The next major component in our new EME station is the assembly of the Elevation Rotator. This step also involves pre-assembly and testing of the MAP65 Pre-amp Housing, Antenna Power Dividers, Tran…
We are continuing to make progress on our 2m EME Station build. The latest step in the project was to assemble and test the Elevation Rotator and the MAP65 Preamp System. The article at the link above explains what we did to complete this step in our project and to test what is a major sub-system in our 2m EME Station.
MAP65 Preamp Housing
This part of the project includes installation and testing of the MAP65 EME Preamp Housing on the rotator assembly. This unit and the rotator are tested along with a Green Heron Engineering RT-21 Rotator Controller and a MAP65 EME Sequencer.
We are getting close to installing our new 2m EME Array on the tower. The final preparation step in our project will be the final assembly and preparation of a large H-frame that will mount the four antennas in our EME Antenna Array.
The next step in our EME project is to assemble the four M2 Antenna Systems 2MXP28 Yagis. The four EME Antennas in our array will have a total of 112 elements! These antennas are large, cross-polarized yagis. They feature 28 elements each on 34 1/2 foot booms…
We are building four M2 2MXP28 Antennas to be mounted on an M2 Antennas 2X2 H-Frame. It is important that the four antennas be identical so they operate properly as an array. This includes things like symmetrical mounting and alignment of each antenna’s vertical and horizontal elements and the associated feed points.
The article in the link above covers the steps, tips, and tricks that we are using to assemble four of these large, 2m X-pol Yagi Antennas. The approach, tools, and techniques are applicable to a wide range of VHF and UHF Yagi antennas.
The 2020 Thirteen Colonies K2K New Hampshire team had an amazing year this year!
Matt Strelow, KC1XX joined the K2K team this year. Matt’s superstation and he and his team of world-class operators enabled us to break some records in 2020. Our 2020 operator team included:
All of the members of the 2020 K2K operating team are also members of the Nashua Area Radio Society.
A Record Year for the 2020 K2K Team
The K2K Team made an amazing 22,696 contacts during the July 1 – July 7, 2020, Thirteen Colonies period! This shattered the previous event record for a single state of 16,092 contacts. We are hoping that this will be an event record when the final 2020 results are in. Equally amazing was the fact that over half of the K2K operators made over 1,000 contacts including some ops with relatively modest home stations.
2020 13 Colonies Special Event Certificate
You can read all about our 2020 K2K operation via the link above. Information on how to obtain a K2K QSL card and an event certificate are also included in the link.
More to the 2020 K2K Story
The story behind K2K’s success this year is all about our operators who used their home stations to contribute a good portion of our final contacts. It’s much more difficult to manage pileups and make many contacts from a smaller station with wire antennas and limited power. I want to especially thank our operators who put in the hard work from their home stations to help us make contacts – thank you!
K2K’s 2020 Thirteen Colonies operation included some great stations for sure but the real story around our success was our operator team. Everyone worked very, very hard to make contacts and our results demonstrate this. There was great teamwork with lots of collaboration to ensure that we did a good job of covering all of the bands, modes, and DX around the world. I am proud to have been part of the 2020 K2K Team!!
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