Hi everyone,

On Saturday, April 23, come on down to the club station and we can build a DF antenna setup. You can either bring your own parts or I will have them available as kits. The parts cost for the tape measure beam is about $10.00 and the cost for the offset attenuator is about $5.00 - $15.00 depending on your junk box. If you want to build them from scratch, plans for the tape measure beam are on Joe Leggio’s web site at http://home.att.net/~jleggio/projects/rdf/rdf.htm. The plans for Joe Moell’s offset attenuator is available on his web site at: http://members.aol.com/joek0ov/offatten.html. I might add that I have permission from both Joe Leggio and Joe Moell to sell kits of their designs. Let me know if you want me to provide a kit, otherwise just show up with the parts and lets do it!!! Afterwards, I’ll put on a small transmitter hunt at the Red Cross parking lot to test out the setups.

Something else where we need some help is rebuilding and testing out seven antenna rotors so they can be sold (with the proceeds going to SBARC.) Basically, the electrical terminals need to be replaced, and while they are apart, we might as well go ahead and lube them.

The club station opens on Saturday about 9:00 AM and closes at noon. See you there!