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PHOTOS
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This is where I will start putting random and old photos.
Some of these may simply be links to large pictures, or the
pictures might just display here with or without a caption.
In other words this is where I put everything else that I
just can't figure out anywhere else to put it.
Here is John in Newington Connecticut,
where we find him at the famous W1AW station where he took over
the microphone for several hours and put PORN on the air on the
East Coast. Having worked stations from the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA
and now from the ARRL headquarters we can say that PORN has now spread
from coast to coast.
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This is Everton, ZZ3NOD (left) from Brazil and John, N8EOD
at a going away party for Everton who is returning home for
a short time and then moving to Australia where he has a job
waiting for him. Everton first came to the US and lived with
John and his family for a year to learn English and about
Americans. During his recent visit to the US, Everton came out
with John to join us at a PORN meeting on Thursday night.
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John travels alot and is planning a long trip in October
to operate on board the International Space Station. After completing
his duties at the Nasa Mission Training Grounds in Houston, Texas, this
photo was taken.
Some concern was raised about John's involvement in PORN, but it has
been determined that all participants on the ISS are adults and that
they were capable of making their own decisions. John has been given
a letter by the President endorsing PORN in communications efforts.
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This is John N8EOD operating the radio room onboard the
Queen Mary. Yes, the famous ship named the Queen Mary.
John often finds himself working in California and
visits the radio room so often, they have given him
a key to the radio room and make him wear a uniform.
This photo was taken in March 2008 while John was
operating one of the HF radios. (Just for the record,
this one is real).
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John, submitted the new photo above while wearing his
WMPORN hat just to not be outdone by Joe Walsh and another
honorary crew member who had their picture taken aboard the
Queen Mary in the radio room with their WMPORN hats.
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This is the new car recently purchased for our local
Official Observer. Don't know what an Official Observer
is? You did pass your test for amateur radio right? To find
out more about what an Official Observer (commonly called
an OO that's oh, oh not double nuaght this ain't the
Beverly Hilbillies) please take a nice sunday afternoon
read of Part 97 of the Federal Communications Commissions
rules and reglations.
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This photo was taken at the WMPORN Field Day operation.
We had been putting up antennas as high as we could on
whatever structure we could find for years. Well, this time
we decided that if we got the operating position a little
higher we could just drop the antennas out doors and windows
and other various holes in trailer. This also eliminated our
concerns about flooding caused by mid-June hurricanes in
Michigan.
We also discovered that this trailer was clad entirely in
aluminum and had an excellent match on 40 meters when loaded
up using a chunk of RG6 with a big loop of romex used to build
the matching network. No, the trailer does not spin on the
tower, so to change our directivity we used a combination of
connection points on the exterior of the trailer and a large
plate capacitor that was attached to the tuning network.
Unfortunately we were disqualified as we were not aware that
the use of a small nuclear fission generator did not count as
emergency power. For next year we have installed a small hydroelectric
generator in the creek off to the left of this picture. We are also
going to employ a bank of batteries to supplement the hydro power
during the times when we use the California Killowat amplifier.
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