W4S -- The Pungo Strawberry Festival
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Steve Batton W4XQ
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June 12, 2009
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The Strawberry Report
by Steve Batton W4XQ
 W4S,
a Special Event station from the Pungo Strawberry Festival (in Virginia Beach,
Virginia) was again a success in
its second year of operation Saturday and Sunday, May 23rd and 24th, 2009. This
year we operated in style from the EMCOMM trailer provided by The
Norfolk Area Baptist Association.
You may have seen this fully-equipped beauty at Field Day last year. If not, be
sure to check it out this year! Thanks to Chuck Moseley NS4CM, Pastor of
Oak Grove Baptist Church
for making this happen.
 W4S
again ran a Yaesu FT-900 and a Buckmaster OCF (Off Center-Fed) dipole. The amp we
used this year was a Yaesu FL-2100B, running a pair of 572b's. A new addition was
the satellite station: A Kenwood TS-2000, KenPro Az/El rotor and a Cushcraft AOP-1
antenna array. Don, KC4H made a video of the station in operation and put it up
on YouTube. View the video
here. That's me (Steve, W4XQ) operating;
Ed, KC4UFN logging; and Butch, KE4AZL and Joe, KI4RKB inspecting the coax patch
panel outside the trailer.
 W4S
made over 450 contacts this year. Most were on 14.260MHz. We ran for a brief time
on Saturday morning on 7.260 MHz. but quickly abandoned that frequency to avoid
QRM as various nets started popping up. HF contacts included 36 states and 29 countries.
The satellite station actually only ran one satellite pass. That was late on Sunday
as AO-51 was passing over. We made about ten contacts in that pass. The YouTube
video made by one of the stations we contacted on that pass, KC2UOO, is available
here.
Thanks to VBARC and to all who donated their time, equipment and/or
talents to making this station a success again this year: Chuck NS4CM, Rich N2XQM,
Ed KN4KL, Butch KE4AZL, Ron W8RJL, George WA4GDB, Zach KJ4EZJ, Will KJ4FRI, Joe
KI4RKB, Sim K4SIM.
73,
Steve W4XQ
Editor's note: Please have a look at
all the great pictures from the Pungo W4S operation!
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by YI9TM on June 12, 2009
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Wish I could have helped operate this year! Last year was a blast.
I always enjoy the Strawberry Festival in Pungo, but even more so with an up and running Ham station in it's midst.
Awesome satellite contact video by KC2UOO and good job by KC4H documenting the event with some video of his own!
73,
John
WT4M
YI9TM
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by K4STW on June 12, 2009
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Great event, fun as always
I know I was there (no pic) were was the CLUB photo guy?
Next year is just around the corner
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by KY2P on June 12, 2009
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Nice job as always. I tried to contact y'all, but with my antenna issues y'all didn't hear me. There's always next year!
I'll be vacationing in VaBeach in July
...Captain George's and Jewish Mother here I come!
Damian
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by OLLIEOXEN27 on June 12, 2009
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There is a lot of speculation out there about the end of the world what with the direction we're headed under the Obama administration.
I think the world actually ended when the digital frequency readout was invented. At that point the world was faced with ever complex decisions and how to implement them. First man had to decide the color of the display back lighting. White, amber, Red, Green?
Then those so called geniuses had to decide the tuning rate, 1khz, 100hz, 10hz, 1hz - jeesh!. The there was the fast slew and the slow slew button - they eliminated slow slew (renaming it slew) when none of the hams at Heath could say it seven times straight.
Then US foreign policy was seriously threatened when the United States adapted a 10khz tuning rate in the AM band while the rest of the world chose 9kz. I always sensed and still do to this day that they knew something we didn't. Tensions continue to this day.
The analog dial served all our needs at the time and the distant future. Only the treacherous implementation and the langorous consequences of this poorly planned assault on our ways and our sensibilities can rise to the level of deeming our civilization extinct and our future dubious.
Let history be rewritten.
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by OLLIEOXEN27 on June 12, 2009
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The above taken from a speech by Barack Obama dated Feb. 17th, 2013.
AP
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by KE7FD on June 13, 2009
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Conspiracy fanatics aside, this event looks like just the sort of thing that hams ought to be doing more often. We cn find many an oppotunity to showcase the hobby at events that are not radio centric. Good pictures, good PR and good fun.
Thanks!
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by OLLIEOXEN27 on June 16, 2009
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I live here in Florida and every year about this time I get hooked on strawberry then in about a week the price doubles or triples and I have to wait until the first week of June next year to eat strawberries again - jeesh.
oli
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