PINE VALLEY REPEATER AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

The PVR Amateur Radio Club is a very active group of ham radio operators. The following photos were taken at some of our events. More are to be added when they become available.

Photographs:

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Viola Tornado Crew & Some PVR Events:

W9MZ(Bob) & W9JR(Dick) Parking Cars	Precarious Repeater Site	Radio Crew At Viola Tornado, 2004	June Dairy Days Parade '06
W9MZ(Bob) & KC9HHK(Joe) at the Fair '06	PVR "Walk w/Grace" Team '06	KC9CMD(Chris) at the Mic '06	Open House - EMCOMM Trailers '06
Walk With GRACE '07	Joe & Linda - (mid center); Cancer Survivors	Mike, Laura & Shawn at Walk '07	PVR Gang at Walk '07

2007 Field Day:

On Saturday, June 23, 2007, thousands of ham radio operators across the country displayed their emergency communications capabilities during the annual Field Day sponsored by the ARRL (American Radio Relay League).

Members of the PVR Amateur Radio Club gathered at a selected site to participate in FD where operators made as many radio contacts, using various bands and modes, with hams at similar sites in other states for a 24-hour period.

For the first time experience, PVR did very well, making more than 200 radio contacts.

The ARRL Bug!	Assembling the Beam.	Carrying Beam to Tower.	This is Fun!
Attaching the Beam.	The Tower Goes Up.	Up and Ready To Go.	Our FD Site.
Our EMCOMM Trailer.	W9JR(Dick) - Making Contacts.	W9RIG(Ralph) - A Great CW Operator	Believe It Or Not - It Works!
A Homebrew Fantenna.	Another Homebrew Antenna.	The "Wobbly" Goes Up!	The "Wobbly" Works!
KC9KOM(Josh) - End of A Long Day.	Talking it Over.	End of Day Potluck.	FD '07 - A Great Experience!

Weather Isn't the Only Hazard:

Sometimes when activated to go to a site for Storm Spotting, hazardous weather isn't the only hazard ham radio operators might meet. Just ask Roger, KC9HHH, about his encounter with a common Wisconsin hazard ... whitetail deer!

End Result of Meeting Roger's Hazard.

The Flood of June, 2008:

On Sunday, June 8, it began to rain ... and it rained ... and it rained until at last it stopped with northern Iowa and central and southwest Wisconsin completely flooded.

The communities of Viola, LaFarge, Avoca, Lone Rock, and Spring Green experienced floods the likes of which they had never seen before.

In Sauk County, flood waters washed a new channel between Lake Delton and the Wisconsin River resulting in the lake being completely drained.

Here are some photos showing the flood waters.

A river out of its banks.	Viola-A Community in Trouble.	La Farge is nearly surrounded.	Water, Water Everywhere.
A Favorite Downtown Viola Business.	Where are the Shoppers?	No traffic today!	ROAD CLOSED!
This Farm is in Trouble!	People are not the only Victims.	Cars are victims, too.	Taking a Chance -- or what?

Field Day 2008:

On a bright and sunny Saturday morning, June 28, members of the PVR Amateur Radio Club assembled at the field day site to begin setting up stations and antennas.

When Field Day officially began, our site was up and ready to go.

With thoughts of a perfect day for communicating, it didn't last long. In the afternoon, storm clouds begn to build, and shortly a terrific wind suddenly blew in ... and our tent sites became airborne. Unfortunately, we have no photographic record of the destruction. The aluminum poles were bent, the cover material was torn ... it was a real mess.

Our Emergency Communications trailer, however, rode out the storm in grand style, and rather than have a 4A station, we became a 2A. Despite the lack of two transmitters, we made many contacts with other stations throughout the United States.

Riding the '08 Waves.	Assembling the Beam.	Beam Carried to Tower.	The Antenna goes on Tower.
Old Glory Ready to Go.	It's Almost Ready.	The Tower is Ready to Go UP.	Walking the Tower to Vertical.
The Tower is Up!	Introducing Our New FD Banner.	Getting Station 1 Ready.	Assembling Station #2.
Station #3 Taking Shape.	Station #4 Almost Ready.	A 5th Station Being Assembled.	Putting up the 40m Dipole.
We Will Have a Computer Network.	Our "Elmer" Helping a "Newbie".	Operating from the COMM Trailer.	We Made Many Contacts During FD.

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