HARA ARENA RIP
Locked
 
|
To ALL..
WHIO TV Channel 7 Dayton,,has some drone video and still pix of Hara arena,,,take a look,, To all... Many Many good memories WITH LOTS OF YOU AT HARA OVER THE YEARS.. RIP HARA,, Tom N7GP EX WA8WZG ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
|
|
I believe that it was schedule to be torn down soon anyway, so this probably
not a great loss. It is, though, sad in a way since like many of you have many fond memories of the old place. It was getting seedier every year, unfortunately. -- 73 de Carl N8VZ -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of [hidden email] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:44 PM To: Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] HARA ARENA RIP To ALL.. WHIO TV Channel 7 Dayton,,has some drone video and still pix of Hara arena,,,take a look,, To all... Many Many good memories WITH LOTS OF YOU AT HARA OVER THE YEARS.. RIP HARA,, Tom N7GP EX WA8WZG ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
|
|
Based on the Tour of Hara video I saw a few years back, the place is a
fire trap and was filled with junk, pollution, dangerous chemicals, and garbage just to name a few. Yes it should have been torn down years ago. Maybe the tornado with move things in that direction and something decent for public usage will come of it. 73 Bob, K4TAX On 5/28/2019 11:50 AM, [hidden email] wrote: > I believe that it was schedule to be torn down soon anyway, so this probably > not a great loss. It is, though, sad in a way since like many of you have > many fond memories of the old place. It was getting seedier every year, > unfortunately. -- 73 de Carl N8VZ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> On > Behalf Of [hidden email] > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:44 PM > To: Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]> > Subject: [Elecraft] HARA ARENA RIP > > To ALL.. > WHIO TV Channel 7 Dayton,,has some drone video and still pix of Hara > arena,,,take a look,, To all... Many Many good memories WITH LOTS OF YOU AT > HARA OVER THE YEARS.. > RIP HARA,, > Tom > N7GP > EX WA8WZG > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
|
Administrator
|
> Bob McGraw (K4TAX) wrote: > > Based on the Tour of Hara video I saw a few years back, the place is a fire trap and was filled with junk, pollution, dangerous chemicals, and garbage just to name a few.... Bob, I have a Hara story. Several years ago, while setting up to demonstrating the KX2, I was cursing the building's steel construction. The only signals I could hear on HF were the on-site demo station, RTTY from an Elecraft XG4 sig gen at the QRP Works booth, and a bunch of *&*#^%@ from nearby computers. I was determined to install an antenna outside. First, I traded "future considerations" for 100 feet of coax at one of the antenna vendors. Next -- and this took about half an hour -- I convinced a guy on the Hara ground crew to drive the elevated lift truck over to our booth. I handed him the coax, which he strung through the rafters some 20' off the ground, with the final catenary terminating near the exterior wall. At this location we had discovered a hole just large enough to accommodate a PL259. The problem was getting the coax up to the hole, which was at about the 15 foot level, directly above a nice display of screwdriver antennas. Again the groundsman stepped up, bringing us a ladder. Unfortunately we still couldn't reach the hole, so we taped the coax connector to the end of a push-up mast in such a way that, when it was poked through the hole, the tape would break, dropping the coax to the ground on the other side. At least that was the plan. It took several tries. Once we had breached the wall, we redeployed the ladder outside and attached wires to form an OCF dipole. Lord knows what the resonant frequency was. We didn't care. We'd be using the internal auto-tuner in the radio to tune it up. One end of the dipole sailed cleanly into a tree after several tries by different Elecraft staff members. One of us was almost but not actually injured by the attached weight. The other end flopped uselessly on the metal roof, so we sent Bob Wolbert (K6XX, a veteran of many precarious antenna installations) up to fix it. The kind folks at Hara allowed our coax and antenna to remain in place for the next two shows. No doubt it is still there, part of the ancient infrastructure kept that wing of the building from collapsing in the tornado. 73, Wayne N6KR ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
|
|
Yes, I've always found hams to be "creative" in many ways. Thanks for
sharing your story. 73 Bob, K4TAX On 5/29/2019 9:54 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: >> Bob McGraw (K4TAX) wrote: >> >> Based on the Tour of Hara video I saw a few years back, the place is a fire trap and was filled with junk, pollution, dangerous chemicals, and garbage just to name a few.... > > Bob, > > I have a Hara story. > > Several years ago, while setting up to demonstrating the KX2, I was cursing the building's steel construction. The only signals I could hear on HF were the on-site demo station, RTTY from an Elecraft XG4 sig gen at the QRP Works booth, and a bunch of *&*#^%@ from nearby computers. > > I was determined to install an antenna outside. > > First, I traded "future considerations" for 100 feet of coax at one of the antenna vendors. Next -- and this took about half an hour -- I convinced a guy on the Hara ground crew to drive the elevated lift truck over to our booth. I handed him the coax, which he strung through the rafters some 20' off the ground, with the final catenary terminating near the exterior wall. At this location we had discovered a hole just large enough to accommodate a PL259. > > The problem was getting the coax up to the hole, which was at about the 15 foot level, directly above a nice display of screwdriver antennas. Again the groundsman stepped up, bringing us a ladder. Unfortunately we still couldn't reach the hole, so we taped the coax connector to the end of a push-up mast in such a way that, when it was poked through the hole, the tape would break, dropping the coax to the ground on the other side. At least that was the plan. It took several tries. > > Once we had breached the wall, we redeployed the ladder outside and attached wires to form an OCF dipole. Lord knows what the resonant frequency was. We didn't care. We'd be using the internal auto-tuner in the radio to tune it up. > > One end of the dipole sailed cleanly into a tree after several tries by different Elecraft staff members. One of us was almost but not actually injured by the attached weight. The other end flopped uselessly on the metal roof, so we sent Bob Wolbert (K6XX, a veteran of many precarious antenna installations) up to fix it. > > The kind folks at Hara allowed our coax and antenna to remain in place for the next two shows. No doubt it is still there, part of the ancient infrastructure kept that wing of the building from collapsing in the tornado. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
«
Return to Elecraft
|
1 view|%1 views
| Free forum by Nabble | Edit this page |