Tri-County ARA Field Day 2008 Pictures
This page is just a quick and dirty display of some
photos from the Tri-County ARA (Tri as in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Orange
County, California) Field Day 2008. No attempt to create a fancy HTML
layout with clickable thumbnails.
The first four pics are wide-angle panoramics created by
stitching together 5 to 9 snapshots using the amazing
AutoPano stitching program. In most browsers
you will have to SCROLL -> SCROLL -> SCROLL to the right to see all of the
picture.
- View of the site two weeks before Field Day
TCARA_Site_La-Verne-University.jpg
- View of WA8LMF instant mobile setup from street .
Note 14 dBi WiFi panel antenna standing on the roof of the Jetta. (The WiFi
antenna was used to connect to a hot spot in a coffee shop about two and a
half blocks down the street to monitor APRS on findu.com). You can also see,
between two of the palm tree trunks, the 30-foot portable mast holding up a
ladder-line fed HF dipole and a Diamond 77 2M/450 no-ground-plane mobile whip.
TCARA_Pan-Fm-Street.jpg
- View of Field Day site from within the site. At
the left, you can see the WA8LMF mobile setup. If you look carefully, you can
see the Icon AH4 auto-coupler for the HF dipole ladder line resting on the
ground.
TCARA_Pan-Fm-Site1.jpg
- Another pan view showing more of the site activity.
TCARA-Pan-Fm-Site-2.jpg
Normal aspect single-snapshot pictures
