Norwegian Hammeeting and FT-817 elbow connector

This morning I picked up Aage LA1ENA and his son at 7.00 am and headed for Gardermoen just north of Oslo to attend the Norwegian Hammeeting. The trip took us 2,5 hours. Several radio suppliers were present and there was a large flea market and a number of lectures. I listened to a lecture by Roy W7EL who was talking about antenna modelling with EZNEC.

Permo is the largest radio supplier in Norway and on one of their tables I found a box of elbow PL-259/bnc connectors. I noticed the placement of the teeth inside the PL-connector where asymmetric! I guess these are specially made for the FT-817 to mount small verticals like the MFJ-1899T (ATX) straight! Using a normal elbow connector will make the antenna lean over to one side. I bought one of these connectors and a couple of chassis SO-239 connectors for a balun project.

Returned from Hammeeting

I've just returned from the Norwegian Hammeeting. I bought myself 80m of 0.75mm stranded wire and a 13.8V/7A switchmode powersupply at the junksales.

Saturday I listened to Kjell LA2NI speak about Software Defined Radio and enjoyed a very good dinner at the Hamfest. I also met a lot of people who I've previously only met on the air.

Norwegian Hammeeting 2009

The Norwegian Hammeeting 2009 starts today! I'm going there tomorrow with some ham friends and we will stay until Sunday. I will join the Hamfest, some of the speaks and NRRLs yearly General Meeting.

http://www.hammeeting.no/