Baker-to-Vegas Image Gallery
Images from our preparation in 1996
We're still looking for a few good images from 1996 to fill this out a bit.
- b2v96-1.jpg - (51 kb) KE6NVU installs
and configures a tracker for testing.
- b2v96-2.jpg - (74 kb) Same scene, with
laptop and tracker components visible.
Images from our preparation in 1997
- b2v97-1.jpg - (66 kb) KH6JUZ, building
six new trackers.
- b2v97-2.jpg - (68 kb) KH6JUZ, testing
the trackers with MacAPRS on PowerBooks.
- b2v97-3.jpg - (53 kb) More parts to
assemble, for three digipeaters.
- b2v97-4.jpg - (62 kb) Low power testing
with handhelds and dummy-loads.
Our local CERT members test our setup instructions
Our Community Emergency Responce Team volunteers have an interest in
communications, and many have become Hams, and formed the CART
(CERT Amateur Radio Team). For one drill, we had them set up a
portable repeater at Lake Elizabeth, in Fremont, to see how long
it would take someone without prior experience to set up.
- certfd1.jpg - (58 kb) KE6NVU oversees
the set up of a Jungle Tower.
- certfd2.jpg - (58 kb) WA6AWI and W6QWK
mentor the volunteers on radio topics.
- certfd5.jpg - (32 kb) KE6NVU's tracker
package, and a portable UHF repeater.
Building the equipment for 1997 race
Fremont Fire Station #4 also occassionally doubles as an EOC. We were
integrating loaned equipment to build APRS trackers
per our specifications.
- techday1.jpg - (34 kb) KH6JUZ oversees
volunteer cable makers.
- techday2.jpg - (34 kb) making, checking,
testing and fixing
cables for trackers.
- techday3.jpg - (19 kb) 1995 tracker
gear on a 1997 package frame.
- techday4.jpg - (35 kb) KE6HCI and
KE6NVU Installing trackers for testing.
- techday5.jpg - (26 kb) KB6UOK integrating
gear, KD6RMI logging serial numbers.
- techday6.jpg - (30 kb) Heat guns help
cure the glue on tracker frames.
- techday7.jpg - (26 kb) KE6IVA's toolkit
includes a laptop with APRS!
- techday8.jpg - (28 kb) Burn-in bench
testing trackers before deployment.
Building the repeater cabinets
- ims02.jpg - (47 kb) KB6UOK and KE6NVU fasten
the cable harnesses.
- ims03.jpg - (72 kb) KE6NVU and N6IMS testing
the repeater power output.
- ims04.jpg - (68 kb) KH6JUZ, N6DOK and N4OGL
with B2V97 Repeater s/n 00000001.
- ims05.jpg - (75 kb) Everyone autographed
inside the cover of the first peater.
- ims06.jpg - (75 kb) A (blurry) close-up of
the UHF repeater radio.
- ims07.jpg - (49 kb) A (blurry) close-up of
a tracker package with GPS and radios. (Alinco radios, Kantronics
TNC and Garmin GPS-II, courtesy KH6JUZ)
- ims10.jpg - (94 kb) KH6JUZ testing trackers
in the foreground, radio test rack behind him, and repeater cabinet
assembly going on in the depths of the garage.
- ims11.jpg - (61 kb) N6IMS, KE6NVU, WD6CJK
(lower left), N7TVE (from behind), and N6DOK discussing the
finer details of cabinetry.
- ims12.jpg - (60 kb) Woodworking, metal work,
cable harness assembly and soldering.
Images from the 1997 Race
Most of these images were taken with a Kodak DC-40 digital camera.
(Some images are missing from the sequence, because they were not in
focus, or they were almost duplicates of other images. -UOW-)
- b2v97-01.jpg - (58 kb) KD6WXD sets up
our JavAPRS feed at Las Vegas Command.
- b2v97-02.jpg - (49 kb) (left) Primary
APRS and Net Control, (center) Secondary APRS and monitors, (right)
JavAPRS feed to the Internet, for viewing 'back home'.
- b2v97-03.jpg - (33 kb) Las Vegas Command
construction/repair area.
- b2v97-04.jpg - (60 kb) NCS Trainee watches
as KD6WXD wrestles with the JavAPRS feed.
- b2v97-05.jpg - (34 kb) N6QMY gets the net
started, while the trainee watches.
- b2v97-06.jpg - (54 kb) N6UOW and N6QMY at
the beginning of the race.
- b2v97-07.jpg - (67 kb) Experienced NCS
operators, demonstrating their skills.
- b2v97-08.jpg - (55 kb) WD6CJK handles
some logistics details at L.V.C.
- b2v97-09.jpg - (56 kb) WD6CJK takes a turn
as NCS trainer.
- b2v97-10.jpg - (62 kb) N6UOW troubleshoots
intermod problems.
- b2v97-11.jpg - (60 kb) Some questions about
disappearing trackers...
- b2v97-13.jpg - (47 kb) The trainees get
their chance at the mic and keyboard.
- b2v97-14.jpg - (55 kb) Things are running
smoothly for now...
- b2v97-15.jpg - (46 kb) Headsets for everyone
as the nets get busier.
- b2v97-16.jpg - (57 kb) N6QMY has a different
radio going into each ear, with noise-cancelling headphones!
- b2v97-17.jpg - (53 kb) WD6CJK and KB6UOK
take the second shift NCS posts. (background: KH6JUZ and N6IMS take
a break from a day of field technical duty)
- b2v97-19.jpg - (37 kb) N6DOK rests as the
second shift gets started.
- b2v97-21.jpg - (56 kb) A scanner lets us
monitor other channels, and the TNC lets us watch packet traffic
in the area as well.
- b2v97-22.jpg - (46 kb) Third shift already?
- b2v97-26.jpg - (78 kb) Sunday morning, in
New York, New York, Las Vegas.
- b2v97-30.jpg - (37 kb) The last turn into
home stretch and Finish Line.
- b2v97-31.jpg - (83 kb) N1NSY, KE6NVU and WD6CJK
wait for vans, to recover our gear.
- b2v97-32.jpg - (79 kb) Crossing the Finish Line
- b2v97-33.jpg - (70 kb) Team 17 crossing the
Finish Line.
- b2v97-35.jpg - (35 kb) Tearing down the
Las Vegas Command site and packing up.
- b2v97-36.jpg - (72 kb) It's a good thing we
labeled everything!
Images from our 1998 preparations
April '98 Tech Day
Fuzzy Mic-E Pictures
We have a few early pictures of the TAPR Mic-E
kits, with the Motorola On-Core GPS receiver option installed. Unfortunately,
the flash on the digital camera helped to blur the images. Until we can get
some more, better images, these will be a start.
- mice01.jpg - (17 kb) board with front panel
and GPS board
- mice02.jpg - (14 kb) left-side view
- mice03.jpg - (14 kb) rear-view, showing
connectors, without panel
- mice04.jpg - (12 kb) right-side view
- mice05.jpg - (17 kb) end-view of extruded
aluminum case
- mice13.jpg - (16 kb) board and GPS, without
any panels attached
Here are some clearer images, through the STORM photo scanner.
I you have other photos you would like us to post on this site, please send
an email message to
n6uow@baker2vegas.org.
If you can help us fill in callsigns on some of our trainees, we'd
like to hear from you as well.
Team Pages:
[The Core Group]
[Team Fremont]
[Alameda County S.O.]
Other Links:
[Wiring Overview]
[Tracker Packaging]
[Equipment Donations]
[mail the Staffing Mailbox]
with questions, fill out a [Volunteers Form],
to sign up, or view the [Headquarters Page].
Created by
David K. Z. Harris
(Copyright 1996, 1997).
N6UOW@baker2vegas.org
My pages are created on an Apple PowerBook DUO 230, using CLARIS HomePage
2.0 and Adobe PageMill 2.0 for page creation, CLARIS MacDraw Pro for
illustrations, and STORM Technologies EasyPhoto for JPEG images. We
also used the Kodak Photo Enhancer software, with the DC-40 and DC-50
cameras for the 1997 race images.