Ride The Power Of Cycle 24

Turn on. Tune up. Operate. The ultimate game is about to begin where wireless technology is matched with human ingenuity in the pursuit of the coveted RadioSport Box. Our ionospheric field is seti primed for what may turn out to be a world record shattering event compliments of Cycle 24 conditions.

A brief screenshot of global 10m propagation suggests great hope planetary wide as thousands of wireless operators are poised at the shack line. Wireless radios are inspected and tested like one listening to the high pitch hum of an F1 race car engine. Antennas are deployed like giant wind gathering sails whose sole purpose is to collect radio frequency wind.

Across the planet, hundreds are fine tuning equipment, checking the condition of their radio frequency sails, modeling ionospheric weather conditions, diagnosing critical game software, and waiting to ride the power of Cycle 24.

Contest on! 

Project RadioSport Station | Chapter 1

Good morning from inside the shackadelic fun zone where Cycle 24 continues pumping DX into the computer log. I'm taking a time out to introduce Project RadioSport Station and its purpose is to chronicle the construction of a M2 class station from beginning to the Box. I realize as the Beatles sang about one's long and winding road, that, everything has a beginning from go vertical all the way to heavy metal in the sky; my expectation is a long and winding road to the Box.

Team Work
I've learned that it takes a team to achieve ambitious goals and I'm a lucky ham radio operator to share in the friendship of the Beach Boys Amateur Radio Club.

Shackadelic Fun Zone
Photograph number 1 is the current iteration of my low power, low profile RadioSport station configured along the OH8X cockpit model.

Photograph number 2 is another angle on the same perspective.

The Lift
Photograph number 3 is the 55 foot Tri-Ex tower manufactured in Visalia, California ready for man lifting onto ETO's truck.


Photograph number 4 taken after successfully lifting a few hundred pounds and securing the tower for transportation as QDH inspects our lashings while ETO prepares for movement. They are members of the Beach Boys Amateur Radio Club.

Photograph number 5 taken after testing the security of our lashings prior to movement for storage.

Positioning
Photograph number 6 with Beach Boys Amateur Radio Club participant's QDH and ETO in the picture. We lifted the tower off the truck and it wasn't easy. The goal achieved!

Photograph number 7 with ETO and myself after positioning the Tri-Ex tower.

Photograph number 8 and let the data plate speak for itself.

Lastly, I purchased a KLM KT34 tri-bander for tower one while thinking about stacking a second KT34 on it as well, more to follow in the near future.

Contest on!