Jalama Beach Adventure--May 2016

Jalama Beach County Park is located 15 miles west of Lompoc, California.

Pictures from our outing to Jalama Beach in May 2016. It was attended by Dave Flack, W6DLF, Dave Crocker, W6VYC, Hiroki Kato, AH6CY, Bob Mix, KF6ABC, Harley Hahn, KJ6BRF, and Cliff Sojourner, K6CLS.

Dave Crocker, W6VYC, and Hiroki Kato, AH6CY, using Hiro's coffee-can vertical.

73 from Williams Hill QRPeditions

The breakfast boys say QRX until May at Jalama Beach.

Our antennas at Williams Hill

Two element tri-band Mosley beam at 33 feet. Crank-up military mast. Rotor is a ChannelMaster.

End-fed half-wave (EFHW) wire fed with 9:1 unun. Using long steel cable as counter poise. Didn't work all that well and never as well as the top-loaded vertical.

Six meter yagi,up about 20 feet.

The main antenna was a 40 foot vertical with a 140 foot flat top. It was grounded using 200 square feet of chicken wire which was also attached to the perimeter steel cable. A good tune from 160 meters to 10 meters.

Exploring Williams Hill transmitter/relay site

Williams Hill is located on BLM land near Lockwood, CA.

The hill was originally used as a fire lookout.

Cloud cover fills the Salinas Valley, to the East. 

Cliff, K6CLS, and Dave,W6VYC, in the motorhome.

Why we do what we do!

Some stations worked on 10 meters

WP4PJI, Victor;  NN4NC, Mac;  W4LID, Cyrus;  KD9BKY, Alan;  AJ4FX, Ken;  LU1JHD, Marc;  W4OOB, Eric;  KD8PJP, Scott;  Thank you all.

Antennas up despite the storm

3-band, two-element yagi; three-element 6 meter beam and 43 foot vertical antenna set up in the wind.