UTARC Miscellaneous Photos

The following photos were taken by UTARC alumnus George (K5TR) a few years back. To see some more of his photos take a look at his home page.

• Photo 1: Picture of the shack and UT Tower in the background. This is the photo upon which our last QSL card was based.
• Photo 2: Tony N5OWG and Robert KA5WSS at a UTARC picnic in the early 1990's.
• Photo 3: Another shot of the group at the UTARC picnic. We're not certain about the identities of the people in the photo. Can you help identify them?
• Photo 4: George K5TR was one of the early proponents of the VHF rover contest category. Here's a picture of his radio equipped car ready to go.
• Photo 5: Here's what the inside of George's car looked like.
• Photo 6: George's previous callsign was WB5VZL. Here's an earlier photo of him.
• Photo 7: George has operated from many great stations including 6D2X in Mexico. Here he is at the mic.
• Photo 8: UTARC alumnus Trey N5KO was also one of the operators at 6D2X.
• Photo 9: There's a lot of work that must be done at a big station, including tower work. Here's a shot of K5TR's shoes, 200 feet off of the ground at N5AU.
• Photo 10: And here's another shot from above. The tower George is on was at N5AU outside of Dallas.
• Photo 11: Can't get enough of the altitude shots?
• Photo 12: The station at N5AU is inactive these days, but one of the ops when it was still operational was UTARC alumnus Pete N5TR.
• Photo 13: Another shot of Pete calling CQ on the low end of 20M.
• Photo 14: Yet another UTARC alumnus was also one of the early ops at N5AU. This time it's Randy K5ZD.
• Photo 15: Randy tries to dig a signal out of the noise and QRM.
• Photo 16: Pete using a homebrew boom microphone contraption.

The following photos are of UTARC events and/or UTARC members. This batch includes photos of the UTARC alumnus Trey Garlough N5KO (ex-WN4KKN) travels.

• Photo 1: Austin ham Jim George N3BB and UTARC member Derek Wills AA5BT at dinner.
• Photo 2: UTARC member George K5TR with his mother, Helen.
• Photo 3: UTARC alumnus Trey N5KO with Rus K2UA in K1TO's shack.
• Photo 4: George K5TR at his home station.
• Photo 5: UTARC alumnus Dave WD5N at his home station.
• Photo 6: Dave W6QHS pours Trey N5KO some wine.
• Photo 7: Trey N5KO operates from the W5KFT station in Llano.
• Photo 8: George K5TR visits the shack of Austin Ham Ron AB5KD.

UTARC alumnus Trey Garlough visited Central Texas in 1996 and took some time visiting a few stations with UTARC alumnus George (K5TR). Here are some photos of that visit.

• Photo 1: George K5TR and Dave W5UN inspect the base of W5UN's famous 2M moonbounce array.
• Photo 2: K5TR and W5UN with a better view of the antenna.
• Photo 3: Dave W5UN and Trey N5KO in W5UN's shack.
• Photo 4: W5UN and N5KO in front of the antenna (which still does not quite fit into the frame).
• Photo 5: N5KO at the controls of W5KFT near Llano, a station that George K5TR helped design and build.
• Photo 6: N5KO operating at W5KFT.

Long-time UTARC supporter Trevor Smith AB5EU added a Force-12 C-4 multi-monoband HF yagi antenna for 14 MHz, 21 MHz, and 28 MHz, which also has a rotatable dipole for 7 MHz in December, 1999. UTARC member George K5TR did the tower work.

• Photo 1: The tower before the antenna is installed.
• Photo 2: George K5TR wrestles the antenna into position...
• Photo 3: ...now bolting the antenna onto the mast....
• Photo 4: ...and finishing the installation.
• Photo 5: The tower after the antenna is installed.