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VK0EK – March 6 – April 20, 2016MenuSKIP TO CONTENTSearchPhoto’s from Jim, N6TQ, Adam, K2ARB and Dave, WJ2OAPRIL 7, 2016 / KY6RHere are some great photo’s from Jim, N6TQ, taken in and around Atlas Cove:  Arliss, W7XU  Atlas Cove  The Laurens Penninsula   Adam took some pictures of Jim recording weather data for a a school in Tiburon, CA that we featured earlier in this blog:   Jim, N6TQ And great photos from Dave, WJ2O:  The HDT Tent Heater  160M vertical and 4 square in the flooded Nullabor  Braveheart Crew pictures  And Dave, WJ2O, with new friends . . .  Dave took a picture of the patch panels that I built – its great to see them in action!  You can also see the very nice HDT flooring. Having the HDT gear makes all the difference in the world when you are in a polar or subantarctic location! 73, Rich KY6R Share this:Related16K QSO's and New Photo'sWith 13 commentsLoading the BraveheartWith 6 commentsGetting Ready to LeaveWith 2 comments UncategorizedPost navigation← Lets Get You in the Log!4 thoughts on “Photo’s from Jim, N6TQ, Adam, K2ARB and Dave, WJ2O”
 julius martinez
APRIL 7, 2016 AT 4:19 PM
nice photos Jim 73 ! from julius DY2JVD Baguio city Philippines…REPLY
 Jan ZS6BMN
APRIL 7, 2016 AT 4:35 PM
Thank you for another great set of photos! Everything is very interesting too. Amazing how well those vertical antennas stood up to the harsh weather!That patch panel is a brilliant design! Being able to see what is going on behind the panel makes it so easy to ensure everything is going where it should!
Those ever present penguins are going to miss the company of the VK0EK Team 73, Jan
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 WILD Bill N2WB
APRIL 7, 2016 AT 8:14 PM
Nice PATCH on the red and white jacket! 3Y0XReally ENJOY the photos and W5KUB links !
DX RULES !!!73
Wild Bill N2WBREPLY
 Heikki Keto
APRIL 7, 2016 AT 8:45 PM
Subject: Pictures, English language etc.Great stuff, Jim, Adam and Dave! As a former semi-professional photographer (meaning like, I did make some money out of photos with magazines etc.), since tens of years, mainly in black and white in those days, I love these photos (not photo’s, please). As it happens, I am an English teacher by training. An American radio amateur friend once said, “There seems no way of correcting the grammar of some people, like the use of its and it’s. An estimated 95 per cent of Americans get those two wrong, so I’ve given up”. WHAT THE HECK is so difficult about it, ITS means “of it* and IT’S means “it is”! Didn’t your first grade teacher tell you the difference? She should have been fired in 1929! English spelling of course is too difficult for the “native” speakers (much easier for others like myself, a foreigner with some 7 languages which I know more or less fluently, plus some more well enough to buy bread, butter, and vegetables, whichever the country might be (I did live in Pakistan a couple of years but picked up only a few phrases in Urdu, Pashtu and Farsi). For goodness’s sakes, if you did not learn it in school, PLEASE learn your spelling at some break while not chasing DX! Not to mention, with all due respect, our beloved Dr. Bob’s 3Y0PI book which was a language catastrophy (apart from the familiar its and it’s mixup, best of them was perhaps “hanger” like a coat hanger for “hangar”). In general, it was a great book though, with my close friend Peter ON5TT much in the center of it… What I told Peter at the time was that even if you are a PhD, it does not necessarily mean that you can write correct English! Apparently Bob was at the time not bothered with having anyone check his text. (This refers also to a British colleague of mine in Zaire whose French I was correcting and who said, but I have the “A” level in French, to which I replied that it does not mean your French is perfect. What she liked even less was when I corrected her English… As for any text, I would simply recommend that when someone tries to write something in English, they should use a (competent) editor/proofreader. Or stay away. Someone once said, “what is badly said, is badly thought”.
Have I sidestepped, or gone off the handle? The handle is many decades long (my ham licence dates to August 1957 and my English to 1950 but I don’t insist it is perfect)! Go, then, all you umpteen possible commentators on telling me wtf if you don’t (not dont) understand what I am talking about. It’s (it is, not its) about the English language, for Pete’s sake! Would be lovely to see a hundred badly spelled comments…Maybe I should tell the crowd that I was a wanted DX in my time: C31QJ, 9Q5UN, 7P8FE, 7Q7UN, so I think can pretend that I know something of that end of the pileup. Which was already unbearable at times. The “best” part, or rather the opposite, was perhaps when a world-famous British DX operator, then in Swaziland (while i was running a pileup in Lesotho), stole my frequency! Too bad for those who missed 7P8 at that time.
Wishing all the best to the VK0EK team and sorry but the Frenchies at Ft4JA are going to beat the QSO record. Such an unfortunate difference in conditions, and WOW the effort of the boys down there! Just go on till the last minute on Sunday!Vy 73,
Hank OH2TW/F5VGSREPLY
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