Last year, NOVEC rearranged the ac power feed to our repeaters hosted at their Lomond Drive location. When lightning stuck the NOVEC tower next to our repeater shack, some of our equipment was damaged. Here is the damage that Ken, KE2N found : The D-STAR gateway computer had failed (power supply) The mini-PC we were using for 224.66 Asterisk had failed (judged not repairable) The USB audio interface for 224.66 had failed The aux port on the 224.66 repeater had failed. The existing ac power surge arrester (20+ years old) had both of its “healthy” lamps off Ken found the reasons for why we suffered lightning damage: What I observed was that NOVEC had re-arranged our power feed since my last visit. The feeder cable (previously underground) was now in a plastic conduit running in an overhead cable tray,… Read more »
On April 16th and 17th, OVH members supported the Old Dominion Equestrian Endurance race near Strasbourg and the West Virginia line. The OVH members helping were Gil, KM4OZH; Duane, KK4BZ; Mark, WA4KFZ and John, KG4NXT. Net control was Ed, KE4RL and other hams assisting were Zoe, KG4TAM; Tom, KN4UNR and Neil, KE2LEY. Frank, WB1USN was assistant net control. The event consisted of a 50 mile race, a 30 mile race and a Ride and Tie race (RT). The RT event had a team of 2 humans and one horse. One person rode the horse and the other ran. At various points, the horse/human team pulled ahead and tied the horse to a tree. When the second person caught up, she got on the horse. Meanwhile, the first person then became the runner. Most of the communication was on a 2… Read more »
Happy Spring or Winter (depending on the day) Birthday wishes to Harry, KC9TXL; Harry, KN4IJY; Brian, KK4CBS; Gene, KN4JMB; Gil, KM4OZH; Paul, N4PD; Joe, KI4OHR; Steve, KJ4YHA; Chris, KU4FT; Lillian, KK4MXY; David, KI4AZX; Paul, W4ZB and David, KD4DEE. KG4NXT and I had a great time during the Virginia QSO party! Saturday morning we hit the road early and drove up to Skyline Drive, where we made our first contact. The day was beautiful and the park was in great shape! We left thru the gate in Front Royal and headed to Winchester, then pointed the car towards Manassas. On Sunday afternoon, we went out again to Loudoun County and hit Manassas & Manassas Park. Overall, a great weekend. We operated for the first time as Multiple Operators Mobile, a lot less logging for us and we had a personal best… Read more »
