Captain Tom. "This looks like a good place. The sun will be behind the trees this afternoon"
"The fish finder says we passed over the dam about 50 yards back"
"Did you say clove hitch, granny knot, half hitch or bowline..?"
"I know this tree isn't all that big Tom but the wind isn't blowing that hard"
"I'm sure I told my daughters to neatly coil this rope the last time we were out..!"
"Hey Pickett; what does poison oak look like". "Hey Tom; do you think this rope is big enough..?"
"Let's try these bigger trees, I think the wind is coming up."
"I was a Boy Scout over 50 years ago and no one had a boat.. so what kind of a knot do I use..?"
"No problem Tom, but I always paint my sinkers yellow"
"That's not the K2 bag Tom, that's my lunch"
Typical NoGa instrumentation..!
Always expensive, high precision equipment.
"Alright, if we point this semi vertical, long wire toward the north we will have good propagation to both coasts.."
"If I lean out a little more... WHOOPSIE..!"
"I know it is up there Tom, but if the sinker were painted yellow I might be able to see it..."
"Wiggle it again Tom, I think it is hung up on that hornet nest.."
Tom's K2 and laptop for dup checking.
"Tom, K4TJD...Let's see.. what is the exchange for this event..??"
"I know it weights 58 pounds but I thought we were going to have 4 or 5 stations and they could all run off this battery.."
Pickett, AD4S, doing one of his favorite things.. calling CQ with the memory buttons..!
L/R.. Tom, K4TJD, Pickett, AD4S, John, AB4GK.
"Waddya mean my 40 meter harmonic is killing 20 meters..?"
Let's see.. how do you set up the "fast play" buttons..??
This was the back up site.. an abandoned girl scout camp.
John, AB4GK. "Wow, I can't believe this rig.. can't wait until I finish my K2".
Greg, KD4JVG, putting them in the log..! Greg brought his scuba gear to look for the power house but the hike from the parking lot, wind, water temperature and opaque water color were too much.
Time to go. " I think that big insulator on the end of the wire is hung up on that hornet nest again. Why is that wire hanging in the water..?"
"Now that you have recovered the wire, would you come back and get me..???"
"Let's get out of here before the Park Rangers see all these beer bottles."
"I'm not mad, I'm cold.." I know the girl scout camp was in there somewhere..!"
Back to the Athens Boat Club"