Total weight 39,000kg (80,000lbs)
Antennas 1.8Mhz 3-el & 3.5Mhz 5-el yagis
Boom lengths 71m (215ft) & 60m (200ft) Read more…

Uploaded a few pictures from this weekend’s antennae work. We didn’t get everything up again but a lot of work was done. Next time we will need a crane. A lift is not stable enough at 30 meters.

Have a look in the “Antenna work June 2010” gallery.

LB1GB, LA9VDA, LA8XRA

The 4 verticals for the 40 4-square is now up. It still needs radials and much tuning before we can use it, but it looks very promising.

When comparing pictures of the new and old system, you will see that the base for the new 4-square verticals is more robust than the old. Built to endure Norwegian winter storms! More pictures can be found in the low band antennas gallery.

We currently have 2 projects going and both of them are soon finished. They still have to be taken down and erected every year, but now they have a more robust construction to withstand many winters to come, hopefully.  See more pictures in the gallery.

Update 4. Feb. 2008: Inverted L. up again. Lets hope it stays that way a few years.

Update 1. Feb. 2008: Inverted L. on 160 was totalled in the lastest storm “Tuva”. So again we are QRT on 160M.

Update: The 40M 4-square gave in as well. We now have to rely on the less effective 2EL shorty forty beam for the rest of the season.

Due to heavy icing, our 160M inverted L broke today. The top 1 meter or so snapped because of the worst case of icing for over a decade on this QTH. Our host Peter LA7SL is doing the best he can to prevent damages to our antennas, but icing 20 meters up is hard to handle.

The CQ Serenade…. dah di dah dit….dah dah di dah

Many of you, including me, have heard this serenade before. Anyway, here it is again!

English version: The words and music of the CQ Serenade was written by VE2QS and VE2BR. The music was played by VE2QS and his Orchestra in 1951. The vocalist was Joyce Hahn.

French version: The Amateur Radio song words and music by the late Maurice Durieux VE2QS and F9KT; Played by VE2QS and his Orchestra. Sung in French by Raymond Girerd – French version

Please contact us if any of this information is false!

45 record image from: http://www.geocities.com/w8jyz/VE2QS.pdf

Fant denne på K9JYs blog: Reversible Beverage Array by OH2BEN

Seventeen pages of how to build beverages — using the KISS method. Tom, OH2BEN, notes:

Because I am not an engineer or technically oriented person, this is also a learning process for me. I am good to solder PL259’s, but all electronic stuff is beyond my understanding. But I am learning. And I can assure you, that it takes a lot of time to understand all technical nuances and there are still a lot of things what I cannot understand. Therefore all notes are just how I understand it and in a KISS way. And therefore you cannot expect to see some nice or new ideas

Den kom også i ARRL Rate Sheet:

Tom OH2BEN has written a short article OH2BEN Reversible Beverage Array -20-10-2007
about his Reversible Beverage array project. His array consists of 3
reversible Beverages that can be switched to receive in 6 directions.

We’re on LiveScores

CQ WW DX Contest CW 2007
November 24 – November 25
Saturday 0000 – Sunday 2400

Callsign: LN8W
Station: LA8W

Here is the LN8W roster for the CQ WW CW 2007:
LB1GB LB8IB LA7MFA LA8AJA LA9VDA

Call: LN8W
Operator(s): LB1GB LB8IB LA8AJA LA9VDA LA7MFA
Station: LA8W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Rakkestad
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  737    18       78
   80: 1014    26      107
   40:  806    37      140
   20: 1110    37      134
   15:  177    28      122
   10:   44    10       37
------------------------------
Total: 3888   156      618  Total Score = 4,801,122

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

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Call: LB8IB
Operator(s): LB8IB
Station: LA8W

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: RAKKESTAD
Operating Time (hrs): 45
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   State/Prov  DX   Zones
------------------------------------------
   80:  512  1049       4       53    11
   40:  589  1245       4       74    21
   20:  641  1570      45       77    24
   15:   81   175       0       38    11
   10:   10    21       0        6     3
------------------------------------------
Total: 1833  4060      53      248    70  Total Score = 1,506,260

Club: LACC

Comments:

Terrible propagation most of the weekend but I had a great time anyway
My SO2R skills are still improving and I pushed the second radio very hard this
time

Thanks to Peter, LA7SL we just managed to finish the 4-square for 40 in time
for the contest and it sure did help. It nearly equalled the 20 meter score!!!

Everything worked flawlessy except for some ghosts showing up in the shack the
last couple of hours. Maybe I should have slept more.........

73 de Olaf
LB8IB @ LA8W
la8w.com