Re: [IRCA] Tybee Island, Georgia, Saturday Sunset

[Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

     Where were you located for this attempt?

Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
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> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:33:33 -0400
> From: gilstacy@xxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [IRCA] Tybee Island, Georgia, Saturday Sunset
> 
> Folks,
> 
> My foray to the beach last night was not as successful as the first and was
> probably some sort of corollary to Murphy's Law regarding degree of
> preparation with results being inversely proportional to the amount of
> preparation and enhanced level of expectations. The first time I went last
> week, preparation was an afterthought.  I carried a Bog reel, compass, and
> two radios and a bag chair and clearly heard audio on 3 TA's, two on a ULR,
> and numerous hets.
> 
> Yesterday, beginning at dawn, I drove to the beach to look for a better site
> with a wider sand apron at high tide than what I had the first time.  High
> tide was at sunrise and sunset yesterday so what I would see at morning
> would hold true for last night.  I also soldered battery connections for my
> pre-amp and phaser to be powered by a Duracell Instant Jumpstart System. I
> loaded my E1, D96L, Palstar R30, pre-amp, phaser, two bogs, 500' and 325', a
> bag chair and piece of plywood for a table top onto RollEeze collapsible
> beach cart http://www.beachcartsusa.com/ and shoved off about a hour before
> sunset.  The gear fit with room to spare into two plastic milk crates, the
> type that make great loops a la Kevin and are usually available behind
> grocery stores at night, just underneath the sign that states the criminal
> penalties for unauthorized removal.  They will never take me alive.
> 
> I set up the rx, phaser and amp before rolling out the bogs.  I shot a 60
> degree azimuth from rx to the edge break of highwater mark and the 325' bog
> fit perfectly.  Plan was to aim the longer bog at 45 degrees.  To make it
> fit the apron, it had to be laid 30 degrees.
> 
> I thought the set up was relatively perfect other than the longer bog's
> azimuth, but I had success at 30 degrees the other night despite the beam
> plowing up and through the Eastern seaboard.  Being above the high tide
> line, beachcombers tend to avoid the sand apron or at least that's what I
> thought.
> However, tt seemed that every damn jogger, kid, and tourist walked across
> the wires and two kids followed them to the water's edge.  I just knew they
> were going to pull on it but they didn't.  Thoughts about buying an electric
> fence charging set up for use on my next trip ran through the more evil
> hemisphere of my brain.
> 
> I fed the bogs directly to the phasers without transformers.  I believe the
> design can tolerate higher impedance matches.  However, phasing was not as
> good as I experience at home.  I couldn't knock down much with phasing.
> My home bog set up has the wires separated by only 3-4 feet running
> parallel.  Perhaps that was the difference. I set at the dials from 2330 to
> 0100 and ran the dial from top to bottom and heard numerous carriers but no
> audio. Strongest hets were at 1521 and interestingly at 1251.  It was cold
> and windy and began to mist, so I reeled up an went home, being the victim
> of too much planning, high expectations and lousy condx.
> 
> 73 Gil
> Tybee Island, GA
> E1, D96L, Palstar R30
> 335', 500' BOGS
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