Steel City ARC was invited down to the Carnegie Science Center for there Adult 21+ night program on Sept 13th 2019.  There was 1500 adults attending that adult only program which we had an estimated 200 of them enter our room to talk about how amateur radio is alive an well in 2019.  We showed them Go Box for how ham radio helps out in emergencies along with a digital station working Europe all night long. We even had them try out an Morse code key while explaining why we still love that form of communication.

Here is Christine N3LRG working all the Europe FT-8 stations. While explaining to people that we use Morse, Digital, and voice for communications.

Close up of two of the static demo we had The Icom 756 Pro III and 7300. Karl was using his radio as a morse code oscillator. Our guest really enjoyed that.

Here Karl WA3VXJ checking in on the remote

Here is our new banner that will be shown at all the hamfest.

Getting all set up here and powered up.

You cant beat the view of the city from the science center. We had a great view from the 4th floor

Here is Chris K3PQ

Here Bob trying to get his wife from work to the science center and we had a lot of the center staff checking in with us and asking questions too.

Got get all the Europe station, I worked Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Slovenia all from the center by login into the remote station

Here is Jacob KC3MRA

Were open come on in!

The public starting to come in and ask questions.

Set up the 7300 as a code practise oscillator.

Here Chris working the crowd

Just some of the people we had an estimated 200 people out of the 1500 that stop in to check out ham radio

There was a lot of interest in the QSL card we brought down to the show

Here is Jacob working the crowd

Yep we had a lot of ladies asking questions also.

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FT-8 flowing across the digital station

Again a great view of the city the night time view was just as good

Steel City ARC @ The Carnegie Science Center

Take a look at the pictures  taken at the work party Aug 2019.  That our Karl, WA3VXJ mounting our new Hex Beam antenna on the far tower. After that he was up the VHF tower remounted the 2m beam antenna. I also got to ride up  70 feet to take some pictures.

Tree top view of the Mosley and repeater antennas.

The view looking South East

View looking East and the Cell phone tower

Another view of the south

View of the North Tri-Bander and the shed roof we really need to paint out call sign on the top of the shed

Steel City Club house

Another view of the Mosley and the repeater antennas. Plus the horizon towards North West

Looking straight down from 70 ft. WOW!

View of the South West

Here your new Hex Beam antenna

The lift at work

Another top down view

This is an amazing little machine.

Going Up

Karl going to great heights

Lift shot

Working on the tower

It was real fun balancing the Hex Beam by himself. Its only 25 pounds but we added the 40m add on kit and there two coax cables hanging off it.

Here is the repeater hut and Shed

Hex Beam getting closer to the top

Hex Beam launch

Getting closer

Here is the South Tri-Band along with the 6m beam antenna

Almost there

Here the finish product Karl did a great job with it.

Its mated to the tower

Taking down the 900 Mhz beam to make room for the 2m antenna. So from top to bottom 220 Mhz, 144 Mhz, 440 Mhz, 1296 Mhz beams

Unfortunately the 900 Mhz ATV antenna is coming down

Reviewing the situation

Karl hard at work he didnt even take a break

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Click here to see the pictures from our latest work party at the club house while we clean up the Mosley antenna area and raised the 440 antenna off the ground level finally, and started the work on the Hex Beam.

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On Dec 10, 2018 the Steel City radio club got a new radio antenna and tower. The Mosley  PRO-67-C-3 was install beside the club house and here are the photo from that tower raising.

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If you have more pictures please send them to Christine, N3LRG